Co-Me: News


	CAScination nominated for the Swiss Technology Award 2011
		November 2011 --- Congratulations to Co-Me researchers Matthias Peterhans and Stefan Weber: Out of 96 applications, their start-up company CAScination has been nominated as a finalist for the Swiss Technology Award 2011.


	Successful Co-Me researchers at MICCAI 2011
		September 2011 --- Congratulations to Co-Me PhD student Christof Seiler of the VSD project: He was awarded the MICCAI Young Scientist Award for his paper Geometry-Aware Multiscale Image Registration Via OBB Tree-Based Polyaffine Log-Demons. Co-authors were Xavier Pennec and Mauricio Reyes.


	Launch of Swiss Institute for Computer Assisted Surgery
		September 2011 --- The Swiss Institute for Computer Assisted Surgery (SICAS) was officially launched on September 14. During the next two years SICAS will carry out a step-by-step take over and extend the activities of the NCCR Co-Me which will come to an end by mid 2013.


	AEON Scientific wins Venture Kick Competition
		July 2011 --- Congratulations to the team of AEON Scientific, a start-up company of ETH Zurich that is related to the Co-Me Ophthalmology project: They have won the final round of the Venture Kick competition 2011 and receive another 100'000 CHF in funds.


	Liver navigation featured on BBC World News
		July 2011 --- Researchers of the Co-Me related start-up company CAScination have created a way of allowing surgeons to operate on the liver without causing unnecessary damage to healthy tissue. Their liver navigation system was featured on BBC World News' format "Horizons".


	Stephen Ferguson appointed full professor at ETH Zurich
		April 2011 --- The NCCR Co-Me congratulates Stephen Ferguson; the ETH Zurich board has appointed him as full professor of Biomechanics at the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT).


	Co-Me at the Hannover Messe
		March 2011 --- Two research groups of the NCCR Co-Me have been invited to participate in the upcoming Hannover Messe 2011. They will have an exhibit at the Swiss Pavilion booth organized by the competence centre for Swiss foreign trade promotion OSEC.


	Career Step for Guoyan Zheng
		Januar 2011 --- The NCCR Co-Me congratulates PD Dr. Guoyan Zheng. He has received the Venia docendi for Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern.

The National Centres of Competence in Research (NCCR) are a research instrument of the Swiss National Science Foundation.