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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 $5 million

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

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 definetely becomes KBI Biopharma

Selexis, an EFPL startup, was founded in 2005 before being acquired by KBI Biopharma Inc, a subsidiary of the Japanese…

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…

Innovators and Investors Connect

Investors et Innovators Connect

On 2 May 2023, BioAlps and Intuitive Surgical co-organised an  Investors et Innovators Connect event. Our association scouted projects in…

SAKK HUG

CHF 1 Million for a clinical study on Lymphoma

Dr Noémie Lang, oncologist at Geneva University Hospital (HUG), wins the prestigious Swiss Group for Clinical Cancer Research (SAKK) Trial…

BIND

BIND: Bioinnovation Day Awards

On 11 May 2023, 31 early stage life sciences projects were presented to the public at the AGORA (Fondation ISREC)…

New Biologix

NewBiologix is betting on the industrialization of gene therapy

With CHF 45 million raised, the start-up NewBiologix, officially launched on 11 May 2023 at the Biopôle in Epalinges, has…

Novostia

Novostia raises € 2.5 Million

Novostia SA is a clinical stage company developing a breakthrough artificial heart valve.   Founded in April 2017, in Neuchâtel,…

Swiss Health Valley Photo

BioAlps 20th General Assembly

Collaboration is key to foster innovation in the Swiss Health Valley   Founded in 2003, BioAlps empowers the Swiss Health…

Gnubiotics

Nobel Laureate Prof. James Rothman and Drug Discovery Expert Dr. John Baldoni join Gnubiotics as Senior Advisors

The Swiss company has been able to recreate the unique diversity of glycan structures found in breast milk, nature’s perfect…

HCK

HealthCare Konnect and Ligence Partners to Expand Access to AI-based Echocardiography Solution

The two companies join forces to bring AI-based echocardiography solution, Ligence Heart, in Switzerland and North Africa (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia…

Domo Health + SAK

Domo Health partners with SAK to bring advanced digital health solutions at home

SAK (St. Gallisch-Appenzellische Kraftwerke AG) has acquired a participation in Domo Health as part of a round of capital raising….

Innosuisse Swiss Accelerator

Innosuisse grants CHF 2.5 M to 7 Swiss Health Valley Life Sciences Startups

Within the framework of the Swiss Accelerator, Innosuisse supports 53 innovation projects by SMEs and startups and grants each of…

Limula

Limula SA receives CHF 2.5 million from Innosuisse Swiss Accelerator

Limula SA receives CHF 2.5 million in non-dilutive funding to accelerate the industrialisation of a closed, automated, and modular solution…

machineMD

machineMD wins Innovation World Cup 2023

machineMD, a Bern-based medtech company, was awarded the top prize at the prestigious Innovation World Cup® 2023, hosted during the…

Siegfried

Siegfried expands and invests CHF 25 million in Evionnaz (VS)

The biomanufacturing company invests of up to CHF 25 million in Valais (Switzerland) for a new global R&D Center for…

SBA report

Biotech companies thrive in Switzerland

Swiss Biotech Report 2023 shows sector weathers global disruption well and continues to play a leading role driving global healthcare…

Impossible Materials

Impossible Materials raises CHF 3,4 Million

Suspected of causing cancer, titanium dioxide, a white colouring agent, has been banned from food in Switzerland and Europe since…

Prof. George Coukos

George Coukos honored by the American Association for Cancer (AACR)

George Coukos, full professor at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of UNIL, director of the Department of Oncology UNIL-CHUV…

Distalmotion

Distalmotion raises $ 150M

The fundraise, led by Revival Healthcare Capital, will be used to get a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for…

Senior Man and Music

Music practice keeps the brain from ageing

A study led by the UNIGE, HES-SO Geneva, and EPFL revealed that music practice and active listening could prevent working…

Nagi Bioscience's team

SydLab One by Nagi Bioscience hits the market

Nagi Bioscience releases an end-to-end automated device to screen drugs, chemicals and others substances on micro-organisms.   Swiss EPFL spin-off…

Euresearch

Horizon Europe for Swiss Researchers

Swiss entities can participate in most Horizon Europe calls. Funding is provided by the Swiss government as long as Switzerland…

Biopôle - LICR

Ludwig Cancer Research and Canton of Vaud Partner to Build a Research Centre

The new centre will be dedicated to synthetic immunotherapy and immune engineering on the Biopôle site in Epalinges.   The…

Wyss Center CEO

Erwin Böttinger is the new Wyss Center Geneva CEO

The Executive Board of the Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, a non-profit research center, is pleased to announce the…

Ibex™ Lonza facilit in Visp Switzerland

Lonza completed its latest drug manufacturing line in Visp

The new line will support customers with a range of drug product manufacturing needs for both clinical and commercial supply….

