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Diverssity

DiverSsiTy SA: Therapy for Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

DiverSsiTy SA leverages Mixed Reality (MR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionise mental health for people with Autism Spectrum Disorder…

Tune Insight Team

A CHF 2 Million Innosuisse Grant for Tune Insight

2025 is off to a groundbreaking start for Tune Insight, a leading EPFL spin-off specializing in privacy-preserving data collaboration solutions….

Vandria Team

Vandria starts clinical trials for VNA-318

Vandria SA, a Vaud-based start-up at the vanguard of mitochondrial therapeutics developing first-in-class small molecule mitophagy inducers, announced last December…

Actival receives CHF 150’000 from Venture Kick to launch innovative dental aligners

The CSEM spin-off is launching its advanced Active Aligners to provide a more effective and healthier approach to orthodontic care….

ONWARD

ONWARD Medical Secures FDA Approval for First Non-Invasive Spinal Cord Stimulation System

ONWARD Medical has reached a significant milestone in spinal cord injury (SCI) treatment, receiving FDA de novo classification and U.S….

FIF

Astrocyte and MyoLink supported by FIF

Two Geneva-based life sciences projects have been selected to receive funding through the FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF). Astrocyte and MyoLink,…

Neuria Team

Neuria obtains final Kick of CHF 150,000

The UNIFR spin-off created a digital health solution targeting overweight through neuroscience and is supported by Venture Kick.   More…

FIT - Dec 2024

Limula, Actival and AirCurve supported by the FIT

Limula and its automation process for the production of cell therapies, Actival and its ‘active’ dental aligners, and AirCurve and…

dEEGtal

Wyss Center invests CHF 750,000 in dEEGtal

The Wyss Center is proud to partner with dEEGtal Insight SA with a CHF 750,000 investment in its next stage…

Biolux Technology

Biolux Technology Revolutionizes Orthodontics with CHF 4M Seed Investment

  Biolux Technology, a pioneer in light-accelerated orthodontics, has secured CHF 4 million in seed funding from prominent investors, including…

Genilem

SaisiR and GutUp win the 5th edition of Prêt, Partez, Pitch!

The curtain has fallen on the 5ᵉ edition of the Genilem competition Prêt? Partez, Pitch! In front of a packed…

Biopôle

Biopôle SA: A 20-Year Journey and the Inauguration of the Leucine Building

Biopôle SA, in collaboration with the Caisse de pensions de l’État de Vaud (CPEV) and Retraites Populaires, unveiled on 5…

SDC Biopôle

The Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) moves to Biopôle

A joint initiative of EPFL and ETH Zurich, the Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC) is expanding and taking up residence…

Andrea Ablasser

Prof. Andrea Ablasser wins the 2024 Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences

The Liliane Bettencourt Prize for Life Sciences, awarded by the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, honours exceptional scientists under 45 for groundbreaking…

Claire Charmet - CHUV

Claire Charmet to become CHUV’s new General Manager

The Vaud Cantonal Government has unanimously appointed Claire Charmet to head the Vaud University Hospital Center (CHUV). With fifteen years’…

HES-SO Digital Life Sciences

HES-SO Valais-Wallis opens a Digital Life Sciences training programme

The HES-SO Valais-Wallis School of Engineering is breaking new ground by offering a Digital Life Sciences (DLS) option within its…

Swiss Medical Network honored by PVEI

Swiss Medical Network, one of Switzerland’s two leading private groups of clinics and hospitals, SWISSto12, a pioneer in satellite telecoms…

Siegfried

Siegfried opens new global R&D Center for Drug Substances in Evionnaz

Siegfried (SIX: SFZN), a leading global Contract Development and Manufacturing Organization (CDMO) for the pharmaceutical industry headquartered in Zofingen (Switzerland),…

BND24 - SCCL

The Swiss Cancer Centre Léman receives the BioAlps Academia Award 2024

The BioAlps Awards ceremony took place on 21 November 2024 at the University of Fribourg in front about 250 key…

BND24 -Takeda

Takeda Neuchâtel receives the BioAlps Industry Award 2024

The BioAlps Awards 2024 ceremony took place on 21 November 2024 at the University of Fribourg in front of around…

Onward Medical

ONWARD Medical Awarded Grant to Study Potential for ARC-BCI Therapy to Restore Movement after Stroke

ONWARD Medical, the Lausanne-born medical technology company creating innovative spinal cord stimulation therapies to restore movement, function, and independence in…

FIT 19 Nov

FIT supports 2 new life sciences projects

Gynecare+ and its innovative outfit to transform the experience of gynaecological examinations, TOCx and its digital platform for the care…

CSEM - 40th Birthday

CSEM: 40 years of innovation

The Swiss Centre for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM) celebrates its 40th anniversary in 2024, marking four decades of innovation in…

Bracco

Bracco invests EUR 80 Million in Geneva

Over 80 million euros have been invested to build Hexagon, a new multi-functional building located next to the historical 1997…

Egg or Chicken

Egg or Chicken, who was the first?

Researchers have studied a single-celled organism discovered in Hawaii in 2017. The results have shed some light on this question….

EPFL Innogrants

EPFL Innogrants: 4 life sciences projects awarded

EPFL’s Startup Launchpad has awarded CHF 100,000 Innogrants to start-up projects based at EPFL: Myriad Optics, Protonica, Dexterous Catheters and…

Lonza

Lonza to Expand Bioconjugation in Visp with Two Additional Manufacturing Suites

Fantastic news for the Swiss Health Valley! After announcing the creation of 100 new jobs in October, Lonza announces the…

HepaVue

HepaVue Awarded By FIT

HepaVue created the world’s first virtual reality liver biopsy to diagnose liver disease. The CHF 100,000 Tech Seed loan granted…

Atinary team

Atinary Technologies: a new lab in the U.S. and a partnership with Takeda

The Swiss Health Valley company launches its self-driving Data factory: the AI-driven Laboratory for High-Quality Data and Molecules Generation in collaboration…

Xemperia

Xemperia wins the IFF Start-Up Award

The Innovation Fribourg Freiburg (IFF) 2024-2025 Prizes were awarded on 6 November 2024. Xemperia, a University of Fribourg spin-off won…

Advanced Science Building

The Advanced Science Building:A New Impetus for Basic Research at EPFL

EPFL is investing CHF 200 million in an innovative building specially designed to meet the extreme demands of cutting-edge deep…

Impli x Bayer

Impli partners with Bayer

Bayer announced a partnership with Impli, a Biopôle-based innovative, femtech start-up in precision care. Impli’s goal is to advance women’s…

MassChallenge Awards 2024

MassChallenge Switzerland Awards

The MassChallenge Switzerland Awards 2024 ceremony was held in Lausanne on 1 November. This non-equity start-up accelerator, honoured 12 innovative…

Time Best Inventions 2024

ONWARD and Aspivix listed in TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2024

Two Western Switzerland medtech companies, Aspivix and ONWARD Medical, have been named among TIME magazine’s Best Inventions of 2024, each…

FluoSphera

FluoSphera expands into the testing of Antibody-Drug-Conjugates (ADCs)

FluoSphera, a Geneva-based leader in systemic drug discovery, is proud to announce its strategic expansion into the testing of Antibody-Drug-Conjugates…

Perivision

Perivision VisionOne gets CE-Mark

Perivision has received the EU CE-certification for its 1st medical software product VisionOne.     PeriVision, an innovative spin-off from…

Longevity Fund

La Prairie launches the Longevity Fund

Clinique La Prairie (CLP), global leader in longevity since 1931, announces the LONGEVITY FUND, an endeavour to identify and invest…

FIT - 30 ans

The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) – 30 years serving entrepreneurship

The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) celebrates 30 years of supporting innovation in French-speaking Switzerland     Founded in 1994,…

SPHN

SPHN launches a new cross-hospital data query tool powered by Tune Insight

The Swiss Personalised Health Networking is introducing the SPHN Data Exploration and Analysis System (DEAS), powered by EPFL Spin-off Tune…

Maven Health

Maven Health takes part in the OH MY GUT! project

The new public-private partnership aims to explore how what we eat affects our gut health and, in turn, how our…

Distalmotion

Dexter Surgical Robot by Distalmotion Gains FDA Approval

Distalmotion’s Dexter Surgical Robot has officially received FDA approval for use in inguinal hernia repairs, introducing a transformative solution for…

FIF Octobre 2024

Adoram Therapeutics, ex vivo and Dyneo Technologies awarded by the FIF

Three Innovative Geneva start-ups Secure FIF financing to drive technological advances in Life Sciences, Virtual Reality for Medical Education and…

OM Pharma

Duhn Therapeutics signs global license agreement with OM Pharma

Duhn Therapeutics SAS, a clinical-stage company co-founded by Landmark BioVentures AG, and OM Pharma SA, a global biopharmaceutical company and…

ONWARD Medical

ONWARD Medical raises CHF 50 million

ONWARD Medical N.V.announces that it successfully raised an amount of EUR 50 million led by a cornerstone investment from Ottobock,…

Lonza Visp

100 new jobs and a new plant for Lonza in Visp

Lonza is expanding its partnership with an undisclosed major pharmaceutical company to supply antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). This agreement includes building…

Journée Innovation HUG

dEEGtal awarded during the 18th HUG Innovation Day

Geneva University Hospitals (HUG) awarded the 2024 Innovation Prize to three projects: dEEGtal, an artificial intelligence-assisted biomarker for the early…

Aktiia

Aktiia Gets CE-mark Approval For CALFREE as a Class II medical product

Swiss healthcare technology company Aktiia has achieved a major milestone with the CE-mark approval of its groundbreaking CALFREE technology as…

FinalSpark

FinalSpark’s Neuroplatform: the era of organic computing has begun!

