04.12.2025 | DextEgg
Making hand therapy entertaining so that patients want to continue practicing at home – Samuel Knobel is realizing this vision with an egg-shaped training device and accompanying tablet software. His greatest motivation is to help people regain the dexterity they need for activities of daily living.
13.11.2025 | Immune Therapy for Fungal Sepsis
A breakthrough discovery during her PhD has motivated Hang Gander-Bui to develop a drug compound that could become a game-changer in combatting fungal sepsis. Instead of fighting the fungus, she plans to reset the body’s own immune system to fend off the deadly infection.
27.10.2025 | Aikeso
Hanspeter Hess aims to improve the treatment of shoulder injuries using AI-supported (medical) image analysis. In addition to resolving specific tricky problems at his PC, the biomedical engineer appreciates balancing his work with time in the mountains.
02.09.2025 | Boat2Bag
Last season, Boat2Bag collected almost three tons of raw material from the waste dump on the Aare specifically for rubber boats, corresponding to around 150 boats. Elmo Francis and Yannick Käser are tackling the ecological problems caused by “Aareböötlen” by upcycling the discarded boats into stylish bags.
24.04.2025 | Tastetomics
The food industry ranks among the world’s largest – and it's within this dynamic sector that UniBE Venture Fellow Daniel Batora aims to establish his project.
20.03.2025 | Eldian Biomed
UniBE Venture Fellow Gregor Bordon has a multifaceted career background. Now he is tackling one of the most prevalent health conditions – with tiny “clouds”.
09.01.2025 | Florence Aellen
Florence Aellen is using her strong analytical background to develop a specific AI application for medicine with her UniBE Venture Fellowship.
05.12.2024 | CleanStent
Cornel Dillinger has been working on a novel technology at ETH Zurich to move mini robots during surgery. Now, as a UniBE Venture Fellow, he is using his research knowledge to improve the quality of life for patients with ureteral strictures.
06.05.2024 | Grinsight
Fabian Guignard and his company Grinsight are developing a tool for variety recommendations in wheat cultivation during his Venture Fellowship. Climate change and a growing world population are putting increasing pressure on grain production.
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29.04.2024 | kerAccurate
Keratoconus is a progressive eye disease that can lead to blindness. During his Venture Fellowship Miguel Ariza is developing a new treatment method at the ARTORG that will help eye surgeons to better treat those affected.
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16.04.2024 | The third cohort of UniBE Venture Fellows
Four new scientists have been selected for the UniBE Venture Fellowship 2024. Their projects focus on predicting the outcome of coma, enhancing taste in food, treating the most prevalent type of arthritis and increasing the longevity of ureteral stents.
08.04.2024 | Metastasis Risk Predictor
In her Venture Fellowship project, Soheila Zeinali is developing an innovative technology to help predict the risk of cancer metastases. With the help of special models, she is able to analyze the behaviour of tumour cells and thus create a basis for better treatment decisions.
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18.01.2024 | Aquiliv
With Aquiliv, Nicolas Melin is developing a new and innovative precision therapy for liver cell cancer during his Venture Fellowship project. The aim is to significantly enhance the effectiveness of highly burdensome immunotherapies, and thereby improve the chances of survival of patients.
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09.10.2023 | Unchain Your Mind
In this interview, co-founders Corinna Rutschi and Vanessa Warncke explain how Unchain Your Mind promotes dialog about technology and makes complex topics understandable for a broad audience. The idea was born after their respective Master's degrees.
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02.06.2023 | Venture Fellowships enter the second round
New therapies against liver cancer and corneal diseases, a tumor-on-chip technology for drug testing, and an AI-based tool for farmers: these are the innovation projects that have been selected for the second round of the Venture Fellowship Program at the University of Bern.
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06.04.2023 | SurgeonsLab
Uniaktuell article on the world's first 4D neurosurgery simulation workshop with the simulation platform from SurgeonsLab. With realistic models of dilated cerebral arteries, a new training standard is to be established to increase patient safety.
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17.02.2023 | Santella
“As a researcher, I remain cautious” - UniBE Venture Fellow Olivier Schären talks in an interview about the differences between science and entrepreneurship. With the start-up Santella, he is developing a novel vaccine against one of the world's most harmful poultry diseases.
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