May 28th 2026

Advancing paediatric health by innovative digital and cellular-based solutions

 

The Basel Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) welcomes you to this special event on May 28, 2026 in Basel (Switzerland). Under the theme “Advancing paediatric health by innovative digital and cellular-based solutions”, we will explore the latest breakthroughs on digital health and molecular medicine designed to improve the well-being of children and adolescents.

With a multidisciplinary programme and 12 national and international speakers, this free-of-cost event aims to foster critical dialogue among  clinicians, molecular biologists, computational engineers and public health experts to propel the future of paediatric research.

When: Thursday, 28 May 2026, 8:00 - 18:00 CET, to be followed by an apéro

Where:  Hotel ODELYA, Missionstrasse 21a, 4055 Basel (Switzerland)

In Person Registration: HERE   Registration to this event is free.

Schedule:

    • 8.00-8.30 – Registration and coffee
    • 8.30-8.45 – Welcome by BRCCH Directors
    • 8.45-10.15 – Session 1
    • 10:15-10:45 – Coffee break
    • 10:45-12:15 – Session 2
    • 12.15-13.15 – Lunch break
    • 13.15-14.45 – Session 3
    • 14.45-15:15 – Coffee break
    • 15:15-16:45 – Session 4
    • 16:45-17:30 – Panel Discussion
    • 17:30-17:35 – Closing remarks by BRCCH Directors
    • 17.35-18.00 – Apéro

Scientific Programme:

Session I:  Innovative Cellular-based Methods for Personalized Medicine

    • Burcu Tepekule (University of Basel)

      "Early-Life Microbiome, Immune Imprinting, and Pediatric Health: An Integrative Modeling Approach"

    • Emma Slack (BIIE)

      "Engineering the gut microbiome to prevent childhood infections and disease"

    • Chase Beisel (BIIE)

      "Harnessing bacterial defenses for medical diagnostics and therapeutics"

Session II: Machine Learning-driven Solutions for the Management of Paediatric Diseases

    • Mary-Anne Hartley (EPFL)

      TBA

    • Andreas Müller & Barbara Solenthaler (University of Basel / ETH Zurich)

      "Advancing Accessible Cleft Care: Achievements from AI-Driven Planning, Reconstruction, and Clinical Assessment"

    • Sara Brüningk (University of Bern)

      "Mechanistic learning to model spatio-temporal tumor growth in pediatric diffuse midline glioma"

Session III: Early Child-Development and Digital Interventions

    • Kirsty Donald (University of Cape Town)

      "Risk and Resilience: Using scalable technology to understand brain health in early life"

    • Günther Fink (Swiss TPH)

      "Digital Support Systems to Improve Child Development in Peru: Results from a Cluster-Randomized Controlled Open Label Trial"

    • Melissa McCradden (University of Adelaide)

      "Artificial intelligence through the eyes of youth: how young peoples' perspectives can help us build better AI"

Session IV: Multimodal Data and Body-based Wearables to Advance Paediatric Research

    • Michael Moore (ETH Zurich)

      "Towards medical AI agents"

    • Randall Platt (ETH Zurich)

      "A fantastic voyage towards intestinal diagnostics"

    • Noe Brasier (ETH Zurich)

      "Toward sweat analysis by wearable devices for clinical medicine – A translational journey"

Panel Discussion

    • Invited Speakers, BRCCH Directors and Audience

 

 

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