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| 2012/05/11 |
The first "D-HEST Research Day" Looking at the research portfolio of D-HEST there is a great potential for synergies. The new department strives to center its activities around human health and pursues a translational, systemic research approach aimed at quickly transferring the results obtained to applications with a strong societal impact. Therefore the first "D-HEST Research Day" will take place on 4 June 2012. |
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| 2012/05/04 |
Swiss Society for Biomaterials Award 2012 It is our pleasure to inform you that Yannick Loosli received the award for Best Student Presentation at the 18th Annual Swiss Society for Biomaterials meeting. His work was titled " A maturation thresholding process regulates cell adhesion at the distal lamellum". |
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| 2012/04/16 |
Taylor and Francis Prize 2012 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). Giacomo Marini received the poster award for his work "An Algorithm for Modeling the Fiber Distribution of the Annulus Fibrosus within Arbitrarily-Aligned Meshes". René Widmer received the award for best presentation in CMBBE for his work "Patient-Specific Modelling of Vertebroplasty: How Can We Optimize the Outcome of the Treatment?" |
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| 2012/01/18 |
NEW: Colloquium in Biomechanics We are pleased to announce that starting in the Spring Semester 2012, the Institute for Biomechanics is now offering a Colloquium in Biomechanics. Current research topics in biomechanics will be presented by speakers from academia and industry. Interested students are invited to come to the lecture and it carries 2 ECTS points for those presenting. more |
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| 2012/01/3 |
Change from D-MAVT to D-HEST 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). This department was officially inaugurated in January 2012, and the Institute for Biomechanics is very pleased to be a component of the new department. more |
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| 2011/11/14 |
ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis We are pleased to inform you that Friederike Schulte was awarded with the ETH Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis. The ETH Medal is given every year to the 8% best theses awarded at ETH Zurich. The Rector will hand over a Certificate and the Medal in an official ceremony on 13 January 2012 together with all the other medalists. |
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| 2011/08/23 |
Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering Research Award 2011 We are pleased to announce that Philippe Favre received the Swiss Society of Biomedical Engineering Research Award at the annual meeting of the SSBE in Bern Switzerland (August 22, 2011). The award was given for his outstanding PhD dissertation (“A model to study active shoulder motion and stability”), and was accompanied by a prize of 1000 SFr. |
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| 2011/07/06 |
Scholarship, Summer School on Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine We are pleased to inform you that Luc Nimeskern, a doctoral student at the Institute for Biomechanics, received a scholarship to attend the Summer School on Biomaterials and Regenerative Medicine in Riva del Garda, Italy. The scholarship comes with an award prize of 400 Euro sponsored by the European Institute of Excellence on Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and TERMIS-EU. |
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| 2011/07/03 |
TOPEA Best Presentation Award We are pleased to inform you that Laura Nebuloni, a doctoral student at the Institute for Biomechanics, received the Best Presentation Award at the 2nd TOPEA Meeting held in Barcelona, Spain. The award was based on her presentation entitled “A new imaging method for the in vivo assessment of angiogenesis using time-lapsed contrast-enhanced micro-computed tomography”. |
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| 2011/07/01 |
European Doctoral Award 2011 We are pleased to inform you that Dr. Benjamin Thimm from the Institute for Biomechanics received the European Doctoral Award of the European Society of Biomaterials for his thesis entitled "The importance of multi-modality imaging for the assessment of combined bone and vascular tissue engineering". The award will be presented to him later this year in September at the 24th European Conference on Biomaterials, which will be taking place in Dublin, Ireland. |
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| 2011/06/29 |
Appointment to Associate Professor for Orthopaedic Biomechanics The Institute for Biomechanics would like to congratulate Jess Snedecker on his appointment as Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Biomechanics at the University of Zurich (dual Professorship with ETH Zurich). We are looking forward to a continued successful collaboration. |
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| 2011/05/25 |
Poster Prize 2011 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. |
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| 2011/05/26 |
The Antarctica Service Medal of the United States Award Dr. Dr. Silvio Lorenzetti, a senior research associate at the Institute for Biomechanics, has been awarded the Antarctica Service Medal of the United States of America presented by the National Science Foundation for his service in Antarctica and in recognition of his valuable contributions to exploration and scientific achievement under the U.S. Antarctic Program. more |
