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Professor Marcy Zenobi-Wong, currently Associate Professor at ETH Zurich, has been promoted to Full Professor of Tissue Engineering and Biofabrication at the Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST). 

It is our pleasure to invite you to visit ETH-Hönggerberg for an afternoon of lab tours to learn about biotechnology – related research and innovation.

Xiang Li and Elias Bachmann (co-founders of ŒZuriMed') have successfully passed the second round of "Venturekick", precipitating a cash investment of 20'000 Swiss Francs seed funding.

It is a great pleasure to announce that Professor Van C. Mow will be holding a Special Guest Lecture with the title "Development of Bioengineering in the United States - A Historical Perspective".

It is with great pleasure that I can announce that Sandra Hofmann, who is currently a Group Leader at the Institute for Biomechanics and an Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology, has been awarded an ERC Starter Grant and almost at the same time a Marie Curie Career Integration Grant for her work on "Real-time monitoring of load induced remodeling in tissue-engineered bone". These awards come with a total research support of 1.6 million Euro.

We are pleased to announce that together with our collaborators at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, University of Iceland and the Icelandic Heart Association we have won a competition with our Ph.D. project proposal entitled: „What Predisposes a Hip to Fracture - A Retrospective FE Hip Fracture Study Based on the AGES-RS Data“.

Looking at the research portfolio of D-HEST there is a great potential for synergies.

It is our pleasure to inform you that two of our institute co-workers received awards at the recent Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (CMBBE) symposium (Berlin, 11 - 14 April 2012).

We are pleased to announce that starting in the Spring Semester 2012, the Institute for Biomechanics is now offering a Colloquium in Biomechanics.

In April 2010, the ETH Zurich Executive Board decided to unite professors from the areas of Food and Nutrition, Medical Engineering, Neurosciences as well as Movement Sciences and Sports into a new Department of Health Sciences and Technology (D-HEST).

We are pleased to announce that the Team Daniel Baumgartner, Georg Osterhoff, Clément M.L.Werner, Hans Gerber and Philippe Favre won the third Poster Prize from the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Biomechanik (DGfB) in Murnau (19.-21.Mai 2011). The award comes with a check of 250 Euro.

we are pleased to announce that Yannick Loosli has received a CCMX Matlife Student Travel Award (1’000 SFr.) for his work presented at the Gordon Research Conference on Biointerface Sciences, this week in Les Diablerets Switzerland (Sept 5-10, 2010).

We are pleased to inform you, that Rotavis, a team under the leadership of Daniel Baumgartner received an award of 3’500 CHF as finalists in the business plan competition Liechtenstein/Rheintal.

The Institute for Biomechanicsis is celebrating its twentieth anniversary on 29 October 2009

We are very happy to announce that Yannick Loosli was awarded the Student Poster Prize by the Swiss Society of Biomaterials at this year’s 2009 European Society of Biomaterials annual meeting in Lausanne.

It is our pleasure to announce that Guido Bartalena was awarded the “SJB Poster Award” at The Third Switzerland-Japan Workshop on Biomechanics 2009.

Our Institute organized The ‘Third Switzerland-Japan Workshop on Biomechanics’ (SJB 2009), which was held from 1-4 September 2009 in Engelberg, Switzerland (http://www.sjb2009.ethz.ch).

We are pleased to inform you that Samuel Basler and Christoph Schröter are this year’s winners of the Student Award of the Swiss Society for Biomedical Engineering.

The ETH Zurich is creating a new professorship in medical technology, which will be integrated in the Institute for Biomechanics.

It is a pleasure to announce that we are supported by the Wolfermann-Nägeli-Stiftung with CHF 145'00.00 for the Project titled "The role of inter-myofibril filaments on sarcomere dynamics".

Our Institute will be represented with the contribution about Lanzettfischchen at the exhibition in the railway station (HB) "Der Baum des Lebens: Vielfalt und Einheit", on 4th - 6th September, Zurich.

As a former fellow of the Institute for Biomechanics, we have the pleasure to announce that Dr. Marco Stampanoni, currently Head of the X-Ray Tomography Group at the Paul Scherrer Institut (PSI) in Villigen, has been elected as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of X-Ray Microscopy. We wish him all the best in his new function at the Institute for Biomedical Engineering.

The European Society of Biomechanics 2009 Workshop “Movement Biomechanics and Sport” will be organized by the Institute for Biomechanics.

Prof. Itai Bab is spending three months at the Institute as part of his sabbatical leave from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The third general meeting of the AO Clinical Priority Program: Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone (CPP FFOB) will be held in Zurich from March 28 to March 29, 2008.

The Council of the European Society of Biomechanics selected the Institute for Biomechanics to host the ESB 2009 Workshop in June of 2009.