2016
Raziyeh Bounik receives "Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV)" grant from SNF
Raziyeh Bounik received an Marie Heim-Vögtlin (MHV) PhD-student grant of 135'000 CHF for 2 years from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
FRMD7 paper picked for "Best of Neuron" selection 2015-2016
Neuron paper by K. Yonehara, M. Fiscella, A. Drinnenberg et al., titled "Congenital Nystagmus Gene FRMD7 is necessary for establishing a neuronal circuit asymmetry for direction selectivity" chosen for Best of Neuron selection 2015-2016.
BEL Spinoff MaxWell Biosystems cleared 2nd stage of "Venture Kick"
BEL spin-off company MaxWell Biosystems AG successfully cleared 2nd round of Venture Kick competition and received 20'000 CHF.
2016 International Global 3Rs Award ($ 5'000) to Olivier Frey and coworkers
2016 IQ Consortium and AAALAC Intemational Global 3Rs Award for region Europe to Olivier Frey and coworkers for their paper "3D spherical microtissues and microfluidic technology for multi-tissue experiments and analysis".
Swiss OphthAWARD 2016 to Michele Fiscella
Keysuke Yonehara, Michele Fiscella, and Antonia Drinnenberg received Swiss OphthAWARD in category "Best Experimental Work" at annual meeting of Swiss Society of Ophthalmology in Interlaken.
Felix Franke receives "Ambizione" grant from SNF
Felix Franke received an Ambizione grant of 583'000 CHF for 3 years from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Jan Müller, Urs Frey, Marie Obien, and Michele Fiscella cleared 1st stage of "Venture Kick"
Jan Müller, Urs Frey, Marie Obien, and Michele Fiscella successfully cleared 1st round of Venture Kick competition with new spin-off company MaxWell Biosystems AG and received 10'000 CHF.
BEL retina research work featured in SNSF magazine "Horizons"
Retina research work of M. Fiscella and F. Franke, recently published in Neuron, covered in an article "Cracking the brain’s code" in science magazine Horizons by Swiss National Science Foundation.
BEL paper on 3D microtissue spheroids selected as featured article in "Microsystems & Nanoengineering"
Article by P. Misun et al. entitled "Multi-analyte biosensor interface for real-time monitoring of 3D microtissue spheroids in hanging-drop networks" selected as "featured article" by the editor of NPG journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering.
Second ERC Advanced Grant for BEL
Andreas Hierlemann and BEL received second Advanced Grant (3.5 Mio Euro) from the European Research Council (ERC).
BEL EU-FP7-ICT-FET project listed in "Achievements of FP7 examples that make us proud"
BEL FP7-ICT-FET project "Body on a chip" (2012-2015) with partners InSphero AG (CH), KU Leuven (BE), Ifado Dortmund (D), Astra Zeneca (UK) listed as Swiss example in a brochure Achievements of FP7 examples that make us proud.
Third BEL Spinoff
Third BEL spinoff, Shift Devices AG, has been founded and markets first product.
New multifunctional CMOS microelectrode array presented at ISSCC 2016
New multi-functional microelectrode array system featuring 59’760 electrodes, 2048 electrophysiology channels, impedance, and neurotransmitter measurement units was presented at International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) 2016 in San Francisco.
2016 IEEE "Robert Bosch micro and nano electro mechanical systems award" to Henry Baltes
"Robert Bosch Micro and Nano Electro Mechanical Systems Award" by the IEEE Electron Devices Society given to former head of PEL and BSSE founding professor Henry Baltes.
Paper on neural correlation and coding in "Neuron"
High-density microelectrode arrays were used to study structures of neural correlation in the retina and how these correlations influence coding. The results were published in Neuron.