Sven Kühn cited in article about in-ground base station antennas by the Swiss newspaper “Tagesanzeiger”

Sven Kühn cited in article about in-ground base station antennas by the Swiss newspaper "Tagesanzeiger".

Pregnant women models analyzed for RF exposure and temperature increase in 3T RF shimmed birdcages

Manuel Murbach, Esra Neufeld, Theodoros Samaras, Juan Córcoles, Fraser J. Robb, Wolfgang Kainz,and Niels Kuster, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Volume 77, Issue 5, Pages C1–C1, 1729–2086; Early View: 13 May 2016, Online: 18 April 2017; doi: 10.1002/mrm.26268.

Two IT'IS Papers Supporting NIEHS NTP Study of Cell Phone RF Radiation and Carcinogensis in Rats Published Online

Two papers in support of the preliminary findings of the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) Study on Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation (RFR) and Carcinogensis have recently been published online in IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility.

Life-Time Dosimetric Assessment for Mice and Rats Exposed in Reverberation Chambers for the Two-Year NTP Cancer Bioassay Study on Cell Phone Radiation

Yijian Gong, Myles H. Capstick, Sven Kuehn, Perry F. Wilson, John M. Ladbury, Galen Koepke, David L. McCormick, Ronald L. Melnick, and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, online 17 March 2017, doi: 10.1109/TEMC.2017.2665039

A Radio Frequency Radiation Exposure System for Rodents Based on Reverberation Chambers

Myles H. Capstick, Sven Kuehn, Veronica Berdinas-Torres, Yijian Gong, Perry F. Wilson, John M. Ladbury, Galen Koepke, David L. McCormick, James Gauger, Ronald L. Melnick, and Niels Kuster, IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility, Volume 59, Issue 4, pp. 1041–1052. August 2017, online 17 March 2017, doi: 10.1109/TEMC.2017.2649885

Computational hybrid anthropometric paediatric phantom library for internal radiation dosimetry

Tianwu Xie, Niels Kuster, and Habib Zaidi, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Volume 62, Issue 8, pp. 3263–3283. 21 April, 2017, online 28 March 2017, doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/aa63d0

ELF‑MF exposure affects the robustness of epigenetic programming during granulopoiesis

Melissa Manser, Mohamad R. Abdul Sater, Christoph D. Schmid, Faiza Noreen, Manuel Murbach, Niels Kuster, David Schuermann, and Primo Schär, Scientific Reports 2017, Volume 7, Article number: 43345, online: 07 March 2017, DOI: 10.1038/srep43345. 

Faculty and Masters Students from the University of Kassel Visit Zurich43

Faculty and masters students from the University of Kassel Electrical Communication Engineering (ECE) degree program visited Zurich43 on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 for an introduction to IT'IS research programs and a tour of the laboratories.

Evaluation of the potential of mobile phone specific electromagnetic fields (UMTS) to produce micronuclei in human glioblastoma cell lines

Halh Al-Serori, Michael Kundi, Franziska Ferk, Miroslav Mišík, Armen Nersesyan, Manuel Murbach, Tamara T. Lah, and Siegfried Knasmüller, Toxicology In Vitro, Volume 40, pp. 264–271, April 2017, online 24 January 2017, DOI: 10.1016/j.tiv.2017.01.012.

Effects of personalised exposure on self-rated electromagnetic hypersensitivity and sensibility – A double-blind randomised controlled trial

Imke van Moorselaar, Pauline Slottje, Pia Heller, Rob van Strien, Hans Kromhout, Manuel Murbach, Niels Kuster, Roel Vermeulen, and Anke Huss, Environment International, Volume 99, pp. 255–262, February 2017, online 09 December 2016, doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2016.11.031.

Zurich43 Retreat 2017 at Pilatus Kulm - Communication

Twenty-five Zurich43 associates and three IT'IS Foundation board members gathered in the historic Hotel Pilatus-Kulm high above Luzern 30 – 31 January 2017 for their annual retreat, this year on communication. The goal of the two-day retreat was to find ways to improve communication skills across various target groups, channels, and markets, both within Z43 and with the outside world.

X-TRA, X-TRA! Inaugural Zurich43 Party: X-TRAordinary Nine = X-TRAordinary Fun!

The 2017 Z43 annual party held at Zurich’s X-TRA concert hall celebrated the emerging corporate identity and global reach of the Z43 brand.

Successful NEUROMAN Project Start and Kickoff Meeting

Partners form Switzerland and Korea join forces to create first ever computational phantom with detailed neuronal networks.