Swiss startup FinalSpark has just launched its Neuroplatform, the world’s first commercial bioprocessor. This innovation promises to be a technological…

HealthCare Konnect and AI4MedImaging Announce Strategic Alliance

AI4MedImaging and HealthCare Konnect have formed a strategic alliance to extend the reach of AI4CMR, a fully automated cardiac MRI solution, through the powerful HCKonnect digital platform.

Lymphatica

Lymphatica Medtech Closes € 17.9 M Series B Funding Round

Lymphatica Medtech SA, a clinical-stage company based in Lausanne, Switzerland, specialized in innovative treatments for lymphedema, has raised €17.9 million…

Novostia

Novostia Secures Additional CHF 5.6 million in Funding and Announces New CEO

Novostia, a Biopôle-based pioneering medical technology company, specializing in the development of a disruptive heart valve prosthesis, at clinical stage,…

Entrepreneur of the Year

Silvia Scherer, from APTISSEN SA, is Entrepreneur of the Year

On 4 October 2024, Silvia Sherer, co-founder of APTISSEN, became Swiss Entrepreneur of the Year in the category Industry, High-Tech…

Atinary

Atinary Technologies Announces Strategic Collaboration with Snapdragon Chemistry

Atinary Technologies has joined forces with Snapdragon Chemistry, a Cambrex subsidiary, to bring AI-driven automation into pharmaceutical process development  …

SIB Pathogen Centre

SIB inaugurates its Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics

SIB has launched a new Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics, building on its contributions during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Centre will…

Bnovate portfolio

bNovate Technologies unveils new BactoSense product portfolio for advanced water quality monitoring

bNovate Technologies SA announced the launch of its new BactoSense product portfolio, featuring three innovative models: BactoSense CORE, BactoSense SMART…

Actival

Actival Revolutionizes Dental Aligners with Innovative Microchannel Technology

Actival, a Neuchâtel-based startup supported by the CSEM (Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology), is transforming the dental aligner market…

Fribourg IFF

Seprify SA & Xemperia, finalists of the IFF Prize

The State of Fribourg and BCF announce the nine finalists for the IFF Prize. 9 companies, out of 39 applications,…

Abionic

FDA Clears Abionic’s IVD CAPSULE PSP for Early Detection of Sepsis

Abionic, a Vaud-based medical diagnostics company, announced that its IVD CAPSULE PSP test received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food…

Swiss BioMotion Lab

The CHUV launches the Swiss BioMotion Lab

This laboratory, which specialises in the analysis and rehabilitation of movement, will enable large-scale research to be carried out and…

Perivision

Perivision raises CHF 1.1 Million

PeriVision, Inselspital and the University of Bern receive a CHF 1.1 Million grant to build new functional eye tests in…

Cerveau Unige

A breakthrough in the fight against brain cancer

Researchers at HUG and UNIGE have succeeded in generating cells that kill diseased cells. It works on mouse glioblastoma.  …

Intuitive

Intuitive Expands in the Canton of Vaud

Intuitive, a pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery, has expanded its European headquarters in Aubonne, now employing over 250 people.    …

Genolier Innovation Hub

Genolier Innovation Hub – A Pioneer in Medical Innovation

The Genolier Innovation Hub was inaugurated this Friday 27 September in canton of Vaud. With a CHF 100 million investment,…

ten 23 health

ten23 health Opens State-of-the-Art VIVA2® Sterile Manufacturing Facility in Visp

This advanced, energy-efficient plant will enhance the company’s capabilities in commercial and clinical manufacturing of sterile medicines, including vials, syringes,…

Alithea Genomics

Alithea Genomics Secures Loan from Swiss Technology Fund

Alithea Genomics, an emerging leader in the field of large-scale RNA sequencing and transcriptomics based in canton of Vaud, has…

Neo Medical

Neo Medical completes a $68 million Series B financing round

Neo Medical SA (Neo), a Lausanne-Based technology company specialising in spine surgery, has announced the successful completion of its Series…

FIT Septembre 2024

TWIICE and Nexco Analytics supported by the FIT

The Foundation for Technological Innovation extends its support to Twiice and Nexco Analytics with new loans. Twiice has been awarded a…

HUG ZHAW

Digital twins for stroke victims

Hôpitaux universitaires de Genève (HUG) and Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) will receive CHF 1.8 million from the Swiss…

FOHG

8 startups selected for the Future of Health Grant

The Future of Health Grant received a record-breaking 213 applications in response to its 5th call for projects. These included…

Debiopharm Building 2024

Debiopharm lays the foundation stone for its new building

The new building will have a surface area of 3,500m2 dedicated to the creation of 150 to 300 flexible workstations….

Latsis Prize Prof. Mathis

Latsis Prize: Prof. Mackenzie W. Mathis Awarded

Mackenzie W. Mathis, a professor at EPFL and winner of the Latsis 2024 Swiss Science Prize, is a pioneer in…

The Sense

E-health: The Sense and ZS join forces

The Sense, a Swiss-based academic research and innovation centre, is teaming up with ZS, an international firm renowned for its…

Venture Leaders Medtech

Venture Leaders Medtech: Meet the 2024 Swiss Team

10 promising startups were selected by Venture Leaders Medtech. 3 of them are from the Swiss Health Valley. They will…

Top 100 2024

TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024

This year, 15 startups from the Swiss Health Valley we ranked in the prestigious TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2024,…

Haya Therapeutics team

HAYA Therapeutics Announces $1 billion Collaboration with Lilly

The Biopôle-based biotech company and the American pharma giant partner to discover novel regulatory genome targets for obesity and related…

Fribourg Bak Study Dall-E

Life Sciences account for 10% of the canton of Fribourg economy

According to a BAK Economy study, life sciences generated added value of over CHF 1.5 billion in 2023 and employed…

Plair Team

Plair brings its Rapid-C+ on the market

Rapid-C+, an advanced real-time air microbial detector that sets new standards in environmental monitoring, is now on the market. The…

Clee Medical

Three life sciences projects win FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF) financing

Three innovative projects in the life sciences sectors took home funding from the FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF) in Geneva: two…

SIB Pathogen Centre

The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics has launches the Centre for Pathogen Bioinformatics

The Centre aims to enhance Switzerland’s role in global pathogen bioinformatics research, providing expertise and services to federal authorities and…

Deegtal

dEEGtal receives CHF 10’000 from Venture Kick

dEEGtal, who is developing a software for epilepsy diagnosis, has received Venture Kick’s first financial and entrepreneurial support stage with…

exogem

Exogems secures CHF 500K in seed-stage financing from business angels

Exogems secures CHF 500’000 in seed-stage financing from business angels to advance therapeutic exosome development.     Exogems SA, a…

Juliette HUG

Juliette Lemaignen appointed Director of the Ambulatory Surgery Centre (CCA)

Juliette Lemaignen will take over as director of the Centre for Ambulatory Surgery (CCA) on 1 September 2024. Created jointly…

EPFL brain interface

An entire brain-machine interface on a chip

Researchers from EPFL have developed a next-generation miniaturized brain-machine interface capable of direct brain-to-text communication on tiny silicon chips.  …

Atreon

ATREON awarded first InnoDIGITAL grant

ATREON is the first startup to benefit from PACTT’s new InnoDIGITAL programme, worth CHF 40’000, for the development of an…

Swiss Biotech Center what is series

What is Series: Swiss Biotech Center

Discover the Swiss Biotech Center, a leading research and development center in the field of biotechnology, in GGBa’s “What is…

Sophia Genetics- DMMP plateform

SOPHIA DDM™ plateform certified under IVDR

SOPHiA GENETICS, the healthcare technology company and a global leader in data-driven medicine, announced that its SOPHiA DDM™ Platform is…

Vandria logo

Vandria secures $30.7 Million in Series A funding

Vandria secures $30.7 Million in Series A funding to advance groundbreaking mitophagy therapies.     The Vaud-based company announced the…

CSEM-Andrea dumbar

CSEM announced Andrea Dunbar as new CTO

CSEM announced the appointment of Andrea Dunbar as the new Chief Technology Officer (CTO), effective January 2025. Dunbar will succeed…

itw nasri futurehealth

Biopôle CEO interview with FutureHealth

Biopôle CEO, Nasri Nahas, talks innovation, disruptive models and technology ahead of FutureHealth Lausanne.     Mr Nahas, how is…

EPFL AI protein

EPFL has developed a new AI approach to protein design

EPFL researchers have developed a novel AI-driven model designed to predict protein sequences from backbone scaffolds, incorporating complex molecular environments….

