Awards
Start-Up Pitch Award at BMT2022
Congratulations to Gian Schädli for winning the 2nd BMT Start-Up Pitch Session at the BMT 2022 conference (Joint Annual Conference of the Austrian, German and Swiss Societies for Biomedical Engineering).
ESB Travel Award for Julia Griesbach
Congratulations to Julia Griesbach, a doctoral candidate at the Laboratory for Bone Biomechanics, who was selected for a 2022 ESB Travel Award from the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB) for her abstract “Patient specific osteogenesis imperfecta bone organoids demonstrate increased tissue mineralization”.
2021 Global Undergraduate Award for Jenny Gehlen
Congratulations to Jenny Gehlen, who was selected as the Global Winner in the 2021 Global Undergraduate Award program for her Bachelor Thesis entitled "Functional Analysis of Volumetrically 3D Bioprinted Bone-like Tissues", which she conducted in the Laboratory for Bone Biomechanics at ETH Zurich with Dr. Xiao-Hua Qin as her advisor.
Acta Student Award for Jianhua Zhang
Congratulations to Dr. Jianhua Zhang, who was selected as the winner of an Acta Student Award for his primary contribution to the manuscript "Optimization of mechanical stiffness and cell density of 3D bioprinted cell-laden scaffolds improves extracellular matrix mineralization and cellular organization for bone tissue engineering", which was published last year in Acta Biomaterialia.
ETH Pioneer Fellowship
Thomas Zumbrunn has been awarded an ETH Pioneer Fellowship to develop his concept of a fracture-specific bone plate towards commercialisation. Congratulations Thomas!