Research Day 2025

For organization and catering purposes, please register by October 22 2025

Join us for an exciting day filled with new impressions, insights, and interesting discussions! The day will feature short presentations and poster sessions of projects from UKBB research groups, including a dedicated session for Master’s students. As always, awards will be given to the most outstanding contributions.

Several major talks will highlight the variety of our current research portfolio ranging from basic sciences over translational research to sophisticated clinical studies.

To conclude the day, we invite you to join us for an Apéro Riche, providing a great opportunity to network with other attendees and to review the day in a relaxing atmosphere.

The detailed program will be announced in time. We look forward to your participation!

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Prof. Julia Bielicki, UKBB Research Group Leader, Clinical Lead PRC
Trial ready? Designing smarter interventional studies for children and families

9.20
Kira Barlow
Preclinical use of isothermal microcalorimetry for drug-resistance
testing in patient-derived 3D osteosarcoma culture: exemplified on doxorubicin

9.30
Maria Giulia Conti
Susceptibility to respiratory disease in infants born prematurely: Persistent inflammation, or lung functional impairment?

9.40
Salomé Dumasdelage
Can an existing pediatric, physiologically-based predicted pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model for cefepime be used for extrapolation to younger infants?

9.50
Piotr Jasko
Neuroblastoma-derived giant plasma membrane vesicles (GPMVs)

10.00
Danielle Kundert
Virtual Reality vs 3D-printed models for pediatric alveolar cleft planning: A prospective pilot study

10.10
Chiara Minotti
Pool-testing for antibiotic resistant colonisation surveillance in neonatal units

10.20
Michèle Roth
Protein profiles of young children with IgE-mediated food allergy

10.30
Coffee Break Foyer

11.00
Nathanael Barth
Influence of sociocultural factors on the diabetes treatment of children with type 1 diabetes at UKBB

11.08
Jennifer Bünger
Characterization of aura symptoms in children with migraine

11.16
Tabea Eichler: Posterior urethral valves – Age-related differences in clinical presentation at UKBB

11.24
Marlis Matter: Between support, responsibility and letting go – Parents’ perspectives on transition in rheumatology

11.32
Gabriele Preziosi: A systematic review of adverse events associated with Oral mmunotherapy (OIT) for peanut and tree nut allergies

11.40
Jelena Stevanovic: Evaluating the implementation of puberty and fertility surveillance in hemoglobinopathy care

11.48
Reserve time

12.00
Prof. Ece Özkan-Elsen, Child Health (AICH) Group, DBE
Machine Learning in Pediatric Healthcare: Promise, Pitfalls, and Practical Realities

13.50
Iris Martinez
Laterality and hypoplasia in unilateral cleft lip and palate (UCLP): From evidence to ongoing research

13.55
Sarah Rebecca Meyer
Physiology-based prediction of oxyhaemoglobin dissociation curve shift in preterm infants

14.00
Jonas Müller
Iron-related MRI-indices in brains of youth with ADHD and symptom-response after methylphenidate treatment – study design for a pragmatic prospective 8-week observational trial (MIRIAM, Medication Iron Relationship in ADHD Magnetic resonance imaging)

14.05
Renata Pereira
Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte adoptive therapy (TIL-ACT) in a pediatric patient with relapsed osteosarcoma

14.10
Anna Reisch
Exploring the interface between leukemic cells and the immune microenvironment in an
inducible AML mouse model

14.15
Rathick Sivalingam
Global profiling of RNA-binding proteins interacting with the KMT2A-MLLT3 fusion mRNA, arecurrent driver of pediatric acute leukemia

14.20
Benjamin Stöcklin
Season of discharge and risk of increased acute respiratory illnesses (ARI) in very preterm infants

14.25
Michèle Widmer
Effects of ballet training on kinematics and sujective parameters in children with idiopathic coxa antetorta: a pre-post intervention study

Ferda Canbaz, PhD, Head of Center for Intelligent Optics, DBE
Shaping light for health: Minimally invasive optical and laser tools for future medicine

15.20
Emmanouil Damilakis
Characterizing normal levels of urinary kidney function and injury markers in healthy children and adolescents

15.30
Severin Fankhauser
Left ventricular function and its longitudinal assessment in Swiss childhood cancer survivors – Results from the CardioOnco Study

15.40
Malena Gwerder
The influence of body mass index on lung function growth from infancy to school age

15.50
Leila Potzel
Coproporphyrin I as an endogenous biomarker in children: Investigating age-dependent
changes and genetic influences

16.00
Guerric Samson
NUPA10hd-immortalized and genetically engineered progenitors allow studying dendritic cell immune functions

16.10
Adelita Sommacal
Development of palatal growth charts for unilateral cleft lip and palate before primary singlestage repair

16.20
Britta Steffens
From a mathematical model to evidence: Evaluating clinical decision support software for individualized dosing in thyroid care in an international RCT