Release Therapeutics

Release Therapeutics secures CHF 3.3 Million in seed funding

The Campus Biotech-based BioMedTech company announced the closure of a CHF 3.3 Million Seed financing round with private investors. The…

SamanTree

SamanTree Medical raises $14 Million in Series B financing round

SamanTree Medical, a leading medical technology company specialising in innovative solutions to improve the outcomes of surgery, announced the closing…

Relief Therapeutics

Relief Therapeutics secures up to $11 Million

Relief Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company committed to delivering innovative treatment options for select specialities, unmet and rare diseases, announced the…

PSI EPFL ray X

New X-ray world record: looking inside a microchip with 4 nanometre precision

In a collaboration with EPFL Lausanne, ETH Zurich and the University of Southern California researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute…

AcImmune new drug

AC Immune unveils novel therapeutic antibody drug conjugate (ADC)

AC Immune, unveiled a novel class of neurodegenerative disease-fighting drug-candidates called morADC (Morphomer® Antibody Drug Conjugate) in a presentation at…

NOA by biped marks successful market entry in Europe and the US

Navigation, Obstacle, Artificial intelligence (NOA) is the new brand name for biped’s AI mobility vest that can guide blind and…

FASS-Oryol

Oryl Photonics is awarded the EIC Transition grant with a European consortium

Oryl Photonics achieved a significant milestone: together with its partners of the FASS – Fast and Accurate Solubility for Sustainability…

UNIGE and HUG are fighting leukaemia by targeting its stem cells

By identifying mechanisms unique to leukaemia-causing cells, a French-Swiss team has discovered a new way to fight the disease.  …

CSEM develops a pioneering implant to support reproductive medicine

Swiss-based start-ups Impli and Yalosys, along with the technology innovation centre CSEM, announce a significant milestone in women’s healthcare—CERES. This…

UNIGE-cell-membrane

UNIGE and UNIFR collaborate in breakthrough cell membranes research

UNIGE scientists have discovered how yeast cells sense physical stresses on the membranes that protect them.     Cell membranes…

Regenosca closes CHF 1Million pre-seed round

Regenosca closes CHF 1Million pre-seed round to demonstrate endoscopic delivery of TissueSpan implants.     Regenosca creates unique bio-implants, enabling…

Swiss Venture Capital Report: CHF 1.1 Billion for Swiss startups

Swiss venture capital financing remained at the low level of the previous year in the first half of 2024, with…

Agora care-round closing

Agora Care raised CHF 2.2 Million

Agora Care, a Campus Biotech-based startup, announced the closing of its round of financing of CHF 2.2 Million    …

Asceneuron-seriesc

Asceneuron secures $100 Million Series C

Asceneuron secures $100 Million Series C financing to advance groundbreaking therapeutics in neurodegenerative diseases.     Asceneuron SA, a clinical…

Csky.ai

Csky.ai Seed closed CHF 1 Million seed round

Swiss Edge AI startup csky.ai has just closed its seed round, exceeding CHF 1 Million of total funding inclusive of…

aspivix Faea

Aspivix among the 15th French American Entrepreneurship Award winners

The French American Entrepreneurship Award (FAEA) has concluded its 15th year by recognizing three exceptional early-stage startups led by French…

CEIDOS-news

CEIDOS secures support from Innosuisse

The BioArk-based startup announced that its innovation project has been approved by the Innosuisse Innovation Council, securing significant funding.  …

Haya therapeutics AT awards

HAYA Therapeutics co-founders win inaugural Andreas & Thomas Struengmann Award

HAYA Therapeutics, SA, announced that HAYA’s Co-Founders Samir Ounzain and Daniel Blessing have received the inaugural Andreas & Thomas Struengmann…

Vanarix raised CHF 4 Million to begin new clinical trials

The Biopôle-based startup recently raised CHF 4 Million from private investors to finance new clinical trials and the implementation of…

Wyss AI partnership

Dandelion Science and the Wyss Center announce AI partnership

The Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering and Dandelion Science announced a partnership focused on a cutting-edge generative AI neuromodulation…

FIT xemperia-aspivix

Aspivix and Xemperia both receive support from FIT

The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) announced two new loans to Aspivix and Xemperia. Aspivix has been awarded a Tech…

How brain decodes other people’s gaze

A UNIGE team has succeeded in determining the exact moment when the brain detects another person’s gaze direction.    …

Actival and Neuria receive CHF 40’000 from Venture Kick

Actival and Neuria Digital Therapeutics were selected at Venture Kick’s second financial and entrepreneurial support stage.     Actival: 3D…

Biotech

Four Swiss Health Valley biotech companies worth keeping an eye out for in 2024

Labiotech.eu, a leading digital media covering the European Biotech industry, published a list of Swiss biotech companies to put on…

Consulto

Consulto secures CHF 400’000 Innosuisse Innovation Grant

EPFL startup, Consulto, has been awarded a CHF 400’000 grant in collaboration with EPFL, CHUV, the University of Basel, and…

challenge qualite de vie du patient

The Patient Quality of Life Challenge announced its finalists

Supported by Debiopharm, La-Solution.ch and the Inartis Foundation, the aim of this award is to support a selection of projects…

iOnctura

iOnctura announces €80 Million Series B

iOnctura, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company combating neglected and hard-to-treat cancers, announced that it has closed an €80 Million Series B…

FONGIT-FIF-heketiss

HekeTiss gets CHF 100’000 seed loan from FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF)

The FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF) in Geneva has awarded new funding to three cutting-edge tech projects including HekeTiss.    …

Aktiia regulatory approval

Aktiia receives regulatory approval

Aktiia, the Swiss startup revolutionizing Blood Pressure (BP) monitoring and management, announces it has received regulatory approval (CE mark) for…

Incaptek EPHJ

INCAPTEK wins Exhibitors’ Grand Prix at EPHJ

The 2024 Exhibitors’ Grand Prix was awarded to Incaptek, a Jura-based company, for its cutting-edge new technology for producing ultra-resistant…

Wyss Center_Brain Monitoring

Wyss Center reported a new breakthrough in brain monitoring

Research teams at the Wyss Center in partnership with, Inselspital unveiled a groundbreaking long-term EEG system that facilitates continuous monitoring…

Relief occulis trial

Oculis just announced positive topline results of phase 2b RELIEF Trial

Oculis, announced positive topline results from its Phase 2b RELIEF trial with licaminlimab, a novel anti-TNFα biologic eye drop with…

Limula raises CHF 6.2 Million

Limula raises CHF 6.2 Million in oversubscribed Seed round to develop automated Cell and Gene Therapy manufacturing platform.    …

Myota

Myota publishes new clinical trial results in pre-diabetes

Myota is thrilled to announce that their results have been published in the prestigious British Journal of Nutrition, and the…

Orio-Therapeuthics

Orio Therapeutics receives CHF 150’000 from Venture Kick

Orio Therapeutics obtains the CHF 150,000 Kick to redefine regenerative medicine through protein engineering.     Orio Therapeutics modifies therapeutic…

Bilan’s 2024 Top 40 entrepreneurs below 40 in Western Switzerland

Bilan Magazine identifies the founders of companies under 40, with sales of CHF 1 million or more.     This…

SIB Profile

SIB Profile 2024 – Data scientists for life

The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) latest activity report sets out how SIB contributes to Switzerland’s influence in the life sciences,…

SwissMedtech new president

Damian Müller elected Swiss Medtech President

Damian Müller was elected President of Swiss Medtech at its last General Meeting. The 39-year-old Council of States member from…

prix strategis -herosupport

HeroSupport wins Prix Strategis

The 31st Prix Strategis closing ceremony crowned start-up Herosupport.     Last night, HeroSupport SA distinguished themselves among 90 innovative…

FIT Impact-winners

Diabète, Même Pas Peur ! wins the FIT Impact grand prize

The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) has awarded its very first FIT Impact award. The Foundation has launched the FIT…

Daav

DAAV secures CHF 1 Million

DAAV, a pioneering startup revolutionising mobility services for people with reduced mobility, announced the successful closure of its first funding…

Testmate health raises 6m

Testmate Health raises $6 Million

Testmate Health announced the successful closing of their $6 Million funding round led by RH Capital to continue their development…

iOnctura partners with the Dutch Cancer Society

iOnctura announced that they have been awarded funding from the KWF Kankerbestrijding / Dutch Cancer Society to further the development…

aspivix-first transcervical

Aspivix announced first gynaecological procedures performed in the US

The Biopôle-based startup announced a groundbreaking achievement in the United States with the first patients benefiting from successful IUD placement…

HCK-partners-lucida

HealthCare Konnect and Lucida Medical announce strategic partnership for prostate cancer diagnosis

Healthcare Konnect (HCK) and Lucida Medical partner to extend the distribution of Innovative AI-driven technology, PiTM, for prostate cancer detection,…