De Vigier Awards

W.A. de Vigier Awards 2023: 7 Western Switzerland Life Sciences Startups Selected

15 startups were selected among 300 projects. 5 of them are set to win CHF 100,000. The Award Ceremony is…

Obesity Center CHUV

An Obesity Center opens at the CHUV

The creation of an Obesity Center at the CHUV enables the teams of Dr. Lucie Favre, head of the Obesity…

Alithea Genomics

Alithea Genomics receives CHF 500,000 from FIT

The EPFL spin-off is active in high-throughput RNA sequencing, used to examine gene expression and discover new biomarkers and drugs….

Lunaphore

Lunaphore raises CHF 40 million in Series D1 funding

The Swiss startup plans to use the funding to strengthen its growing portfolio offering in spatial biology.     Lunaphore…

OramaVR

A VR training programme for medical students supported by Innosuisse

Viva VOsCE is a revolutionary project aiming at transforming medical education through harnessing the power of Virtual Reality (VR) technology….

FIF 2023

Three new projects financed in Geneva by the FIF

Plair, Endotelix and Dr Beat Walpoth received funding from the Fongit Innovation Fund (FIF).   Plair SA: Growth loan of…

Senbiosys

Senbiosys raises more than CHF 600,000 on kickstarter

Senbiosys developed a smart ring and an application to give users inputs about their health and wellness. The EPFL spin-off…

Tech4Eva 2023

Tech4Eva selected 16 projects for its 2023 programme

16 projects have been selected for the 2023 programme   Tech4Eva is an EPFL Innovation Park and Groupe Mutuel initiative…

Debiopharm Innovation Fund

Debiopharm and Merck invest in artificial intelligence

Debiopharm Innovation Fund, the strategic investment arm of Swiss biopharmaceutical company Debiopharm, and M Ventures, the strategic, corporate venture capital…

Medyria

EFI-Lake Geneva Ventures and Yellowstone Holding AG invest CHF 3,5 million in Medyria

Medyria’s PyCath aims to be the only device on the market with pressure and blood flow velocity sensing for the…

Sophia Genetics / Agilent

SOPHiA GENETICS and Agilent Partner

SOPHiA GENETICS, a Lausanne-based cloud-native software company in the healthcare space and the leader in data-driven medicine, is partnering with…

GeNeuro

GeNeuro raises €25 million for its treatment against long COVID

GeNeuro develops timelimab, an antibody that showed promising results in treating inflammatory symptoms for long COVID patients   GeNeuro, a…

DayOne Tech Jura

Three Jura start-ups awarded with the DayOne Tech accelerator prize 

The Jura branch of the Swiss Innovation Park Basel Area is home to 28 companies and institutions, including ten in…

Debiopharm

Debiopharm expands its oncology pipeline

The Lausanne-based biotech company has obtained global rights from a Novo Nordisk molecule and plans to take the compound forward…

Raphaël Conz

Raphaël Conz is the New Head of Department for Economic Promotion and Innovation in the canton of Vaud

Raphaël Conz is also BioAlps’ vice-president. For many years, he has worked to promote the attractiveness and the reputation of…

Medistri

Medistri invests CHF 8 million in Domdidier

The largest independent sterilisation company in Europe invests to expand its plant in Domdidier, in the canton of Fribourg.  …

Oculis

Oculis Announces US public listing on Nasdaq

A Swiss Health Valley success story! Oculis goes public.   Oculis Holding AG (“Oculis”), based at EPFL Innovation Park in…

Comphya

Comphya receives approval for first pilot clinical trial in Australia

A swissmade neuromodulator to treat erectile dysfunction starts clinical trials in Australia   Comphya SA, developer of the first neuromodulator…

Fluosphera

FluoSphera Secures a Pre-Seed Investment of $ 1M 

The US accelerator IndieBio New York which is part of SOSV, Swiss-based Mountain Labs, and EFI Lake Geneva Ventures participated…

Lunaphore

Lunaphore and CRO Sirona Dx collaborate to expand COMET™ offerings to US-based biotech and biopharma customers

Sirona Dx will become the first US-based Contract Research Organization (CRO) to offer Lunaphore’s flagship COMET™ spatial biology platform as a service….

