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A new Swiss TPH-led study shows how digital tools can support caregivers and extend early childhood development services in resource-constrained settings.

In August 2026, Dr Burcu Tepekule will join the Basel Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Paediatric Infectious and Emerging Diseases Modelling.

In July 2025, Dr Ece Özkan Elsen will join the Basel Research Centre for Child Health as a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Pediatric Digital Health Data Analysis.

In February 2025, Dr. Na Cai will join the Basel Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) as an Assistant Professor of Computational Medical Genomics.

In early 2024, Prof Daniel Baumhoer joined the Basel Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) as the first professor as part of the organisation’s transition to a digital health hub in Basel.

Today, the Botnar Research Centre for Child Health announces its new name effective immediately - the Basel Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH).

The treatment of children born with cleft lip and palate typically includes the use of therapeutic intraoral plates before surgical closure of the cleft. The plate passively sits on the roof of the baby’s mouth and helps separate the nasal and oral regions.

Fondation Botnar is donating an additional CHF 50 million to the University of Basel and ETH Zurich to expand the activities of the joint Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH).

Millions of children in low-income settings are at risk of missing their developmental potential in early life.

Prof Kerina Duri, associate professor in the Immunology Unit at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Zimbabwe (UZ-FMHS), and her...

The Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH) is pleased to announce six research projects within its new initiative, the Principal Investigator Initiative (PII).

The BRCCH announces five research projects within its new initiative, Postdoctoral Excellence Programme (PEP).

Immunologist Georg Holländer is a researcher through and through; he is considered a visionary and an inspiration.

It’s only a little more than two years since the BRCCH started operations.

The BRCCH and the European & Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (EDCTP) are to support three multi-institutional, multi-country collaborations for research to mitigate the impact of COVID-19.

BRCCH is to drive the development of innovative and step-changing health solutions for those who are most in need.

The inaugural Spotlight Day of the BRCCH marked the start of our initiative to build a community, both locally and globally, around the central mission of improving the health and well-being of children and adolescents worldwide.

The BRCCH is pleased to announce its Multi-Investigator Programme (MIP) projects for the 2019 Call, which establish the first cornerstones of the Centre’s research portfolio to improve the health and well-being of children and adolescents worldwide.