The Benoît Pochon Prize is awarded each year in recognition of a high-quality PhD or MD-PhD research thesis to a doctoral student who has successfully finished and defended her/his thesis in a research group of the Department for BioMedical Research. The prize is sponsored by the DBMR and the Department of Radio-Oncology, Inselspital. The award is endowed with CHF 1’000.- to be freely used by the awardee.