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SwissPedNet Award 2025

NextGen Podcast and NextGen Instagram session

At the annual congress of pédiatrie suisse 2025, again two young researchers were awarded with the translational & clinical research award offered by SwissPedNet and sponsored by pédiatrie suisse.

We congratulate the winner of the SwissPedNet NextGen Podcast session:

Franco Romero, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern. For his research project:  » Can routine electronic healthcare records be used to collect and enhance data collection for cohort studies? The SPHN-SPAC demonstrator project. « 

Franco Romero, Myrofora Goutaki, Anna Naef

We also congratulate the winners sharing the prize of the SwissPedNet NextGen Instagram session:

Arianna Pfiffer, Children’s University Hospital Zürich. For her research project  » Enhancing Precision in Pediatric Brain Tumor MRI: Automated Segmentation Using Deep Learning « .

Jakica Cavar, Divison of Pediatric Hematology/Ongology, Inselspital Bern. For her research project  » Survey on Cancer Predisposition Identification & Observation Practice in Europe (SCOPE)? « .

Myrofora Goutaki, Jakica Cavar, Anna Naef

The Instagram Session followed the format of the famous social media website to transmit content as an image. The presenters prepared a graphical abstract to show the main messages of the project.

pédiatrie suisse offered the award of CHF 3000.- for each session.