News archive


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!



ICHOM 2021 VIRTUAL LEARNING SERIES
21 April Workshop


17. April 2021
9. Symposium by Austrian Cleft Palate Craniofacial Association


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!