Terahertz reflectarrays and nonuniform metasurfaces

Daniel Headland, Tiaoming Niu, Eduardo Carrasco, Derek Abbott, Shruti Nirantar, Sharath Sriram, Madhu Bhaskaran, Christophe Fumeaux, and Withawat Withayachumnankul, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, online 20 December 2016, DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2016.2640452

Important Milestone in Cancer Therapy

As of January 2017, the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH) will include hyperthermia treatment in combination with radiation therapy as covered therapy in the Swiss basic health insurance catalog.

3D Atlas of Human Embryology

A team from the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam NL has published a comprehensive 3D Atlas of Human Embryology. The atlas is made freely available to the scientific community to facilitate embryology education and research.

A Brain–Spine Interface Alleviating Gait Deficits after Spinal Cord Injury in Primates

Noninvasive Deep Brain Stimulation via Delivery of Temporally Interfering Electric Fields

Nir Grossman, David Bono, Suhasa Kodandaramaiah, Andrii Rudenko, Antonino Cassara, Esra Neufeld, Sheeba A. Anteraper, Atsushi Takahashi, Niels Kuster, Li-Huei Tsai, Alvaro Pascual-Leone, and Edward S. Boyden at the 46^th annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, San Diego, CA, USA, November 12 – 16, 2016

National Future Day 2016 – Gamma-Detector

On Thursday  November 10, six enthusiastic 11 – 13 year olds visited Z43 for Swiss National Future Day 2016, where they each manufactured a working gamma detector.

From Image-Based Modeling to the Modeling of Imaging with the Virtual Population

Esra Neufeld, Bryn Lloyd, and Niels Kuster, in Simulation and Synthesis in Medical Imaging, Proceedings of the First International Workshop, SASHIMI 2016, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2016, Athens, Greece, October 21, 2016, Volume 9968 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 45–54, online October, 2016

Signaling by sulfur-containing molecules. Quantitative aspects.

Willem H. Koppenol and Patricia L. Bounds, Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics, online September 23, 2016

Magnetic Nanoparticle-Induced Hyperthermia with Appropriate Payloads: Paul Ehrlich’s “Magic (Nano)bullet” for Cancer Theranostics?

Nilroy R. Datta, Sunil Krishnan, Daniel E. Speiser, Esra Neufeld, Niels Kuster, Stefan Bodis, and Heinrich Hofmann,
Cancer Treatment Reviews, Volume 50, pp. 217–227, online September 2016

Approach to Validate Simulation-Based Distribution Predictions Combining the Gamma-Method and Uncertainty Assessment: Application to Focused Ultrasound

Esra Neufeld, Adamos Kyriacou, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Journal of Verification, Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 1, Issue 3, 031006, online September 2016

IT'IS Publication in Magnetic Resonance in Medicine: MRM Highlights – Editor's Pick September 2016

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine features recent IT'IS paper in MRM Highlights – Editor's Pick September 2016.

Virtual Population-Based Assessment of the Impact of 3 Tesla Radiofrequency Shimming and Thermoregulation on Safety and B1+ Uniformity

Manuel Murbach, Esra Neufeld, Eugenia Cabot, Earl Zastrow, Juan Córcoles, Wolfgang Kainz, and Niels Kuster, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Volume 76, Issue 3, pp. 986–997, September 2016; Early View, September 2015, online September 24, 2015

NTP Study Presented and Discussed at NIEHS Scientific Board Meeting

Following the press release on the US National Toxicology Program (NTP) Study of Cell Phone Radiofrequency Radiation (RFR) and Carcinogensis in May 2016, the presentation given by prinicpal investigator Michael Wyde on the setup and main preliminary findings is now accessible on our website.

IT'IS Annual Report 2015

Parallel smoothing pressure correction solver for biomedical flow problems: convergence criteria, preconditioning, scalability

Kathrin Burckhardt, Dominik Szczerba, Esra Neufeld, Krishnamurthy Muralidhar, and Niels Kuster, Progress in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Volume 16, Issue 4, pp. 201–215, online August 10, 2016

Release of New Posable Virtual Population Models V3.1!

IT’IS proudly announces the release of the full range of ViP models, now upgraded for use with the new Poser method available in the multiphysics computational life sciences platform Sim4Life 2.2!

Latsis Symposium 2016 ETH Zurich on Personalized Medicine, June 27–29, 2016

The IT'IS Foundation joined forces with the Competence Center Personalized Medicine UZH/ETH to host the Latsis Symposium 2016 on Personalized Medicine at the ETH Zurich, June 27 – 29, 2016. More than 250 attendees assembled to explore a wide range of topics on research and policy in precision medicine with leading experts from clinics, universities, regulatory agencies, and industry. The event closed with a well-attended German-language public event on Wednesday evening, June 29.