2021

A. Hierlemann selected as one of the three finalists for this year’s Art of Leadership Award (ALEA) at ETH Zurich. For the final, a video portrait of the BEL group was produced.

BEL PhD student Jihyun Lee and her research project within the Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT) initiative featured on the "Meet the researchers" website of PHRT.

Best poster award for freshman PhD student Jana Petr at Agora Workshop Organoids in cancer research in Lausanne, Switzerland

BEL team including PhD students, postdocs and employees participated in the SOLA Basel, a relay running race of a total of 80 km, divided into 10 stages of between 4.3 and 12.3 km distance.

Julia Boss featured today on Youtube within the initiative "NCCR Women" of the Swiss National Science Foundation to celebrate the 50th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote in Switzerland.

BEL spinoff, MaxWell Biosystems AG, founded 2016, reached rank 52 in the Swiss Top 100 Startup Competition 2021. MaxWell was listed as Biotech company.

Augmented cell culture test to detect substances that are directly or indirectly harmful to embryos, which includes a combination of placental and embryonic tissue developed and published in Advanced Biology. Applications include the testing of new drugs and chemicals.

Oldest BEL spinoff Zurich Instruments, founded in 2008 and grown into a company with over 100 employees, was acquired by Rohde & Schwarz, a German technology group headquartered in Munich.

BEL PhD student Furkan Gökce and his research project within the Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT) initiative featured on the "Meet the researchers" website of PHRT.

Scanning-electron-microscopy image of cortical neurons on high-density-microelectrode CMOS chips, colored by Martin Oeggerli, reprinted in the German newspaper "Die Zeit".

System and circuitry details of the new dual-mode high-density microelectrode array system published in the IEEE flagship Journal of solid-state circuits.

We used high-density microelectrode-arrays (HD-MEAs) to study physiology of healthy and diseased human induced pluripotent-stem-cell-derived neurons across scales, from network through single-neuron to subcellular features.

ETH Globe magazine features our recent technological advances in developing high-density dual-mode microelectrode-​array chips that enable simultaneous recordings from significantly more electrodes than previous systems.