August 2025

Steve Cook from the Women's and Children's Hospital in Adelaide, Australia, has joined us as a fellow surgeon and research fellow within our SNSF project, Learning based infant face and head model. Welcome!

July 2025

Prof. Dr. Alonso Nivaldo, PhD from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil has visited us for clinical and research exchange.

August 2024
Schweizerische Institut für ärztliche Weiter- und Fortbildung (SIWF) Award 
Prof. Andreas Müller has been awarded for his exceptional engagement in medical training. Former residents nominated him to express their  personal appreciation for his commitment to continuing medical education.

June 2024
Dr. Benito Benitez has been awarded a research funding from Geistlich-Stucki Foundation. Congratulations!

June 2024
Prof. Andreas Müller in an interview with Schweizer Illustrierte on "What parents need to know about cleft lip and palate".

May 2024 A collaborative work with our partners in Warsaw on delineating the cleft anatomy in unilateral cleft lip and palate can be now found online in JPRAS.

Welcome Kisanthan!
Kisanthan has joined our research group to work on his dissertation in dentistry. He is currently completing the master's degree at the Dental School in Basel.

April 2024
Our anatomical study on vascularization in palate with cleft, together with groups in Budapest, Ankara and at our DBM has been published.

European Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association Congress 2024 (June)

January 2024
Tobias Kunnappallil, Kisanthan Krishnapillai and their fellow dental students initiated "Smiles for Peru" to provide dental care and treatment to underserved communities in Peru. They have administered over 450 patients in collaboration with a local NGO!

28 November 2023
BRCCH seminar highlighting our joint project and featuring a guest speaker, Prof. David Chong from Royal Children's Hospital, Australia.
Prof. Andreas Müller's Talk: "Reducing the Burden in Cleft Care: The Knife is not Enough"

Treffpunkt Science City, ETH Zürich, 29 October 2023
Prof. Barbara Solenthaler discusses how advancement of technologies with artificial intelligence enable more and more realistic representation of the world; "How is a digital twin created?"

MICCAI-AMAI workshop 2023, Vancouver
Lasse Lingens at ETH Zürich receives best paper award for our collaborative work "Image-Based 3D Reconstruction of Cleft Lip and Palate Using a Learned Shape Prior".

Honorary Professorship for Prof. Andreas Mueller, October 2023
Prof. Andreas Mueller has been appointed Honorary Professor at Sree Balaji Medical College & Hospital, Bharath Institute of Higher Education & Research (BIHER) University, Chennai.

15 Sept. 2023
Benito Benitez gave an excellent presentation and successfully defended his PhD Thesis. Congratulations!

September 2023
Our publication on automated plate design for pre-surgical therapy has been featured by the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health.

DBE Research Day 2023

"Biomimetic treatment for inborn malformations"  by Prof. Andreas A. Müller
"AI & smartphone for 3D orofacial cleft reconstruction in low resource settings" by Dr. Prasad Nalabothu
"Data-driven 3D infant modeling for medical treatment and surgery planning" by Till Schnabel

June 2023 at IPCAI
Till Schnabel at ETH Zurich received “IPCAI Bench to Bedside award" and was the runner-up for "Best Presentation Award" for our collaborative work "Automated and data-driven plate computation for presurgical cleft lip and palate treatment". Congratulations!

2023
Dr. Prasad Nalabothu was awarded grant by the “Research Fund for Excellent Junior Researchers” from the University of Basel for CHF 80’000.  His research focuses on clinical application of artificial intelligence and smartphone-based 3D reconstruction for newborns with cleft lip and palate in low resource settings.

August 2022
Effort with our partner in Warsaw to implement intraoral scanners for newborns to pre-schoolers is published in JPRAS.

August 2022
Our collaborative work with the Print Lab to clinically implement a digital workflow to improve the care for our youngest patients has been published.

August 2022 Available online;
Evaluation of the effect of primary surgical technique on the growth studied at pre-schooler age.

Congratulations to Prasad for obtaining a Fellowship in Dental Surgery from Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow!

CLEFT 2022, Edinburgh (July 11-15)
Andreas presentation, "Digital Solutions for Burden-Reduced 3D Cleft Diagnosis and Presurgical Therapy" was awarded by CoCP a prize to recognize impactful research upon multi-disciplinary, team-based, and locally rooted cleft care in Low and Middle-Income Country, in addition, short-listed for Audit and Quality Improvement Prize. Congratulations!

Cover of the August 2022 Issue
The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal
"Histologic Aspect of the Curved Vomerine Mucosa in Cleft Lip and Palate"
Benito K. Benitez et al.

19-21 May, 2022

Andreas and Prasad attended the INDOCLEFTCON 2022 held in Kochi, India

February 2022 

Our case report on an orbital tumor in a newborn is published online in American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports; a collaborative work with our colleagues at USB and UKBB. 

February 2022

Laura Kiser tests the implementation of our newly designed and fabricated surgical trainer with our colleagues at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in Santiago.

Prof. Gosla Reddy in Hyderabad, India;  Sharing an inspiring story on health care and lives from our BRCCH project collaborator.

21 Nov. 2021, Treffpunkt Science City

We presented our BRCCH project at our booth within the autumn programme «Rich and poor» organized by ETH Zürich.

Oct. 2021

Together with our collaborators, Dr. Barbara Solenthaler and Prof. Dr. Markus Gross at the Computer Graphics Laboratory at ETH Zurich, Dr. Andreas Mueller has been awarded a research grant for a 4-year project by the Swiss National Science Foundation.

10 August 2021

MOU was signed between University Hospital Basel with Saveetha Medical College and Hospitals, as well as with Sri Ramachandra University.

3. August 2021
New cleft surgical technique published:
Continuous Circular Closure in One Surgery

2 August 2021
First successful prototype of open source cleft surgical simulator 

22 July 2021

Our publication on histological studies of the vomer is available online

We are pleased to announce the securing of SNF grant by team member Dr. Prasad Nalabothu. Congratulations!

17 June 2021
1st International Swiss-India webinar on primary cleft care in infants

11 June 2021
Matthias Ureel has received his Doctor in Medicine. Congratulations!

18 May 2021, Bern
Visit at the Indian embassy upon invitation from the Ambassador of India, Ms Monika Kapil Mohta.

7 May 2021
Congratulations – PhD candidate Benito Benitez has received a "get on track" funding from the University of Basel!

Our paper on CARLO® has been «most downloaded» in the 1. quarter of 2021 in European Journal!

16 April 2021
Warsaw-Swiss collaboration
Benito Benitez was invited at the Embassy of Switzerland in Poland with Andrzej Brudnicki of our partner, Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.

16 Feb. 2021
Prasad Nalabothu successfully defended his PhD Thesis. Congratulations!