Department for BioMedical Research

Forschungsgebäude an der Murtenstrasse 24 - 28

The DBMR is the Faculty’s research department in biomedicine. To bridge laboratory-based and biomedical patient-oriented clinical research, the DBMR promotes an integrative perspective to clinical research with a strong emphasis on developing translational approaches.

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Profile

  • Providing researchers from the Inselspital with an infrastructure to perform translational research
  • Facilitating scientific interactions and instrumentation for researchers
  • More than 100 groups of the Department are organized in 13 Research Programs and 12 Independent Research Labs
  • Teaching in the Programs Master of Biomedical Engineering, Master of Biomedical Sciences, Bachelor of Human Medicine, Graduate School of Cellular and Biomedical Science
  • Responsible for operating state-of-the-art technology core facilities that serve the broader research community of the University of Bern

External Partners

AlveoliX (CH), CSL Behring AG (CH), EPFL, Lausanne (CH), ETH Zurich (CH), HUG, Geneva University Hospital (CH), Novartis (CH), Roche (CH), RMS Foundation (CH), University of Basel, Basel (CH), University of Lausanne (CH), University of Zurich (CH), Catholic University of Louvain (BE), Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (DE), Technical University of Dresden (DE), Technical University of Munich (DE), Aarhus University (DK), The Institute of Gustav Roussy, Paris (FR), Erasmus University Medical Center (NL), Stanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (USA), Weil Cornell Medicine (USA), University of Connecticut (USA), The Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute (USA), Columbia University (USA), Yale University (USA), Genentech (USA), Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (Korea)

Grants

  • SNSF Sinergia: Understanding the role of immuno-metabolic imprinting for sustainable weight loss, PIs: Prof. Ziad Al Nabhani and Prof. Thomas Lutz (University of Zurich)
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative - Collaborative Pairs Pilot Project Grant: Impact of Altered Light Perception on Sleep in Alzheimer’s Disease, PIs: Prof. Antoine Adamantidis and Dr. Ludovic S. Mure (Inselspital)
  • SNSF Project: On the role of IL-1 in driving the dynamics of the germinal center reaction Grant Paul / Bachmann, PIs: Prof. Martin Bachmann and Dr. Paul Engeroff
  • SNSF Weave/Lead Agency: Fibre-based 3D implants from regenerated silk fibroin for intervertebral disc regeneration II (TeX-DisK), PIs: Prof. Benjamin Gantenbein and Prof. Michael Wöltje (Technical University of Dresden)
  • SNSF Spark: Identification and characterization of snRNA variants that are expressed in aggressive cancer, PI: Dr. Anke Augspach
  • Horizon Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network: Macrophage Targets for Metastatic Treatment (Mac4Me), Co-PI: Prof. Mark Rubin