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Editor’s Pick in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine
We are very proud to share that the paper by Eva S. Peper and colleagues has been selected as an Editor’s Pick in the May 2026 issue of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine. “Pole-to-Pole 3D Radial Trajectory Designs Improve Image Quality and Quantitative Parametric Mapping in the Brain and Heart.” In this work, Eva and the…
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Medtech grant on women’s health for Jessica Bastiaansen
Our project Meno-FIT (Fitness, Imaging, Tracking) has been awarded a Bern Medtech Collaboration Call (BMCC) grant with CSEM. The team will combine low-cost home wearables with MRI-derived imaging biomarkers to predict changes in muscle health during perimenopause. The goal is a practical, clinic-ready tool that advances women’s health.
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Siemens IDEA user meeting: Best speaker award for Dr. Eva Peper
At this year’s Swiss Siemens IDEA User Meeting, researchers developing cutting-edge MRI technology shared their latest advances in image acquisition and reconstruction. The meeting took place at the ETHZ in Zuerich, Switzerland. Dr. Eva Peper presented her work on innovative strategies for MRI data sampling — and was honored with the Best Speaker Award, voted…
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Best Speaker Award for Jessica for the Practical MR Physics Course (ESMRMB)
Congratulations to Jessica Bastiaansen for receiving the Best Speaker Award for her lecture on “Fat Signal Suppression and Quantitative MRI” in the “Practical MR Physics E-Learning Course.” This is a recognition by the European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology for clear and engaging teaching! 🏆 Best Speaker Award – ESMRMB “Practical MR…
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Our work on 7T QSM & mapping was selected as Editor’s pick of October
The impressive work of Berk was selected as Editor’s Pick of the Month in October 2025. This is also the publication obtained in his PhD, and many more to follow. Congratulations!
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Great success at the Open Source MRI Sequence Programming Workshop
About 45 scientists from all over Europe gathered in Bern to learn and implement open source MRI sequences. Details on the workshop can be found here. The workshop was a great success, stay tuned for its follow-up in 2026.
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Guillaume Cheng wins the award for best MSc thesis in Biomedical Engineering
Guillaume Cheng won the award for the best MSc thesis “with an applied or technologically innovative focus“. The award is part of the Master program in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Bern. His MSc thesis was entitled “The Influence of Fat Suppression on Parametric Mapping in MRI”. The award ceremony will be on May 2nd…
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Our ORACLE paper was selected editor’s pick of April
Our work on elegant MRI techniques to extract quantitative information from the human brain was selected as editors’ pick in April. ORACLE: An analytical approach for T1, T2, proton density, and off-resonance mapping with phase-cycled balanced steady-state free precession. A huge congratulations to Nils Plähn for this amazing effort! What makes this exciting?– ORACLE delivers…
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Jessica gave a seminar at the WCMM in Lund
Jessica gave a seminar on MRI at the Wallenberg Center for Molecular Medicine in Lund, Sweden. Her talk was about the power and pitfalls of quantitative imaging across the body. One of the covered topics was how MRI is going to replace optical imaging, based on a recent publication in Science.
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Getting inspired at the FELS research day
The Female Empowerment in Life Sciences (FELS) network organized a research day on March 21st with an exciting program. This one day event focused on promoting and enhancing excellence in research. Our team participated and Berk presented a poster on his latest work on rapid cartilage imaging. Besides research, panel discussions were held on “How can…