RA 2023 vaud

Vaud Economic Affairs 2023 annual report

Performance and stability characterise the 2023 report published by the Office for Economic Affairs and Innovation (SPEI).     Despite…

RIS-SO

Explore the Regional Innovation System of Western Switzerland (RIS-SO)

Find out how the Western Switzerland Regional Innovation System (RIS-SO) supports SMEs and start-ups in Western Switzerland.     BioAlps…

UNIGE-new anticoagulant

A new anticoagulant with no risk of bleeding

A UNIGE team, in collaboration with the University of Sydney, has developed a new type of anticoagulant whose action can…

Spineart-logo

Spineart and SpinEM Robotics forge strategic partnership with €10 Million Investment

Spineart’s journey towards innovation and leadership in the field of spinal surgery continues. The Geneva-based company announced a strategic partnership…

SeedNight Bipeid

biped.ai wins the Startup Champions Seed Night 2024

Life sciences shone during the 13th edition of the Startup Champions Seed Night gathering more than 500 people at the…

Azur Cell Therapies and Antion Biosciences get funding from FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF)

The FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF) continues to bolster the growth of new technologies in Geneva, with its latest grants awarded…

HUG - Robert Mardini

Robert Mardini will be the new Director General of the University Hospital of Geneva (HUG)

The Geneva cantonal government has confirmed the appointment of Robert Mardini as Director General of the University Hospital of Geneva…

Isospec-FIT

Isospec Analytics get support from FIT

IsoSpec Analytics, specialising in advanced biomolecular analysis, receives a Tech Seed loan of CHF 100’000 from the Foundation for Technological…

HES-SO Valais-Wallis-education

The HES-SO strengthens life sciences education and research in the Canton of Valais

The HES-SO Valais-Wallis School of Engineering is expanding its training and research offering in the life sciences, marking an important…

ASPIVIX - bayer schweiz

ASPIVIX announces a growth partnership with Bayer (Schweiz) AG

ASPIVIX announces its partnership with Bayer (Schweiz) AG in Switzerland, aimed at transforming gynaecological procedures. Together, they are introducing Carevix™,…

Adrian Hunn appointed Swiss Medtech Managing Director

The Swiss Medtech Board of Directors has selected Adrian Hunn to be new Managing Director. The 45-year-old will assume his…

Addex-neurosterix

Addex and Perceptive launch Neurosterix with USD 63 Million investment

Geneva-based Addex Therapeutics and funds affiliated with Perceptive Advisors, an investment management firm focused on the life sciences sector, today…

Voluminia Medical

Volumina Medical secures USD 21 Million Funding

Volumina Medical, a clinical stage MedTech company developing novel biomaterials for dermatology and plastic surgery, announces the successful closing of…

Venture leaders - biotech 24

Venture Leaders Biotech unveils its 2024 cohort for the Boston roadshow

The Swiss National Startup Team has selected its 10 startups for the Venture Leaders Biotech 2024. The entrepreneurs will meet…

UNIGE-cystic fibrosis

UNIGE discovers why infections persist after cystic fibrosis treatment

A UNIGE team discovered that treatment for cystic fibrosis does not eliminate the docking stations of bacteria responsible for respiratory…

Orio therapeutics

Orio Therapeutics Secures CHF 500’000 Pre-Seed Funding

Orio Therapeutics, a biotechnology company at the forefront of protein engineering for regenerative medicine, announced the successful closure of a…

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The crucial role of trademark and patent registration for startups

With more than 50 years’ experience, Katzarov advise companies and entrepreneurs on all matters related to intellectual property (IP). Thanks…

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Anna Fontcuberta i Morral to be the next EPFL president

Professor Fontcuberta i Morral will be the first woman to lead a Swiss Federal Institute of Technology since they were…

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EPFL is locating single neurons that monitor and regulate the heart and lungs

EPFL neuroscientists have located single neurons in a deep structure of the brain that regulates the heart and the lungs,…

e-health-eu-project

The HES-SO Valais-Wallis Institute of Informatics will lead a European project

The Institute of Informatic’s eHealth research cluster has been awarded scientific coordination of the European Hereditary project.     The…

Spineart-baguera

Spineart successfully raised a CHF20 Million convertible financing

Spineart secures more than CHF 20 Million in convertible financing following completion of BAGUERA® C IDE studies enrolment.    …

GGBa report 2023

GGBA 2023 report confirms Western Switzerland’s appeal to foreign companies

17 foreign companies have joined the Swiss Health Valley in 2023, with the prospect of creating more than 150 jobs…

Lonza expansion US

Lonza acquires a new manufacturing site in the US

Lonza, a global manufacturing partner to the pharmaceutical, biotech and nutraceutical markets, announced the signing of an agreement to acquire…

ERC grants

Researchers based in Switzerland can once again apply for ERC grants

As negotiations between the EU and Switzerland have been officially launched today, researchers based in Switzerland can now once again…

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Alithea Genomics closes CHF 2.8 Million in seed financing extension

This milestone marks a significant step forward in the company’s journey to revolutionise large-scale RNA sequencing and transcriptomics.    …

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PeriVision announces FDA registration for its medical software VisionOne™

PeriVision, proudly announces its recent FDA registration for its first medical software product VisionOne.     This significant milestone marks…

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Pristem affordable radiology thrives in South Africa

A few months ago, Pristem’s South African subsidiary opened its first state-of-the-art, affordable radiology center in the township of Alexandra….

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US FDA grants Orphan Drug Designation for iOnctura’s Autotaxin cancer therapy

iOnctura’s autotaxin inhibitor cambritaxestat for the treatment of pancreatic cancer gets Orphan Drug Designation (ODD) by the US FDA.  …

Debiopharm-wee1

Debiopharm launches expansion of WEE1 inhibitor

Debiopharm aims to further characterise the safety, tolerability, and preliminary anti-tumour activity of its potent WEE1 inhibitor Debio 0123 as…

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Collaboration between ABCDx and Andalusian Hospitals

ABCDx is collaborating with Andalusian hospitals to improve stroke triage inside ambulances.     Thanks to a public-private grant from…

International women days

Six women-centred initiatives you should know about

From successful entrepreneurs to academics and industry leaders, the Swiss Health Valley is full of inspirational women working in life…

HUG-RLT

A multidisciplinary HUG team launches a new study of innovative radioligand therapy (RLT)

A new radioligand to treat glioblastoma and digestive tumors evaluated as a world first at the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG)….

Terapet receives EUR 1.68 Million Eurostars grant

Terapet announced the receipt of a non-dilutive grant totalling approximately EUR 1.68 Million from the European Commission through the Eurostars…

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Artiria Medical, Planny and Algorized receive support from FIT

The three startups have received financial support from the Foundation for technological innovation (FIT). Artiria Medical gets a Tech Growth…

Dopamine

Dopamine production is not behind vulnerability to cocaine abuse

A UNIGE team shows that our ability to produce dopamine – the «happiness hormone» – is not correlated with increased…

Agora Care celebrates 10’000 patients and a new collaboration with Caduceo

The Campus biotech startup, recruited over 10’000 patients on its Agora Care platform.     This marks an inflection point…

FONGIT FIF

FONGIT Innovation Fund (FIF) awards funding to Geneva-based tech projects

A seed loan of CHF 100,000 has been granted to previous FIF Grant laureate and HUG spinoff HeroSupport. One grant…

Artiria Medical

Artiria Medical successfully secures USD 6 Million

Artiria Medical secures funding to complete its clinical studies in stroke in both Europe and the Us, following promising first…

Leenaards prize

Leenaards Prize awarded to two CHUV research groups

The two Leenards scientific prizes were awarded to research groups led by CHUV researchers.     Each year, the Leenards…

New Biologix - licensing

NewBiologix announced a licensing agreement with Florabio AS

NewBiologix SA announced a licensing agreement with Florabio AS to genetically engineer their proprietary HEK293 cell line.     NewBiologix’s…

Aktiaa secures 27M

Aktiia secures CHF 27 Million

The Neuchâtel-based startup secures CHF 27 Million (USD 30M) in funding from Khosla Ventures and Others.     Aktiia mission…

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Future of Health Grant unveils its March 2024 cohort

Startups Resilient SA and Maven Health are among the eight new startups selected by the Future of Health Grant (FoHG)…

ArgaMedtech-series b

Argá Medtech SA closes oversubscribed Series B

Argá Medtech announces €54 Million oversubscribed series B capital raise.     The round was led by the existing investors,…

Prix strategis

Two life sciences startups shortlisted for the 31st Prix Strategis

Testmate Health and Seprify are among the eight semi-finalists of this year’s Prix Strategis.     Every year for almost…

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Abionic appoints Patrick Pestalozzi as new CEO to propel company into next growth phase

Abionic SA, a Swiss leader in nanofluidic point-of-care diagnostic solutions, announced the appointment of Patrick Pestalozzi as its new CEO,…

CSEM bioreactor

CSEM and ClexBio create a bioreactor to manufacture tissue-engineered cardiovascular implants

