Andreas A. Müller

Prof. 
Andreas A. Müller, MD, PhD, MABA

Position(s)
Head Cleft lip and palate surgery and Attending Surgeon,
Oral- and Craniomaxillofacial Surgery

Institution
University Hospital Basel &
University Children's Hospital Basel

Phone +41 61 328 60 95

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Research Focus

Regenerative Medicine & Biomechanics

Area of Research

Facial and cranial malformations, especially cleft lips, jaws and palate:

  • Cleft Lip and Palate treatment, in particular approaches to reduce the burden of care, comprising the combined lip and palate repair and machine learning strategies.
  • Regenerative medicine strategies by use of scaffolds and cellular components, including from human umbilical cord.
  • Advancement of surgical therapies, namely related to precision surgical anatomy, microcirculation and microsurgery.

Approved Research Projects

  • Burden Reduced Cleft Care and Healing, The Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (www.brc.ch), Multi-Investigator Project 2020-2025: Mueller AA, Solenthaler B, Gross M, Reddy GS, Brudnicki A
  • Learning-based 3D Infant Face and Head Model for Medical Application, Swiss National Science Foundation 2022-2025; Mueller AA, Solenthaler B, Gross M

 


Collaborations

National Collaborations

  • Dr. Dr. Marcello Augello, Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie, Kantonsspital Aarau
  • Prof. Dr.-Ing. Markus Gross, Computer Graphics Laboratory ETH Zurich & Disney Research Laboratory Zurich
  • Dr. sc. Barbara Solenthaler, Simulation and Animation at Computer Graphics Laboratory, ETH Zurich
  • Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Christoph Sebastian Leiggener, PD Dr. med. Dr. med. dent. Philipp Metzler, Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie, Kopf- und Halskrebszentrum, Kantonsspital Aarau

International Collaborations

  • Assistent Professor Andrzej Brudnicki, Institute of Mother and Child, Department of Surgery of Children and Adolescents, Warsaw, Poland
  • Prof. Dr. Bernard Devauchelle, Stomatologie et Chirurgie Maxillo-Faciale & Institute Faire Faces,  Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens, France
  • Prof. Dr.  Srinivas Gosla Reddy, G.S.R. Institute of Craniofacial and Facial Plastic Surgery, Hyderabad, India
  • Dr. Bruno Grollemund, Orthopédie Dento-Facial, Centre Hospitalier Régional et Universitaire Strasbourg, France
  • Prof. Colin McGuckin, CTIBiotech, Meyzieu Lyon, France
  • Prof. Dr. Alex Vargas Díaz, Department of Oncological and Maxillofacial Surgery, Division of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University, Chile
  • Prof. Dr. Marcia Corvetto Aqueveque, Department of Anesthesiology, Division of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University, Chile
  • Dr. Althaf Hussain, Cleft and Craniofacial Centre, Sri Ramachandra University
  • Dr. R.V.M. Surya Rao, Plastic Surgery, Saveetha University

Ongoing Research Projects

  • Burden Reduced Cleft Care and Healing
  • Implications from precision surgical anatomy for modern craniofacial paediatrics
  • Presurgical orthopaedics in cleft lip and palate, three dimensional platal shape change and its surgical implication
  • In house manufacturing of an anatomical cleft lip and palate model for education and surgical Training
  • Cephalometric craniofacial growth analysis after combined cleft lip and palate repair with and without primary bone grafting
  • Intraoperative Assessment of the Influence of Cleft Repair on Microcirculation of the Palate
  • Volume stability of secondary alveolar bone grafting
  • Digital workflow for personalized presurgical plate therapy
  • Development of robot-guided laser osteotome (CARLO® device)
  • Clinical application of statistical infant face and head model in craniofacial malformation

Research Team

Benito Benitez, MD DDS

Research Fellow

Phone +41 61 556 52 85

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Martin Erismann

Research Fellow

Phone +41 61 265 73 44

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Charles Rudin

Research Assistant

Phone +41 61 265 76 12

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Iris Indri

Research Assistant

Phone +41 61 556 56 40

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Yoriko Lill, PhD

Senior Research Scientist

Phone +41 61 556 53 49
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Laura Kiser

Student

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Prasad Nalabothu

Research Fellow

Phone +41 61 267 26 41

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cand. med. Abeelan Rasadurai

Junior Research Scientist

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Anita Lukic

Research Assistant

Phone +41 61 328 73 47

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Tarek Amran

Student

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cand. med. Samuel Drack

Student

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Guy Léon Pierre Scherrer

Research Assistant

Phone +41 61 265 73 29

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Maren Roche, PhD

Scientific Project Manager

Phone +41 61 556 51 06
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Julian Alexander Erkert

Student

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