Since 2020, the University of Bern has been offering a new interdisciplinary university degree program in pharmaceutics that is the only one of its kind in Switzerland. In the summer of 2022, the first class graduated from the pharmaceutics program.

In 1921, a dental institute laid the foundation for the Clinic for Dental Medicine of the University of Bern (ZMK Bern). It celebrated its 100th anniversary in the fall of 2022 and is today among the world leaders in its field.

The inhabitants of the "oldest city in the world" in Çatalhöyük (Turkey) buried their dead, dug them up, painted their bones, and reburied them several times. Researchers from Bern’s Institute of Forensic Medicine took part in the excavations.

At the Institute of Pathology at the University of Bern, an innovation has been developed for the department which is the first of its kind in the world. It is the Pathojet, a kind of medical cockpit.

With the project "VETHOPES", the Small Animal Clinic of the The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Vetsuisse Faculty) at the University of Bern supports people who cannot afford treatment for their animals. The animals are treated by students.

Researchers at the University of Bern and Inselspital have developed a test that massively simplifies the diagnosis of allergies and can reliably predict the success of a therapy.