A new type of bioreactor that can grow human veins in the lab has been developed by CSEM and ClexBio,…

Biopole review 2023

The Biopôle Review – 2023 edition

Check out all the key figures from Biopôle’s community, inspiring interviews and more in their latest review.     Biopôle,…

Atinary-takeda-partnership

Atinary and Takeda collaborate to drive innovation in healthcare

Atinary Technologies, a Vaud based startup, announced a strategic collaboration with Takeda, Japanese largest pharmaceutical company.     This partnership…

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Innovative materials to combat bacteria

A UNIGE team is developing new alloys with bactericidal properties to combat antibiotic-resistant germs.     While crucial to biotechnology,…

Alys Pharmaceuticals

Alys Pharmaceuticals launches with $100 Million financing from Medicxi

Formed through the aggregation of six-asset centric Medicxi companies, including Aldena Therapeutics, Alys boasts a robust R&D pipeline of cutting-edge…

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler BioAlps President

“Bringing meaning back to the healthcare professionals”

Appointed Dean of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Geneva, Professor Antoine Geissbuhler, is also Director of Teaching…

Multiwave technologies

Multiwave Technologies partners with Aix Marseille University

Multiwave Technologies brings to market a portable MRI device powered by metamaterial technologies and AI software. ​ The partnership includes joint research…

BioSpectal

Monitor your blood pressure with OptiBP, a Biospectal application

Patients can measure their blood pressure in 30 seconds by placing their fingertip on the camera lens of a smartphone….

BioLizard

BioLizard chooses Biopôle for its Swiss subsidiary

BioLizard is a Belgian bioinformatics, data analytics and data management service and consulting company heading digital transformation in the life…

Oryl Photonics

Oryl Photonics raises CHF 830,000 in seed funding

The Vaud-based startup announces the successful conclusion of a CHF 830,000 seed fundraising. The round is backed by Swiss investors,…

CSEM Inventor Award

CSEM Inventor Award granted to spaceCoder

Shedding Light on Precision: CSEM spaceCoder technology is a game changer in the field of precision measurement     In…

GeNeuro

Successful € 5 Million Capital Increase for GeNeuro

GeNeuro, a Geneva-based biopharmaceutical company focusing on treatments for neurodegenerative and autoimmune diseases, including multiple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis…

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Nicolas Durand appointed Director of the Campus Biotech Foundation in Geneva

Dr Nicolas Durand will step down from his CEO role at Abionic on 29 February to be at the steering…

Swiss Venture Capital Report

CHF 870 Million invested in Swiss medtech and biotech companies

In the midst of an unfavourable environment, the life sciences’ sector continues to attract investors in Switzerland according to the…

Debiopharm

Debiopharm and TransCode Therapeutics Collaborate to Develop Targeted Nucleic Acid Therapeutics for Cancer

TransCode Therapeutics is a RNA oncology company based in the United States committed to more effectively treating cancer using RNA…

InvestPro Programme Vaud

Vaud: a CHF 90 Million plan to tackle the shortage of healthcare staff

The Vaud State Council has drawn up a CHF 90 Million “far-reaching plan” to meet the challenges presented by the…

Transmutex

Transmutex raises CHF 20 Million

The Geneva-based company, founded in 2019, has secured new funding to further develop its research into safer, cleaner and cheaper…

Pfizer Foundation Prize

Pfizer Research Prize: 3 Researchers From The Swiss Health Valley Awarded

13 young researchers from Fribourg, Geneva, Basel, Bern, and Zurich have won a 2024 Pfizer Research Award.   Since 1992,…

Prof. Jabaudon

The Roger de Spoelberch Prize Awarded to a UNIGE Researcher

Professor Denis Jabaudon, Director of the Department of Basic Neuroscience and member of the Synapsy Center for Neuroscience Research in…

Lonza Visp

Lonza Achieves Strong Financial Results in 2023 Amid Leadership Transition

The Swiss CDMO announces robust sales of CHF 6.7 billion, delivering 10.9%1 CER sales growth, and the nomination of Jean-Marc…

Stämm

Stämm chooses Valais to set up its European team

The Argentinian biomanufacturing innovator is launching its R&D facility at the BioArk in Monthey     Founded in 2016 in…

PhenomX Health

PhenomX Health and Issviva launch a programme to help women manage Stress and Sleep during Menopause

In a pioneering partnership, Issviva Menopause and the Swiss startup PhenomX Health have united their expertise to empower women navigating…

LightHouse

The Lighthouse Partnership: a Swiss cooperation to propel AI-Guided Neuromodulation

This 4 years partnership is funded with CHF 18 Million from the Wyss Center, and involves EPFL Neuro X Institute,…

Fluosphera

FluoSphera is awarded a CHF 1.1 million grant from Innosuisse

FluoSphera S.A., a biotechnology company developing versatile and disruptive in-vitro solutions for drug discovery to predict drug efficacy and safety…

FIT - Jan 2024

Maven Health, NeoSens and NADUP supported by the FIT

Three life science projects have received support from the Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) in the form of Tech Grants:…

Novostia_implantation

First-in-Human implantation for Novostia’s heart valve

The Vaud-based startup, located at the Biopôle, successfully implanted its TRIFLO valve in a human.     Novostia, a pioneering…

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Debiopharm Innovation Fund invests in MedaSystems

MedaSystems secures additional funding from Debiopharm Innovation Fund to accelerate global access to pre-approval treatment.     Medasystems, a pioneer…

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FIT loans CHF 500,000 to Doppl and CHF 100,000 to Rea Diagnostics

DOPPL, a leader in organoid engineering for disease modelling and personalised medicine, has received a Tech Growth loan of CHF…

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Cellestia secures a CHF 2 Million grant from Innosuisse

The Biopôle based startup was awarded an Innosuisse Grant to advance a groundbreaking Graft versus Host Disease prevention therapy.  …

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Calypso enters into agreement to be acquired by Novartis

Calypso’s shareholders will receive an upfront payment of $250 Million upon closing and are eligible to receive up to $175…

Timeline

Timeline raises CHF56 Million and partners with L’Oréal

Already backed by Nestlé, the Swiss Health Valley startup co-founded by former EPFL President Patrick Aebischer, now counts a second…

Debiotech

Debiotech launches its engineering house

New year, new challenges! Debiotech, a leader in medical technologies based in Lausanne – Switzerland, announces the launch of its…

Tune Insight Team

Tune Insight leads a €1.8 Million project for data collaboration in paediatric emergency units

The EPFL spin-off has created a technology able to move past privacy and security issues for data sharing. The project,…

Stalicla SA

Stalicla Secures $17.4 Million in Series B Financing

The Geneva-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company is advancing precision medicine pipelines for neuropsychiatric and neurological disorders     STALICLA announces the…

The Sense Baby Study

Babies prefer human voices

The brains of 4-month-old babies respond preferentially to the human voice over sounds from their environment. This is confirmed by…

Kickfund Venture

Kickfund Ventures: CHF 70 Million for Swiss deeptech startups

The fund, backed by a diverse group of investors, including anchor investors Ernst Göhner Stiftung and Gebert Rüf Stiftung, will…

Socorex and CSEM

Socorex wins the CSEM Digital Health Journey Award

This SME based in Ecublens (VD), is a world leader in development and manufacture of high-end precision dosing instruments for…

Ferring

Ferring and PharmaBiome enter into a new microbiome R&D collaboration and exclusive licensing agreement

Collaboration leverages the proven development and commercial capability of Ferring with PharmaBiome’s compelling technology to research, develop and manufacture novel…

The Swiss HealthTech Center in Biel

Thanks to its location, diverse culture, extensive experience and infrastructure, Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne (SIPBB) is the perfect platform to…

Fongit Innovation Fund

4 life sciences projects supported by the FIF

Four Geneva-based technology projects have won funding from the Fongit Innovation Fund (FIF) for their innovations. A seed loan of…

ASPIVIX

ASPIVIX receives CE Mark approval for Carevix™

ASPIVIX, announced that carevix™, its novel Cervical Stabilizer, has attained CE marking. This next generation medtech device for routine procedures…

Gliapharm

Alzheimer Research: Gliapharm raises CHF 3.65 Million

The Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation (ADDF) invests CHF 3.64 Million in GliaPharm to advance its lead programme to accelerate the…

Aesyra

Aesyra raises CHF 2.6 Million

The Vaud-based and EPFL spin-off develops oral appliances preventing sleep bruxism and sleep apnea. The seed financing round was led…

Vandria

Vandria Announces a CHF 18 Million Fundraising

The $20.6M (CHF 18M) round was led by ND Capital together with a small syndicate of HNW private investors. The…

NEWS BIOPOLE

What all life sciences start-ups should know about fundraising

The Biopôle campus in Lausanne brings together some of the world’s most innovative life sciences companies. But how does an…

Haleon PVEI

Haleon awarded by the Prix Vaudois des Entreprises Internationales (PVEI)

Haleon, a former division of GSK that became independent in 2022, won the jury’s award in the “Foreign company” category….

