Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

The research of the Bio Engineering Laboratory (BEL) at ETH Zürich is rooted in Engineering and Physics. BEL is performing interdisciplinary engineering research and education relevant to biology and medicine. It has longstanding experience in the development of Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS)-technology-based integrated chemical and biomicrosystems, as well as bioelectronics and microelectrode arrays. Moreover, BEL is engaged in the development of microfluidics for investigating the characteristics of single cells and microtissues. BEL is one of several innovative research groups within the ETH Zürich Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering (D-BSSE), where engineers, biologists and computational scientists work together on the understanding, rational design, and reprogramming of complex biological systems from the nanoscale up to whole organisms.