Fondation Leenaards

Leenaards Foundation 2023 Science Prizes

Leenaards Foundation announces three winners of the 2023 Science Prizes. CHF 1.5 million are awarded to support biomedical research in…

Obseva

ObsEva Announces Strategic Reorganization to Consolidate Operations in Switzerland

In financial trouble, the Geneva-based femtech company had to lay off its employees and reorganize its management   Obseva, in…

Terapet

Terapet raises CHF 2,3 million

The Swiss MedTech company is developing next generation imaging technology, and closed a Pre-Series A investment round. This funding supports…

MimiX - Precomb

mimiX Biotherapeutics and PreComb join forces to fight cancer

 The two companies are partnering to accelerate the process of personalized cancer drug profiling leveraging the potential of both company’s…

Mindmaze

Izar by Mindmaze, a new smart device to improve hand rehabilitation

MindMaze, a global pioneer in the development of AI-driven digital neurotherapeutics, is proud to announce the US and EU launch…

Future of Health

7 digital health start-ups selected by the Future of Health Grant

CSS and EPFL announce the 2nd cohort of the Future of Health Program   The Future of Health Grant (FoHG)…

SEED BIOSCIENCE

SEED Biosciences teams up with Molecular Device to market its DispenCell

Biopôle-based SEED Biosciences teams up with Molecular Devices, LLC. The American leading provider of high-performance life science solutions is now…

MintWorld

Lonza wants to encourage careers In Life Sciences and opens MINTWorld

Faced with a shortage of qualified personnel in the field of mathematics, computer science, natural sciences and technology (MINT) in…

Gene Predictis

Gene Predictis is bought by NIMGenetics

The EPFL-based start-up accepted the offer of the Spanish company. The amount of the transaction has not been disclosed.  …

Sofia Genetics

SOPHiA GENETICS Expands Partnership with AstraZeneca

The Swiss start-up, specialised in AI assisted medicine, and the Swedish-British pharmaceutical company want to create multimodal approaches for cancer drug…

13 Biotech to watch

13 biotech companies to watch according to BioAlps and Labiotech.eu

BioAlps recently collaborated with Labiotech.eu to detect the 13 biotech and healthtech companies in the Swiss Health Valley to watch…

Hopital La Tour

La Tour invests CHF 750 million in a health campus in Meyrin

Hôpital de La Tour in Geneva sells its premises to finance an ambitious innovation-oriented health campus   The owners of…

AC Immune MJFOX

CHF 500 000 for AC Immune

Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF) and Target ALS Foundation (Target ALS) provide more than USD 500,000 in…

Aspivix

Aspivix receives U.S. FDA Clearance for Carevix™, Their Novel Cervical Stabilizer

Carevix™, a novel atraumatic cervical stabilizer created by the Swiss startup ASPIVIX SA, received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food…

Biopôle Startup Fund winners 2022

Volumina Medical, Parithera and PeriVision win the Biopôle Startup Fund 2022

The initiative, which includes up to CHF 90,000 of support per year for up to three consecutive years, is designed…

CSEM + LIMULA

Limula and CSEM partner to automate the production of CAR T cells

A Health Valley partnership to revolutionize cancer therapies and to bring a personalised treatment for cancer patients   CSEM supports…

Calciscon

€2M Eurostars funding for a project led by Calciscon

CALCISCON, AMSTERDAM UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTERS and ADMESY have signed a collaborative agreement for the development of a laboratory benchtop analyzer…

Xsensio

Xsensio announces an agreement with Mayo Clinic

Xsensio Announces Know-How and Stock Purchase Agreement with Mayo Clinic   Xsensio, a Vaud-Based company that is developing the Lab-on-Skin©…

CaverSTIM

Comphya raises CHF 850 000 in a convertible loan

Comphya SA, developer of the first neuromodulator to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), announced the fundraising of CHF 850k in a…

Pills ©maksim goncharenok

Research is less profitable for the pharmaceutical industry

According to a Deloitte study, investing in research is less and less interesting. The audit and consulting firm used figures…

