2015
Invited presentation at IEDM 2015 in Washington
BEL was invited to contribute to the Special Focus Session "Silicon-based Nano-devices for Detection of Biomolecules and Cell Function" at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) 2015 in Washington, USA.
BEL microtechnology published in "Nature Communications"
Micropillar arrays developed by BEL were used to study rounding forces of epithelial cells that undergo mitosis as recently published in Nature Communications.
InSphero co-founder Jan Lichtenberg receives Swiss entrepreneur award
InSphero co-founder Jan Lichtenberg honored as "2015 Swiss Emerging Entrepreneur" at Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2015 Award ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland.
Yet another BEL paper on title page of "Lab on a Chip"
Hanging-drop network photo associated with paper "Adding the ‘heart’ to hanging drop networks for microphysiological multi-tissue experiments" by S. Rismani, O. Frey et al. on title page of Lab on a Chip.
New BEL microtissue paper covered in "Chemistry World"
New BEL microtissue paper entitled "Adding the ‘heart’ to hanging drop networks for microphysiological multi-tissue experiments" in Lab on a Chip is covered in Chemistry World.
A. Hierlemann joins editorial board of "Microsystems & Nanoengineering" by NPG
A. Hierlemann joins editorial board of new journal "Microsystems & Nanoengineering", the first engineering journal with emphasis on fundamental research in MEMS and NEMS launched by Nature Publishing Group.
BEL microtissue research covered in SNF magazine "Horizons"
Microtissue research of the group of Olivier Frey was covered in an article entitled "An organ system on a chip" in the SNF research magazine Horizons.
A. Hierlemann on editorial advisory board of "ACS Sensors"
A. Hierlemann invited to join editorial advisory board of new journal "ACS Sensors" by the American Chemical Society.
Best Poster Award at "Transducers" to Patrick Misun
Patrick Misun received the "Best Poster Award" at the 18th International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems, Transducers, 2015 in Anchorage, Alaska.
BEL paper on title page of "Lab on a Chip"
CMOS chip photo associated with paper "High-resolution CMOS MEA platform to study neurons at subcellular, cellular, and network levels" by Jan Müller et al. on title page of Lab on a Chip.
BEL contributed to paper in "Nature Communications"
BEL high-density microelectrode array technology contributed to investigating how RNAs and RNA helicase control mouse retina architecture, published recently in Nature Communications.
BEL paper on title page of "IEEE Transactions of Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering"
Illustration of paper “Complexity Optimization and High-Throughput Low-Latency Hardware Implementation of a Multi-Electrode Spike-Sorting Algorithm” by Jelena Dragas et al. selected for title page of IEEE Transactions of Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering.
British NC3Rs award (£ 5000) to Olivier Frey and coworkers
A highly commended Award (£ 5000) in the 3Rs Prize competition 2014 of the British National Center for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research was granted to Olivier Frey and coworkers.
Invited evening session talk at ISSCC 2015, also covered in "EE Times"
BEL was invited to contribute to Evening Session "Brain-Machine Interfaces" at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2015 in San Francisco, USA. The session was also covered in EE Times.