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| 2011/05/23 |
International Society of Biomechanics Award 2011 We are pleased to inform you that Dr. Renate List from the Institute for Biomechanics received the International Society of Biomechanics Award 2011 presented at the 7th Annual Meeting of the German Society of Biomechanics in Murnau, Germany. |
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| 2011/03/07 |
Election to Professor of Biomechanics The Institute for Biomechanics would like to congratulate Stephen Ferguson on his election to Professor of Biomechanics through the ETH Rat and with that to officially welcome him at the Institute. We are looking forward to working with him here at ETH Zurich starting 1 July 2011. |
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| 2011/02/14 |
ISB Student Dissertation Award We are pleased to inform you that Roberto Carretta received an ISB Student Dissertation Award from the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB), which comes with a check of 2500 US Dollars. |
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| 2010/12/20 |
Internship Merit Award We are pleased to inform you that Rachel Sondergaard received the Merit Award as the best intern in mechanical engineering from the University of Calgary Schulich School of Engineering. The award was based on her achievements during last year’s placement here at the Institute for Biomechanics and comes with a money prize and a silver plaque. More information can be found here: http://www.schulich.ucalgary.ca/internship/ |
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| 2010/11/29 |
KPMG’s Inspiration Grant It is my great pleasure to announce that PD Dr. Jörg Goldhahn and Zach Lerner have won the KPMG’s Inspiration Grant for their research project entitled “Early Recognition of Malfunctions in Joint Prostheses”. The award comes with a check of 100,000 Swiss Francs. |
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| 2010/11/1 |
Treffpunkt SCIENCE City: „Gesundheit - wie erhalten wir sie?" Das Institut für Biomechanik beteiligt sich am Treffpunkt SCIENCE City: „Gesundheit - wie erhalten wir sie?" Kurzvorlesung "gesund schütteln" von Prof. R. Müller, 14. Nov. 2010 und einen Testparcours "wie bewege ich mich?" mit Dr. H. Gerber und Dr. Silvio Lorenzetti, 5. Dez. 2010, HCI D 355. |
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| 2010/10/14 |
BMT Student Award 2010 We are pleased to announce that Silke Wüst won the the first prize for publication and presentation from BMT. The presentation was held as part of the 44. DGBMT Jahrestagung in Rostock. The award comes with a check of 1000 Euro. |
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| 2010/09/08 |
CCMX Matlife Student Travel Award 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). |
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| 2010/07/03 |
ESB Student Award 2010 We are pleased to inform you that Friederike Schulte received the 2010 ESB Student Award from the European Society of Biomechanics (ESB), which comes with a check of 1000 Euro. At the same meeting, Andreas Wirth received the ESB Student Runner-up Award, which comes with a check of 250 Euro. |
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| 2010/07/03 |
SSB Best Student Oral Presentation Award I am pleased to inform you that Andreas Wirth won the Best Student Oral Presentation Award from the Swiss Society for Biomaterials. The presentation was held as part of the 18th European Conference on Orthopaedics that took place in Davos. The award comes with a check of 500 Swiss Francs. |
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| 2010/06/18 |
De-Vigier-Preis 2010 Congratulations to Pearltec, Thomas Müller and Patrizia Fischer, for winning the 2010 De-Vigier-Preis! The award comes with a check of 100'000 Swiss Francs. |
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| 2010/06/16 |
Business plan Award 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 business plan outlines the development of office chairs which will reduce muscle hardening by mobilizing the spine through a novel, dynamic mechanism. |
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| 2010/04/22 |
ECTS Travel Award 2010 I am pleased to inform you that Floor Lambers was selected for a 2010 ECTS Travel Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS), which each comes with a check of 250 Euro. Congratulations to Floor for the honor! |
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| 2010/04/15 |
IOF SERVIER Young Investigator Research Award 2010 I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Davide Ruffoni also received the 2010 IOF SERVIER Young Investigator Research Award from the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF). The award comes with a check of 20,000 Euro and will be presented to him at the IOF World Congress on Osteoporosis in Florence in May 2010. |
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| 2010/03/15 |
ECTS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award 2010 I am pleased to inform you that Dr. Davide Ruffoni received the 2010 ECTS Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for his proposal on in vivo monitoring of implant osseointegration and anchorage in healthy and osteoporotic bone from the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS). The award comes with a check of 60,000 Euro and will be presented to him at the annual ECTS meeting in Glasgow this June. |