Orio Therapeuthics

A CHF 40,000 Grant from Venture Kick to Orio Therapeuthics

Orio Therapeutics has won a CHF 40,000 Venture Kick prize, alongside KIDEMIS and Rheo, with a project designed to reduce…

AC Immune

Dr. Madiha Derouazi becomes AC Immune’s CSO

Dr. Madiha Derouazi is the founder of the Swiss biotech AMAL Therapeutics and the former CEO of German-based company Speransa…

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A CHF 2.5 Million Grant for Diatheris

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust in the United States supports the Diatheris project, a UNIGE spin-off…

LLM EPFL

EPFL publishes a Large Language Model for medical knowledge

Researchers at EPFL’s Faculty of Computer Science and Communications have developed two large language models (LLMs) specialising in the healthcare…

Siegfried - Marcel Signer

Siegfried in Evionnaz: 150 years of pharmaceutical innovation

About fifty people from the Swiss Health Valley had the chance to visit the Siegfried production site in Evionnaz, during…

B Levrat HUG

Bertrand Levrat leaves the HUG

Bertrand Levrat, CEO of the University Hospitals of Geneva, joins Mediclinic, a private group   Bertrand Levrat, Chief Executive Officer…

Senbiosys Velia Smart Ring

Velia Smart Ring raises already CHF 1.5 Million

After raising CHF 622,672 on Kickstarter, Senbiosys launched another campaign on Indiegogo and already raised about CHF 1.5 Million for…

Digisanté

CHF 400 Million for Digisanté, a programme to transform the Swiss Healthcare system

The Swiss Federal Council wants to start Digisanté, a programme for the digital transformation of the healthcare system. The aim…

Biped.ai

Biped.ai raises CHF 1,2 Million

The EPFL spin-off created a harness acting as a copilot for visually-impaired people     “This funding round will help…

ProSeed

ProSeed wins a CHF 100,000 loan from FIT

Giving a second life to brewing by-products     ProSeed’s mission is to transform the Swiss food industry by upcycling…

Sitem Insel - DIC

A moving X-Ray Machine for research on joints and bones

Sitem-insel has inaugurated Europe’s inaugural Dynamic Imaging Center (DIC). This cutting-edge laboratory captures X-ray images of individuals in motion, presenting a…

Mara Graziani

Mara Graziani receives the prestigious Latsis Prize

Mara Graziani, research assistant at the HES-SO Valais-Wallis, has been awarded the prestigious Latsis prize worth CHF 25,000, which rewards…

FIF Nov 2023

TheraPPi Bioscience, MPC Therapeutics SA and dEEgtal awarded by the FIF

The Fongit Innovation Fund (FIF) has awarded three Geneva-based life sciences projects for their groundbreaking innovations.     A seed…

CSEM Insel Partnership

A new medtech hub in Bern

The Canton of Bern wants to establish itself as a leading international medical location by 2030. To achieve this, the…

Comphya

Comphya SA announce successful inaugural surgery for erectile dysfunction in Spinal Cord Injury Patients

The first implantation of CaverSTIM, the medical devices invented by Swiss company Comphya, in spinal cord injury individuals has been…

BioAlps Awards 2023

BioAlps Awards 2023

Dr. Hervé Bourlard receive the BioAlps Academia Award, and Dr. Igor Fish and Dr Nicolas Mermod receive the BioAlps Industry Award.

.Neurorestore

An implant to restore walking in Parkinson’s patients

Neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from EPFL/CHUV/UNIL, Inserm and the University of Bordeaux have designed a neuroprosthesis to correct the gait disorders…

Novochizol SA

Cancer Research: CHF 1.1 Million for Novochizol SA

Cancer: EPFL and Novochizol SA to collaborate on designing more efficient immunotherapies, with the support of Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency.

Debiotech

DEBIOTECH, your local expert and partner for the development of medical devices

Debiotech is delighted to support catalysing innovation and advancing healthcare. The Swiss medtech company is proud to be part & contribute to BioAlps Networking Day 2023 on 9 November 2023 at Campus Biotech.

Mass Challenge Award 2023

Impossible Materials wins the Mass Challenge Diamond Prize

The University of Fribourg chemtech spin-off has been granted CHF 120,000 in cash. The start-up provides cellulose white pigment solutions…

HUG Award

HUG wins award for smarter medicine in intensive care

At the 46th World Hospital Congress organised by the International Hospital Federation (IHF), the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) received…

FIT Impact: 3 life sciences projects awarded

The first cohort to benefit from FIT Impact is now known. This programme run by the Foundation for Technological Innovation…

Abionic

LASCCO SA and Abionic SA announce a partnership to commercialize a sepsis diagnostic solution in China

LASCCO SA and Abionic SA, both based in Biopôle in Epalinges, announced that they have signed a licensing agreement with…

FONGIT - FIF Oct 2023

EarlySight SA and ArtemiX Biotech SA supported by the FIF

Two Geneva-based life sciences startups have been awarded the Fongit Innovation Fund (FIF) for their innovative projects. A seed loan has…

Debiopharm Valais

Debiopharm invests CHF 30 million in a life sciences building in Valais

This new facility will host some 2400 m2 of research laboratories, in Martigny where Debiopharm’s workforce jumped from 150 to…

HUG Innovation DAY 2023

HUG Innovation Day: A Pioneer Of New Therapies For Deafness Awarded

On the occasion of their 17th Innovation Day, held on 19 October, the Geneva University Hospitals (HUG), in partnership with…

Lagosta

Lagosta partners with Merck for the distribution of Chitosan

LAGOSTA S.A. announces that it has entered into a collaboration with the global science and technology company Merck for the…

Ibex™ Lonza facilit in Visp Switzerland

Lonza: 300 jobs in Visp for a new vaccine

Lonza’s Visp site is preparing to manufacture components of a vaccine to protect against pneumococcus. Hundreds of jobs are at…

Hedera Dx

Hedera Dx Launches Blood Based Cancer Testing

Hedera Dx, a Vaud-based oncology company specializing in liquid biopsy testing, has unveiled a fully streamlined solution that allows hospitals…

SOPHiA GENETICS

SOPHiA GENETICS Enters New Collaboration with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and AstraZeneca

The three companies will collaborate to address global inequalities in comprehensive cancer care, and to improve global access to advanced…

Emovo Care

Emovo Care receives a CHF 100’000 FIT loan

The FIT (Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique) in Canton of Vaud supports Emovo Care with a FIT Tech Seed loans of…

Limula BioTools Innovators

Limula wins the $250,000 BioTools Innovator Grand Prize

BioTools Innovator, a Los Angeles-based accelerator focused on life science tools companies, awarded Limula the grand prize of the BioTools…

CNS Therapy

CNS Therapy secures a CHF 1.1 Million investment

The Jura-based start-up, CNS Therapy, has raised a seed round funding totalling CHF 1 Million from private investors and CHF…

Smartcardia

SmartCardia received FDA clearance for its ECG monitoring patch and cloud platform

The EPFL-spin-off created the SmartCardia’s 7L patch, an easy-to-wear, cable-free, waterproof device that can be used for continuous monitoring for…

DayOne Tech

4 new Medtech Start-Ups join the DayOne Tech Accelerator in Canton of Jura

The DayOne Tech accelerator for medtech project is a pillar of the Jura’s medical technology economy. Four new start-ups joined…

Chuv Lymphoedema

Innovations at the CHUV in the treatment of lymphoedema

Swelling of one or more limbs as a result of lymphoedema – a common but little-understood condition – affects one…

Terapet + Korean

CHF 3 Million for Terapet and two South Korea partners

Terapet SA together with their South Korean partners Yonsei Cancer Center (Heavy Ion Therapy Center) and Oncosoft Inc. are awarded…

Mimix Biotherapeutics

A CHF multimillion investment for Mimix Biotherapeutics

Mimix Biotherapeutics in Biel (Bern) secures significant investment to translate and commercialize a new treatment technique for human tissue regeneration….

BioArk 3rd Building

BioArk Monthey: a 3rd building dedicated to life sciences and biotechnologies

BioArk is on a roll! The Monthey-based technology site, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, inaugurated its third…

Lonza Visp

Lonza further expands in Visps thanks to a new partnership

A new agreement with an undisclosed global biopharmaceutical partner will quadruple current dedicated bioconjugation capacity by adding two new production…

Novostia

Novostia starts clinical trials of its new heart valve in Lituania

Novostia has received the green light from the Lithuanian State Health Care Accreditation Agency under the Ministry of Health to…

Medicrops

Medicrops acquires Swiss Alpinopharma

A strategic move to enhance digital patient care in the booming European cannabis market.     MediCrops Holding AG (‘MediCrops’),…

Aerium Therapeutics

Covid-19 Research: Aerium Therapeutics begins development of three in-licensed antibodies

Aerium Therapeutics, a company based in Lausanne and Boston, focuses on the development of antiviral therapeutics for COVID-19 and emerging…

Cancer Research: HES-SO Valais-Wallis and Debiopharm sign a partnership

The Life Technologies Institute of the Haute École d’Ingénierie has signed a new five-year collaboration agreement with Debiopharm Research &…

Professeur Nicolas Thomä

Cancer Research: ISREC Foundation and EPFL announce the creation of the Paternot Chair

The chair will be held by Professor Nicolas Thomä. The ISREC Foundation is contributing to the funding of the Chair…

HeroSupport

HeroSupport wins a CHF 150,000 Venture Kick Grant

The HUG and UNIGE spin-off wants to improve cancer treatment universal access with tailored patient-positioning medical devices and standardized workflows….