Ibex™ Lonza facilit in Visp Switzerland

Lonza invested CHF 1 billion in Visp in 2022

The biopharmaceutical company employs 5,000 people in Valais, and also announced a 15% sales growth in 2022, representing a total…

Alithea Chuv Pamgene

CHUV, Alithea Genomics and PanGene partner to develop a pan-cancer blood test

The three partners secured a €1 million ($1.1 million) in Eurostars grant funding to develop a first of a king…

Magali Bischof Labiotech

BioAlps and the Swiss Health Valley

Listen to Magali Bischof, BioAlps Secretary General, on Beyond Biotech podcast speaking about the Swiss Health Valley and the role…

Chuv, Ludwig Institute, EPFL

CHUV, EPFL, SIB and Roche found molecules able to suppress resistance to immunotherapy

A breakthrough in the fight against cancer: researchers from EPFL, the Ludwig Institute of the CHUV, the SIB, and Roche…

HUG Center Virtual Medicine

The HUG open a Centre for Virtual Medicine

The new Centre for Virtual Medicine at the HUG is a pioneer in the use of virtual reality for clinical…

Bionomous

BIONOMOUS closes a USD 2.7 million Series A

The Swiss-based startup builds devices to automate processes in Life Science research and prepares a product rollout and expansion.  …

machineMD

Virtual reality glasses used as a diagnostic tool for brain disorders

MachineMD, a spin-off of Inselspital Bern, and CSEM, are collaborating to diagnose brain diseases by analyzing eye movements with a…

Neurosoft Bioelectronics

Neurosoft Bioelectronics receives ISO Certification for its Quality Management System

Neurosoft Bioelectronics SA, a startup developing implantable brain-computer interfaces, announces that it has received ISO 13485:2016 Certification by TÜV SÜD…

Bachem

A CHF 1 billion contract for Bachem Group

The contract covers the delivery of a large volume of peptides over a five-year period from 2025-2029, and follows the…

Ypsomed Innovation Award 2022 – The Winners

machineMD (1st place), Pace Locator (2nd place) and Compact Motion (3rd place). The Innovation Award, worth a total of CHF…

MPC Therapeutics

A CHF 1.5M seed-funding round for MPC Therapeutics to improve CAR-T cancer therapies

MPC Therapeutics (MPC Tx), is a Swiss biotechnology company based in Geneva, focusing on metabolism and cellular rejuvenation.   The…

ten23 health

Swissfillon becomes ten23 health

ten23 health®, a global contract development and manufacturing organization (CDMO) announces the change in branding of its in Visp, Switzerland…

Stalicla

STALICLA signs exclusive in-licensing agreement with Novartis for late-stage clinical neuropsychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorder treatment

The transaction with Novartis reinforces STALICLA’s position as the leading developer of precision medicines for neurodevelopmental disorders and heralds the…

mimiX biotherapeutics Ltd

mimiX biotherapeutics launches a funding round to accelerate clinical translation of FastSkin®

mimiX biotherapeutics launches a funding round to accelerate clinical translation of FastSkin® MIMIX BIOTHERAPEUTICS LTD, a Swiss medical technology company…

Resistell

Resistell AG closes its series B first tranche of CHF 8.5 Million

Resistell provides information on which antibiotic should be used to treat the patient, and the concentration at which it should…

iOnctura

iOnctura awarded EUR 17.5 million funding from the EIC Accelerator

Funding will support iOnctura’s clinical program for IOA-289, a first-in-class autotaxin inhibitor for the treatment of pancreatic cancer   iOnctura…

Biped

An intelligent harness to facilitate the mobility of blind people

The startup Biped created a harness equipped with 3D cameras that beeps when there is a risk of hitting an…

AMF Medical SA

AMF Medical SA bought for CHF 200 million by Tandem Diabetes Care

Tandem Diabetes Care, a global US-Based insulin delivery and diabetes technology company, announced an agreement to acquire AMF Medical SA,…

Pharma Suisse

Swiss research: the pharmaceutical industry is the leading investor in 2021

In 2021, private companies spent CHF 16.8 billion in Switzerland on in-house research and development (R&D) activities. This represents an…

The Scientist

Nanolive selected in the top 10 Innovations by The Scientist

The Scientist magazine announced its top 10 new products selected by a panel of independent judges. The Lausanne-based start-up Nanolive…

MRM Debiopharm Challenge

MRM wins the Debiopharm – La Solution – Inartis Challenge

The 7th Debiopharm-La-Solution.ch-Inartis Challenge for the Quality of Life of Patient has rewarded with a prize of CHF 25’000 the…

4à6 BioAlps

VR training for new Lonza employees

How to attract and retain talented workers in the Biotech Industry? And how to train the new recruits efficiently? Lonza…

Innosuisse 2023

Innosuisse, what changes in 2023?

