Medizinische Fakultät

Universitätskliniken Inselspital

Department of Neurosurgery

Inselspital Bern

The Department of Neurosurgery is an internationally renowned clinic for surgical treatment of brain and spine diseases. Its clinical research commitment is driven by the need to improve and refine neurosurgical operations and perioperative management.

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Profile

  • Research profile: Focusing on improving and refining neurosurgical operations and perioperative management, we examine and test how to translate increasingly frequent emerging new technologies into neurosurgical practice. Another focus are clinical studies and trials to investigate different managements or treatments. In our laboratory of regenerative experimental medicine, we aim at the development and improvement of therapeutic strategies for neurodegenerative diseases.
  • Teaching profile: lectures and workshops for medical students, medical students' in-house rotations, co-organizers of the lecture series “Disease and Repair at the CNS” for master students of the gcb Bern. Mentoring for PhD students of the gcb and ghs Bern.

External Partners

Laboratory of Hemodynamic and Cardiovascular Technology, EPFL Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland; Schweizer Zentrum für Elektronik und Mikrotechnologie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland; Department of Neurosurgery, Freiburg University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany; Department of Neurobiology Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark; Department of Clinical Neurophysiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

Grants

  • Schweizerische Herzstiftung: Novel patient-specific cerebrovascular 4D surgical simulator
  • SNF Grant 3 years: HORAO – Polarimetric visualization of Healthy brain fiber tracts for tumor delineation during neurosurgery
  • SNF Grant 4 years: Early diagnosis and aetiology of critical illness myopathy
  • Krebsliga: Resurge – Randomized Controlled Comparative Phase II Trial on Surgery for Glioblastoma Recurrence