Tune Insight

Tune Insight raises CHF 3,1 Million

The round is led by 14Peaks Capital, with participation from investors including Inflection.xyz, Debiopharm Innovation Fund and Zurich Cantonal Bank….

Nagi Biocience

Nagi Bioscience secures CHF 12.4 Million Investment

Nagi Bioscience, a Swiss life sciences company developing next-generation laboratory equipment to unlock the full potential of alternatives to animal…

Debiopharm Innovation Fund

Debiopharm Innovation Fund: a new seed fund dedicated to Digital Health

Debiopharm Innovation Fund, the strategic investment arm of Swiss biopharmaceutical company Debiopharm, with $150 million under management, announces the launch…

Atinary

Atinary Technologies raises CHF 4.6 Million

The Biopôle-based start-up has developed a machine learning platform dedicated to materials discovery. The seed-round was round led by AgFunder…

Future of Health Grant

Future Health Grant – 9 new projects selected

This great Swiss Health Valley🇨🇭 initiative was started by CSS and EPFL Innovation Park to promote Medicine 3.0. The 9…

Future Health Lausanne

Future Health Lausanne, an opportunity for the Swiss Health Valley

Future Health Lausanne is taking place on 3 October 2023 at the Swisstech Convention Center in Lausanne. The event is…

Adiposs

Adiposs SA announced the completion of the phase I clinical trial of its ImageBAT™

Adiposs SA, a Swiss biotech company developing medical imaging products and technologies, announced the completion of the phase I clinical…

ADDEX Therapeutics

A consortium led by Addex Therapeutics secures a €4 million Eurostars grant

The Geneva-based pharmaceutical company will use the grant to support its programme for mild neurocognitive disorders (mNCD).     The…

Multiwave technologies

Multiwave raises CHF 3.8 Million

Geneva-based deeptech startup Multiwave Technologies SA, led by Tryfon and Panos Antonakakis, is attracting new capital that will be dedicated…

Unige Cancer cells

Swiss Cancer Center Léman found a way to boost artificial immune cells to fight cancer

A team of Swiss researchers has discovered a way of prolonging the efficacy of CAR-T cells in immunotherapy for the…

Mecaplast Swiss - 4à6

A visit at Mecaplast Swiss

Over the decades, Mecaplast Swiss has extended its offering beyond plastic injection per-say. The company may collaborate as early as the design phase, up to shipping fully finished products to its clients across the globe. The new ISO 7 clean room strengthens the offer as it is mainly be dedicated to the post-injection operations, assembly, finishing and packaging to meet the fast-growing demand of the MedTech industry.

Ibex™ Lonza facilit in Visp Switzerland

Lonza to stop producing Moderna vaccine in Visp

Production of the Moderna serum will cease at Visp in the canton of Valais. In addition, Lonza’s Managing Director, Pierre-Alain…

Socorex - 60 years

Socorex, 60 years of success in precision volumetry

The story begins in 1963, in Canton of Vaud (Switzerland) with the know-how gathering of small companies active in manufacturing…

CUTISS AG

CUTISS AG launches its Series C funding round

CUTISS AG, a Swiss company specialising in regenerative skin medicine and tissue engineering, has announced the launch of its Series…

Grand Prix Economie Genevoise

Amal Therapeutics wins Geneva Innovation Prize

Les Grands Prix de l’économie 2023 are organised by the CCIG, with the support of the State of Geneva and…

Hybrid Brain Cell Unil and Wyss Center

A new brain cell discovered by Swiss researchers

The two major families of cells that make up the brain, neurons and glial cells, secretly hid a hybrid cell,…

100 startups

HAYA Therapeutics is Switzerland’s most promising startup

The 13th edition of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award celebrated Switzerland’s best startups according to a 100-person strong jury:…

Antion Biosciences

A breakthrough in the US for Antion Biosciences SA

Antion Biosciences SA (Antion), an innovative developer of cell and gene therapy technologies, announces the granting of a significant patent…

HCK Coreline

Healthcare Konnect (HCK) and Coreline Europe GmbH start a partnership

Healthcare Konnect (HCK) and Coreline Europe GmbH start a new partnership to amplify the inherent value of diagnostic accuracy.  …

Agora Care Pristem SA

Agora Care partners with PRISTEM SA

Two Western Switzerland startups join forces to revolutionize medical imaging   Agora Care is a Geneva-based company developing a patient-centered…

UNIGE Highway Code Cell

Deciphering the “highway code” of our cells

A team from UNIGE has identified a new process governing the growth of the ‘roads’ that enable cells to thrive….

ten23health

ten23 health expands sterile manufacturing capacity at its VIVA 1® facility in Visp

ten23 health®, a global contract development and manufacturing organization, announced a capacity expansion for the manufacture of sterile drug product…

Diatheris

CHF 40,000 For Diatheris

The Geneva-based biotech startup won Venture Kick’s second stage of financial and entrepreneurial support. The project aims to achieve optimal…

Neurosoft Bioelectronics 1

First in Human Recording of Brain Activities Achieved by Neurosoft Bioelectronics

The Swiss start-up created a stretchable high-channel electrode grid that was successfully used in a first-in-human clinical study in a…

CHUV@home

CHUV@home: an application to monitor patients after surgery

Nearly 1,800 people have already used the CHUV@home application since it was launched in 2021. Patients who have undergone surgery…

Campus Santé Sion

Pôle Santé Campus in Sion – Foundation stone laid

The Pôle Santé Campus in Valais will bring together on the same site training activities in health and social work,…

Genolier Innovation Hub

Genolier Innovation Hub: an ambitious medical center

In the heart of the Swiss Health Valley, the holding company AEVIS VICTORIA SA is investing more than CHF 100…

Alzheimer UNIGE HUG

A tool for predicting the future of Alzheimer’s patients

A team from the University and the HUG has determined which imaging technique is best for early detection of the…

Venture Leaders Medtech 2023

10 medtech projects were selected to join the Swiss National Startup team that will travel to Boston and Cambridge next…

Bearmind FIT

Bearmind reaches CHF 2 million funding

The start-up develops sensors and algorithms to provide a real-time assessment of the risk of concussion for professional athletes.  …

PhenomX Health SA

An app to empower women during their menopause

PhenomX Health SA, a femtech start–up based in Biopôle, launches a wellness and precision nutrition app for menopause care in Switzerland,…

UNIGE - oncology

UNIGE scientists identified genes involved in the progression of cancer

Tissues, blood vessels, cells: tumours develop in a complex ecosystem known as the tumour microenvironment.  A team from the University…

Gaia Tech AG

Gaia Tech AG raises CHF 480,000

The Bern-based start-up extracts natural antioxidants from agricultural waste and has successfully closed its pre-seed funding round with SICTIC business angels, Venture…

Epiterna

Epiterna raised €10 Million

The longetivity start-up, based at Biopôle, is funded by Prima Materia, the investment firm founded by Spotify founder Daniel Ek and…

Swissmedic

MRA between Switzerland and the USA in the area of Good Manufacturing Practice for medicinal products takes effect

The Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) between Switzerland and the United States in the area of Good Manufacturing Practice for medicinal…

Medicxi

Medicxi announces a $400m fund for life sciences projects

Medicxi, a leading European life sciences investment firm, announces its $400 million Medicxi IV fund. The new fund will continue…

CHUV - heart transplant

CHUV: a child on bi-ventricular cardiac assistance could be weaned off the machine and avoid a heart transplant

After spending a year in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at CHUV, a 4-year-old boy did not need a heart…

Givaudan Dairy Alternatives

Givaudan expands its Protein Hub in Zurich to create dairy alternatives

Geneva-based Givaudan has expanded the Protein Hub at its flagship Zurich Innovation Centre in Kemptthal, to support the growth of dairy…

Biopôle start-up fund

Sulfiscon and biped.ai recipients of the Biopôle Start-up Fund

The fund offers up to CHF 90,000 a year, over three consecutive years, to promising life sciences ventures.    …

Perivision

PeriVision raises between CHF 0.5 and 1 Million in a Seed Round

PeriVision is utilizing the power of artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality (VR), and cloud computing to redefine eye testing and…

HUG HIV

A patient in remission from HIV after a bone marrow transplant

The HUG and the Institut Pasteur have announced an exceptional case of HIV remission. A promising discovery.   The patient…

biped.ai

Biped wins the Prix de la canne blanche

The Swiss Central Union for the Blind (UCBA) awards projects for blind, partially sighted and deaf-blind people. Twenty-one projects were…

Magali Bischof, BioAlps' Secretary General is interviewed by Benjamin Smadja during the 13 World Chambers congress organised by CCIG Geneva. Watch the video from 18'00. 

