Amith Kamath

ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research

The ARTORG is a Competence Center of the University of Bern and together with the Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, creates the medical technology hub of Switzerland's capital. In its unique constellation as an engineering department within a medical faculty, ARTORG has been delivering a decade of ambitious biomedical engineering research, teaching and development across a wide variety of clinical areas, today represented in eleven independent research groups: AI in Health and Nutrition AI in Medical Imaging Cardiovascular Engineering Image-guided Therapy Computational Bioengineering Gerontechnology and Rehabilitation Hearing Research Laboratory Motor Learning and Neurorehabilitation Musculoskeletal Biomechanics Organs-on-Chip Technologies Urogenital Engineering and our workshop: Mechanical Design and Production We leverage dedicated medical and technological expertise through close collaboration with our clinical partners and develop revolutionary approaches we translate into new medical devices. The bandwidth of our research ranges from answering novel clinical challenges to improving existing approaches and medical technology with competences from pure algorithmic developments across component and systems development all the way to clinical validation. ARTORG envisions to support society and its healthcare system for the challenges to come (demographic, economic, socio-cultural) by the enhancement and integration of novel technology, improving its availability for patients and medical indications and demonstrating its clinical benefit. We aim to create a powerful network of scientists with engineering and medical backgrounds with an awareness for mutual development possibilities: Engineers with expertise in clinical problems, workflow and methodologies and clinicians with curiosity and understanding of technological approaches. Together, both sides can and will create novel diagnosis and therapy solutions with real clinical impact.