As of January 2023, Innosuisse is evolving. Grants will be distributed for international projects, and the financing of start-ups will…

Alliance TT

Alliance, your partner for your Innosuisse application

You have an innovative project and are thinking of submitting an Innosuisse application? With its team of specialized advisors, Alliance…

Domo Health - Pépites

Domo Health: a digital platform for home health

Lack of resources and staff, aging population, an increase in chronic diseases: the challenges of the medical world are numerous…

Long Covid Syndrome

GeNeuro starts a clinical trials for its long COVID treatment

200 patients are recruited and will be followed in 5 Swiss hospitals participating in the study. The first results are…

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler BioAlps President

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler elected at the Royal Academy of Medicine of Belgium

A new mission for BioAlps’ President   Professor at the Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics of the Faculty of…

Symbios

Symbios opens a new factory in Yverdon

The 12 000 m2 facility will be ready next spring in the Y-Parc in Yverdon-les-Bains. Leader in the production of custom-made…

Volumina Medical

Volumina Medical Gets a CHF 500 000 Loan from FIT

Volumina Medical is an EPFL spin-off based in Biopôle Lausanne. The company develops a biogel that supports the repair of…

Switzerland sets to accept medical devices with FDA approval

The Federal Council is to adapt national laws so that, in addition to medical devices with an EU certificate /…

ONWARD

EUR 3.7 million for ONWARD and its partners from the European Innovation Council (EIC)

The European Innovation Council Grant has been awarded to ONWARD and its research partners, including EPFL, IICT-BAS, CEA-Leti-Clinatec, and CEAList….

Limula

Limula wins the start-up Swiss Technology Award

During the Swiss Innovation Forum on 23 November 2022 in Basel, Limula won the Inventor Award.   Two other companies…

Cern et CHUV

CERN, CHUV and THERYQ develop a revolutionary FLASH radiotherapy device to fight cancer

This FLASH radiotherapy device will use very high-energy electrons (VHEE) to treat cancers that are resistant to conventional treatments, with…

BioAlps Awards

Prof. Jocelyne Bloch and Prof. Grégoire Courtine receive the BioAlps Academia Award, and Incyte the BioAlps Industry Award.

The ceremony closed the BioAlps Networking Day on 24 November 2022 in Neuchâtel, in front of 250 key players of…

Dentsply Sirona

Dentsply Sirona wins the Vaud International Business Award

The dental products world leader employs 700 people in the canton.       Each fall, the Vaud International Business…

Obseva

ObsEva Announces Sale of Ebopiprant License Agreement to XOMA for up to $113 Million

The Swiss company expects the sale proceeds to resolve its current over-indebtedness position ObsEva SA, a biopharmaceutical company based in…

Opna bio

Opna Bio Raises $38M in Series A Financing

Opna Bio, an Epalinges, Switzerland and San Francisco, CA-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, raised $38M in Series A funding. The round…

nicollier

Claude Nicollier steps down from his position as CSEM

The former astronaut has spent 16 years as Chairperson of the Board of Directors   Effective June 2023, Claude Nicollier…

Novigenix

Novigenix announces first closing of its $20M Series B

The company validated its approach in Colorectal Cancer (CRC) screening, and provides new molecular insights and predictive algorithms for patient…

Neuria

Neuria receives the Start-Up Innovation Prize of the Canton of Fribourg

Neuria gets CHF 30 000 to develop its digital therapy hidden in video games to help fight nutrition disorders  …

PeriVision

A CHF 1.6 million Innosuisse Grant for PeriVision

PeriVision was awarded an Innosuisse research grant together with the University Hospital Bern and ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research…

MICROCITY Neuchâtel, Land of Diagnostic

A Human lean Diagnostic programme in the canton of precision watchmaking   The historical heritage of high precision and core…