The Swiss Health Valley Region on One TV

Magali Bischof, BioAlps’ Secretary General is interviewed by Benjamin Smadja during the 13 World Chambers congress organised by CCIG Geneva. Watch…

ten23health

ten23 health announces expansion with the launch of quality control services

ten23 health® announces the launch of “quality control” service offerings in Switzerland for release and stability testing of clinical and…

Comphya

Comphya SA launches clinical study for erectile dysfunction in Brazil

After raising CHF 850 000 in January, and starting a clinical trial in Australia, the Swiss Medtech startup launches a…

4à6 La Tour

Innovation at Hôpital de la Tour

On Thursday 1 June, the Swiss Health Valley Community was received by Hôpital de la Tour in Meyrin during a…

Le Temps - Medtech

Le Temps – Medtechs still trapped in European reform on medical devices

Medical technology companies are still grappling with the new rules on healthcare devices and diagnostics, two years after they came…

Oncolifestyle - Debiopharm

Oncolifestyle, Debiopharm’s website to empower people living with cancer

The Swiss-based biopharmaceutical company launches a new online portal to support people with cancer, with an initial focus on prostate…

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler BioAlps President

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler appointed Dean of UNIGE Faculty of Medicine

BioAlps President, Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler, takes a new position. He is now at the helm of UNIGE Faculty of Medicine….

CHUV Immunotherapy

CHUV launches a new cellular immunotherapy to treat acute myeloid leukemia

This subtype of cancer, which is particularly aggressive in children and frequent in adults, responds poorly to current standard treatments….

Gender Medicine

Gender medicine: Switzerland invests CHF11 million

The Swiss government is investing CHF47 million in four national research programmes: gender medicine, biodiversity, new construction techniques and crop…

Dsm-Firmenich Adare Biome

dsm-firmenich invests € 275 Million into Adare Biome

Adare Biome, a unit of Adare Pharma Solutions (CDMO), is a historic player in the development and manufacturing of postbiotic…

Fongit Coaches

FONGIT Innovation Initiation Program for Life Sciences – and Deep Tech Projects

In 2016 FONGIT, in Geneva, and EPFL Innovation Park launched the Geneus program – the first innovation initiation program –…

AC Immune

AC Immune Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for its Alzheimer’s Vaccine candidate

Lausanne-based biopharmaceutical company AC Immune SA, announced that it has received Fast Track designation from the U.S. Food and Drug…

Défi Source 2023

Défi Source 2023 rewards 6 innovative projects focusing on people and society

Over 150 innovation and healthcare players attended the presentations of the 12 finalist projects during the finale of the second…

FIT

Dewi, DNAQuraCy, naialabs and MagFlow awarded grants from FIT

The FIT, (Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique) in canton of Vaud awarded 4 promising Swiss Health Valley projects. DNAQuraCy spun out…

Isospec Analytics

Isospec Analytics wins CHF 150’000 and Venture Kick’s 3rd round

The startup uses molecular signatures that can be used like bar codes to identify molecules, and developed a technology to…

HUG Phage

A HUG patient saved by natural viruses called bacteriophages

For the first time, a multidisciplinary team from the University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG) and the University of Geneva (UNIGE)…

EBAmed

EBAMed raises EUR 14.35 Million in Series A Funding

The Swiss Health Valley start-up develops a novel image guidance system for the non-invasive treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia through Proton…

Venture Startup Competition

>>venture>> Startup Competition: Diatheris and ZiZAN!A Biobotanica awarded

Several Swiss Health Valley projects were rewarded during the finale of the >>venture>> Startup Competition on 26 June 2023, at…

Debiopharm

Debiopharm invests $6 Million with Benchstrength in Altis Labs

Altis Labs is a Canadian computational imaging company accelerating clinical trials with artificial intelligence.   “We are thrilled to partner…

Bloom Renewables

Bloom Renewables won the Prix Sud

Le Temps, and its main partner Romande Energie, announced the Sustainable Start-Up 2023 Prize   Bloom Biorenewables, a Fribourg based…

Lunaphore

Lunaphore Technologies to get acquired by Bio-Techne

Lunaphore Technologies SA, a Vaud-based (Switzerland) life sciences company developing technology to enable spatial biology in every laboratory, announced it…

CHUV

The ERAS protocol, developed at the CHUV, receives the “Nobel Prize for Surgery”

Under the guidance of its Director General Nicolas Demartines, the CHUV was the first hospital in Switzerland to adopt the…

W. A. de Vigier Award 2023

Three Health Valley projects received a W. A. de Vigier Award

biped.ai, Gaia Technologies and Limula received a W. A. de Vigier Award, each endowed with CHF 100,000. Over 300 submitted…

University of Bern

University of Bern strengthens research cooperation around healthcare in Africa

Together with African and European partner universities, the University of Bern is developing is establishing two long-term research collaborations. These…

bNovate

bNovate Technologies raises CHF 12 Million

bNovate Technologies, a leader in rapid bacterial detection systems for water, has announced a CHF 12 million Series C funding…

Lymphatica

CHF 400’000 for Lymphatica

The FIT (Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique) gives a Tech Growth loans of CHF 400’000 to the EPFL spin-off, allowing her…

Swiss Medtech Award

Abionic wins the Swiss Medtech Award 2023

The EPFL spin-off, founded in 2010, wins the Swiss Medtech Award 2023 valued at CHF 75,000. Abionic specialises in providing…

Regen Lab

Regen Lab partners with Dassault Systèmes Group

Regen Lab, a Swiss commercial-stage medical technology company specializing in the research, development, registration, manufacturing and commercialization of proprietary tissue…

HUG RNA Vaccine

HUG to test a promising messenger RNA vaccine against melanoma

A messenger RNA vaccine developed by Moderna, which has recently been shown to be effective against certain cases of melanoma,…

Inselspital

Swiss and American researchers reached a potential milestone in cancer therapy

Researchers from the University of Bern, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, and the University of Connecticut have made a significant breakthrough…

Merck Biotech Development Center

Merck inaugurates its Biotech Development Centre in Corsier-sur-Vevey

German laboratory Merck invested CHF 250 million in Corsier-sur-Vevey (VD). The 15,700 m2 building will combine research and production of…

Selexis - KBI

Selexis SA and KBI Biopharma now operate as one organisation

Selexis, an EFPL startup, was founded in 2001 before being acquired by the Japanese group JSR Life Sciences. KBI Biopharma,…

Ibex™ Lonza facilit in Visp Switzerland

Lonza acquires Dutch biotech company Synaffix

The Valais-based pharmaceutical subcontractor will pay an initial €100 million, with subsequent milestone payments of up to a further €60…

Yassin Nahi GGBa

Driving Growth and Innovation: Yassin Nahi’s Insights on the Biotech Cluster in Western Switzerland

The Swiss Biotech Report 2023 recently unveiled an impressive portrait of Switzerland’s thriving biotech sector. With record revenues of CHF…

CSEM and MOMM Diagnostics

CSEM and MOMM Diagnostics partner to develop a rapid test for preeclampsia

Among the various pregnancy complications, one of the most serious and potentially life-threatening conditions is preeclampsia affecting 3 to 8%…

Virus Grippe

How the flu virus hacks our cells

A UNIGE team has discovered how the influenza A virus hijacks the mechanism for importing iron into cells to invade…

Impossible Materials

Impossible Materials wins CHF 150,000

After raising CHF 3.8 Million last month, the Fribourg-based startup won the third and final stage of the Venture Kick…

Artiria Medical

Artiria receives FDA 510(k) Clearance for its deflectable guidewire for surgery

Artiria Medical, a Vaud-based neurovascular MedTech company, announces that its real-time deflectable guidewire has been granted the 510(k) clearance by…

Onward

A paraplegic controls his movements with his mind

Neuroscientists and neurosurgeons from EPFL/CHUV/UNIL and CEA/CHUGA/UGA report in the journal Nature that they have re-established communication between the brain…

De Vigier Award

6 life sciences startups in the Top 10 of the W. A. de Vigier Award

From a record number of over 300 submitted projects, the jury picked their Top 10. On 20 June 2023, up…

FIF May 2023

Fluosphera SA, Kylys Aesthetics SA and Consulto supported by FONGIT

Fongit, the Fondation Genevoise pour l’Innovation Technologique, has awarded two Seed loans of 100,000 CHF to Fluosphera SA and Kylys…

WS Digital Health

Western Switzerland cantons sign an agreement on digital health

Fribourg, Geneva, Jura, Valais and Vaud are aiming to establish a legal basis for the provision and operation of other…

Onward

Onward Announces First-in-Human Use of ARC-IM™ Lead to Restore Movement and Function after Spinal Cord Injury

New lead is purpose-designed to optimize the delivery of ONWARD ARC Therapy™   ONWARD Medical, a medical technology company working…

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