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| 2010/03/03 |
ECTS New Investigator Award 2010 We are pleased to inform you that Friederike Schulte received the 2010 ECTS New Investigator Award for her work on mechanostat theory from the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS), which comes with a check of 750 Euro. |
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| 2009/11/18 |
Election It is our great pleasure to announce that Jörg Goldhahn has been elected to the Committee of Scientific Advisors of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, which is a very prestigious group of people that are active in osteoporosis research and policy world-wide. You can find more information here: http://www.iofbonehealth.org/about-iof/the-organization/committee-of-scientific-advisors-csa.html |
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| 2009/10/29 |
The Institute for Biomechanicsis is celebrating its twentieth anniversary on 29 October 2009 We are taking this opportunity to celebrate with representatives from the ETH and University of Zurich, the Department of mechanical and Precess Engineering, and of course the Institute itself, past and present on the 29th October 2009. The afternoon will include a review of the past, the technical and scientific development of the Institute over the years, and the future direction and goals. It will be rounded off with an apéro. |
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| 2009/09/29 |
New representative in the working group research of ESK The assembly of the Federal Sport Committee (ESK) has elected Silvio Lorenzetti, as representative of ETH Zurich, into the working group research. This group evaluates as a board of experts, assisted by external expertise, the received research proposal and gives a recommendation to the ESK. |
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| 2009/09/19 |
SSB 2009 Student Award 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 (http://www.esb2009.org/). |
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| 2009/09/07 |
SGO Award 2009 We are very happy to announce that Philippe Favre was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the 2009 annual meeting of the Swiss Society of Orthopedic Surgeons (www.sgosso.ch). The annual meeting of the SGO is the most important Swiss meeting for orthopedic clinician scientists. |
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| 2009/09/07 |
SJB Award 2009 It is our pleasure to announce that Guido Bartalena was awarded the “SJB Poster Award” at The Third Switzerland-Japan Workshop on Biomechanics 2009 (http://www.sjb2009.ethz.ch/). |
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| 2009/09/07 |
SJB 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). The Workshop was dedicated to the theme “Biomechanical Imaging: from Nano to Macro”. SJB 2009 brought together roughly 100 actively participating scientists and industry representatives from Japan and Switzerland and strengthened the relationship between the two countries’ biomechanics and bioimaging communities for future advancement in the life sciences. In particular, the Workshop gave an in depth overview of recent progress in the quantitative description, modeling and simulation of biomechanical processes driven by novel bioimaging approaches. |
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| 2009/08/28 |
SSBE Student Award 2009 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. They have received this prize in recognition of their joint work on "Automation and validation of a biomechanical testing device for image-guided failure assessment of bone-implant systems". |
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| 2009/07/15 |
New Professorship The ETH Zurich is creating a new professorship in medical technology, which will be integrated in the Institute for Biomechanics. The professorship is to develop orthopaedic technologies and work closely with the research group of Schulthess Clinic Zurich. The professorship will be be financed by a figure of ten million Swiss francs donated to ETH Zurich Foundation by a private foundation. More: www.ethlife.ethz.ch/archive_articles/090716_interview_medizintechnik_mm/index |
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| 2009/07/07 |
Investigator Poster Award We are pleased to inform you that Renate List from the Institute for Biomechanics received the Young Investigator Poster Award of the International Society of Biomechanics (ISB) presented at the XXII Congress of the International Society of Biomechanics held in Cape Town, South Africa. |
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| 2009/06/03 |
Young Investigator Award We are pleased to inform you that Dr. Philipp Schneider from the Institute for Biomechanics received the Young Investigator Award of the International Society of Bone Morphometry (ISBM) for his abstract entitled "The cortical canal network is a strong predictor for bone microdamage" presented at the XIth ISBM World Congress held in Zell am See, Austria. |
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| 2009/05/13 |
New Project 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". |
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| 2009/05/06 |
Exhibition 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. |
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| 2009/04/23 |
ECTS Travel Award We are pleased to inform you that Floor Lambers and Friederike Gerhard were each selected for a 2009 ECTS Travel Award from the European Calcified Tissue Society (ECTS), which each comes with a check of 250 Euro. Congratulations to Floor and Friederike for the honor! |
