CIBM is proud to announce the recent academic promotions of three of its Section Heads, recognising their outstanding contributions to biomedical imaging research, scientific leadership, and academic excellence across our partner institutions. Dr. Meritxell Bach Cuadra promoted to Associate Professor … Read More
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MAGNETOM Cima.X MRI Inauguration Symposium at HUG: A New Era for Precision Imaging
The Geneva University Hospital (HUG) Radiology Department and the CIBM celebrated a major milestone in biomedical imaging with the inauguration of the MAGNETOM Cima.X high-gradient MRI at HUG. This state-of-the-art scanner, one of the first ultra-high-gradient MRIs (200 mT/m) installed … Read More
CIBM Core and Affiliated Researchers Secure Competitive SNSF Funding for Four New Projects in 2025
CIBM is pleased to announce that several of its researchers have secured funding through the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), with one project supported by the SNSF Spark scheme and three by SNSF Project Funding. These newly funded initiatives amount … Read More
Medical imaging and AI: a triple collective success at MICCAI 2025
Researchers from the CHUV Department of Radiology, the Faculty of Biology and Medicine at UNIL, and members of the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging have won three artificial intelligence competitions in medical imaging at the MICCAI 2025 international conference in … Read More
Astronomical pride for CIBM – Dr. Raphaël Liégeois selected as career astronaut of ESA 2022 Class
“Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them” is Dr. Raphaël Liégeois’ favourite quote from Oscar Wilde. Biomedical engineer, physicist, neuroscientist, aviation enthusiast, and now career astronaut, Raphaël could not demonstrate in a more … Read More
Arrival of the full body Siemens Healthineers MAGNETOM Terra 7 Tesla MRI scanner at the Campus Biotech Geneva
On June 21, 2022, the latest Siemens Healthineers MAGNETOM Terra 7T MRI scanner arrived at Campus Biotech in Geneva through an undertaking between Fondation Campus Biotech Geneva (FCBG), the CIBM Center for Biomedical Imaging and its common founding partner institutions: … Read More
CIBM inauguration of the newly installed 3T MRI scanner at the BBL
On June 1, 2022, following the annual BBL-CIBM-FCBG Research Day, an on-site inauguration of a MAGNETOM Prisma Fit 3T MRI scanner took place at the University Medical Center in Geneva gathering over 100 attendees. The ceremony was opened by Dr. … Read More
Meet two new members in CIBM’s Leadership team
Meet two new CIBM Section Heads: Prof. Patrik Vuilleumier, UNIGE who is now leading the newly created CIBM MRI UNIGE Cognitive and Affective Neuroimaging section and Prof. Valentina Garibotto who is now leading the CIBM PET HUG UNIGE Molecular Imaging … Read More
CIBM featured in new Netflix series
The Netflix series, Babies, features ground-breaking science developed by CIBM and other neuroscience centers and reveals how infants develop during their very first year. Professor Micah Murray, whose work is highlighted in the documentary, is Head of CIBM EEG CHUV-UNIL … Read More
Spotlight: 2020 Journal of Neuroimaging Top Five Cited Articles
2020 started with the Journal for Neuroimaging’s recognition campaign of their well-received top five cited authors from the past two years. The article “Clinical Neuroimaging Using 7 T MRI: Challenges and Prospects” by Maria Isabel Vargas, Pascal Martelli, Lijing Xin, … Read More
Spotlight: December 2019 Magnetic Resonance in Medicine Editor’s Pick
The paper “An automated approach to fully self-gated free-running cardiac and respiratory motion-resolved 5D whole-heart MRI” by Lorenzo Di Sopra, Davide Piccini, Simone Coppo, Matthias Stuber (CIBM), and Jérôme Yerly (CIBM) was selected as Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (MRM) Editor’s … Read More