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SwissPedNet Award 2025

NextGen Podcast and NextGen Instagram session

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

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.

pädiatrie schweiz offered the award of CHF 3000.- for each session.