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| 2009/04/14 |
Appointment The open access journal BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders appointed Jörg Goldhahn, ETH Zurich, as an Associate Editor. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders is one of very few open access journals in musculoskeletal and associated disorders. It has an impact factor of 1.32 which has shown a steady increase since the first impact factor was released in 2004. It is one of the first journals within the BMC series that will be requesting input from Associate Editors at crucial stages during the peer review process, such as assessing the subject matter and quality of new submissions. Journal homepage: http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcmusculoskeletdisord |
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| 2009/03/31 |
Venture kick Pearltec AG develops medical devices to prevent patients from moving during medical imaging (MRI, CT). The team consisting of Patrizia Fischer (CEO), Thomas Müller (CTO), Mario Schmuziger (President) and Prof. Ralph Müller from the Institute for Biomechanics uses patented technology developed at ETH Zurich that leads to improved image quality, higher reproducibility and increased patient safety. Pearltec has now been selected for support by venture kick (stage 3) and received a grant of CHF 100’000 to test its idea on the market. |
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| 2009/03/05 |
Introductory lecture Jörg Goldhahn will held his introductory lecture due to the venia legendi at ETH on Tuesday, 10.3.2009. The presentation will start 5.15 p.m. at the Semper-Aula (ETH main building) followed by a welcome reception. The lecture entitled “Verkalken – aber an der richtigen Stelle. Frakturversorgung im Alter“ will be given in German. |
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| 2008/07/08 |
New Professor We would like to welcome Prof. Jess Snedeker and his group to the Institute for Biomechanics. He is an Assistant Professor for Orthopaedic Biomechanics at the University of Zurich and now has also been elected as an Assistant Professor for the same area at ETH Zurich (joint chair ETH Zurich/University of Zurich). |
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| 2008/07/03 |
ESB Student Award Dr. Philipp Schneider at the Institute for Biomechanics was awarded the ESB Student Award 2008 from the European Society of Biomechanics at their biennial meeting in Lucerne. The award comes with the prize money of 1000 Euro and is given away every two years to the first ranked abstract and presentation of a doctoral student. |
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| 2008/06/04 |
Venia Legendi As a fellow of the Institute for Biomechanics, we have the pleasure to announce that Dr. Jörg Goldhahn has just received his Venia Legendi (Privatdozent, PD) from ETH Zurich. His teaching duties will be dedicated to the program of human movement sciences at the Department of Biology. |
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| 2008/06/02 |
Retirement Professor Edgar Stüssi has retired in his function as the Director of the Institute for Biomechanics and a Professor of Biomechanics at ETH Zurich, but will continue to be involved in various scientific projects. The Institute would like to thank him for his many contributions and energy during the last 27 years to building a successful Institute. He is succeeded by Professor Ralph Müller, who has joined the Institute in October 2006 and has now assumed the role of Director. |
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| 2008/05/30 |
Promotion 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. |
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| 2008/04/17 |
ESB 2009 Workshop The European Society of Biomechanics 2009 Workshop “Movement Biomechanics and Sport” will be organized by the Institute for Biomechanics. The three-day meeting will be held from Sunday to Tuesday (June 7-9, 2009) here at ETH Zurich located at the Science City Campus. Further information can be found here . |
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| 2008/04/01 |
Visiting Professor Prof. Itai Bab is spending three months at the Institute as part of his sabbatical leave from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. |
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| 2008/03/28 |
3rd General AO-Meeting “Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone” 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 goal of the two day meeting is the exchange of information about the goals reached in individual projects over the preceding year, as well as to set the objectives for the year to come. The CPP FFOB Program currently consists of 12 projects which offer a comprehensive overview of the treatment of geriatric fractures. |
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| 2008/03/21 |
Publication Award Dr. Philipp Schneider was awarded the 2008 Publication Award by the German Acadamy of Osteological and Rheumatological Sciences (DAdorW). The prize is endowed with 2500 Euro and is given to the scientist with the best publication of the year in the area of expertise osteology and rheumatology in German speaking countries. |
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| 2008/02/04 |
ESB 2009 Workshop The Council of the European Society of Biomechanics selected the Institute for Biomechanics to host the ESB 2009 Workshop in June of 2009. |
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