Media Outlets
[November 2023] MR-Eye
[November 2023] Micro Collar MonkeyCall
[June 2022] Rapport annuel du CHUV - Prix et distinctions.
[Nov 2021] Special Issue topical collection now ready
[Oct 2021] FBM and News Unil celebrate our Prizes.
[Sept 2021] A short article for our paper in Nature Physics can be found here: link.
[Sept 2021] Prix Retina press release for DEBI
[Marc 2020] Our CNS symposium of New Technologies in Vision rehabilitation got Media attention: IEEE Spectrum and EurekAlert
[May 2020] Our recent MR-technology earned a publication in Progress in Neurobiology, a beautiful press-release, and a spot in the Swiss news; Press-release-1, Press-release-2, Newspaper, Patent
Awards and scholarships
B. Franceschiello - 2021: Finalist EIT Health WildCard, Category: Eye and Vision care.
B. Franceschiello - 2021: OphthAward, 10k, Swiss Society of Ophthalmology, Category: Highest Clinical Relevance
B. Franceschiello - 2021: Prix Retina, 15k, Switzerland for the Diagnostic Eye Brain Imaging Publication.
B. Franceschiello - 2019: ARVO international Travel Grant for Trainee researchers, Vancouver, Canada.
Research Grants:
Nov 2023 2.0 MR-Eye: towards a consensual Magnetic resonance Imaging protocol of the Human Eye
Awarding body: Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
PI: Prof. Benedetta Franceschiello; Amount: 973,727 CHF.
Nov 2023 MR-Eye Track: Machine Learning Techniques to extract eye movements trajectories from MRI data
Awarding body: Project Libre, Inter-school Interdisciplinary Call
Role: Co-PI; Amount: 220’000 CHF
March 2023 Kick-fMRI: Kids Compliant functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Awarding body: The Sense Innovation and Research Center
Role: Co-PI; Amount: 100’000 CHFApr 2022 A-Eye: an Artificial intelligence large-scale Magnetic Resonance Imaging model of the Eye
Awarding body: Fondation Gelbert
PIs: Dr. Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Prof. Benedetta Franceschiello, Role: Co-PI, Amount: 200k CHF.
Jan 2022 DEBI: Dynamic Eye Brain Imaging, InnoTREK Pactt
Awarding body: InnoTREK Pactt
Role: PI; Amount: 100’000 CHF. Declined: incompatibility due to the new role as Associate Professor.
Nov 2017 - April 2020 Visual medicine 2020, SEER, screening Efficiency and Enhanced Rehabilitation
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