Domo Health Roche

Domo Health and Roche develop a digital health solution to detect the first signs of respiratory infections

Domo Health, a leader in digital health, announced the launch of its clinical study in collaboration with Roche Pharma Suisse…

Debiopharm Yona Link

Debiopharm leads $6M round for YonaLink to Scale Global Growth

The swiss company invests into an Israelian SaaS Platform able to collect data and to reduce clinical trial timelines and…

Neurorestore

Bone marrow neurons can be rewired to enable paraplegics to walk

Jocelyne Bloch and Grégoire Courtine, two Swiss researchers, have identified a group of nerve cells unrelated to the locomotor system…

Dr. Sacha Pierre Sidjanski

Interview Sacha Sidjanski

Dr. Sacha Pierre Sidjanski is in charge of External Relations at the Faculty of Life Sciences at EPFL. He explains…

BioAlps Incyte

🔺4à6 BioAlps at Incyte🔺

  On 22 September 2022, Jonathan Dickinson, executive vice-president at Incyte, received the Swiss Health Valley Community in Morges.  …

Novochizol Alpha Chitin

Novochizol SA and Alpha Chitin Partner to Produce a Chitosan-Based Polysaccharide

Alpha Chitin will manufacture both Novochizol™ raw materials and Novochizol™-based intermediate products.   Alpha Chitin, a French biobased chemistry company…

Sofia Genetics Microsft

SOPHiA GENETICS Partners with Microsoft to Accelerate Multimodal Health Data Analysis

The agreement is to expand and reinforce data-driven medicine through the SOPHiA DDM™ health data analysis platform available with Microsoft Azure…

CSEM Dixi Polytool

Dixi Polytool wins CSEM’s Digital Journey Contest

The company will receive CHF 100,000 in technical support from CSEM to develop a smart factory and a 100% autonomous…

Prof Kalia

Interview Prof. Yogeshvar Kalia

Prof. Yogeshvar Kalia is Professor at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Geneva (UNIGE) speaks about the…

Microbiome

How does the microbiota work?

Researchers at the University of Bern and University Hospital Bern have been able to comprehensively study the bacteria of the…

HUG Endotelix

A new test to avoid miscarriages and strokes

The HUG and the Unige have found a way to better detect the antibodies that cause thrombosis, which leads to…

MedAlliance

Cordis spends 1.14 billion francs to buy MedAlliance

Nyon-based MedAlliance, a start-up active in the field of vascular medical technology, has been acquired by the American multinational Cordis…

NeSensing

Netsensing Technology finalists of the 14th Healthcare Innovation World Cup at Medica 2022

Incubated at Microcity Neuchâtel, Netsensing Technology is excited to announce that it has been selected as one of the Top12…

Denis Cavin

Interview Denis Cavin

Why is Western Switzerland is a perfect place for lifesciences companies? Listen to Denis Cavin, Economic Development Officer at State of Geneva…

Oculis

Oculis to go public

The Lausanne-based company Oculis SA, and European Biotech Acquisition Corp, announced a business combination agreement to create a Nasdaq-listed biopharmaceutical…

Sun Bioscience

SUN Bioscience receives an EPFL Alumni Awards

The two co-founders of SUN bioscience received an EPFL Alumni Award, a price that distinguishes researchers over the course of…

La Source research programme

Improving the working conditions of health care workers

Collecte d’informations pour un projet de recherche HEIG-VD / Institut et Haute Ecole de Santé La Source – Conciliation vie privée vie professionnelle – TOUTES LES SOLUTIONS DE TOUS LES SECTEURS D’ACTIVITE SONT LES BIENVENUES

Firmenich

Firmenich inaugurates its new campus in Geneva

The 225,000 m2 site, located in the towns of Satigny and La Plaine, has a largely automated production capacity of…

Orama VR

ORamaVR raises 2.4M EUR in a post-seed funding round

The leader in medical virtual reality (VR) training tools, based in Geneva, provides immersive virtual reality solutions that allow the…

HealthCare Konnect

BoneView®, an AI solution to improve fractures diagnostic on X-rays images

Gleamer and HealthCare Konnect (HCK) partner to expand access to AI-Based double check-in fractures, effusions, dislocations and bone lesions on…

Ron Appel Christophe Dessimoz

Ron Appel, SIB’s president, retires

Bioinformatics pioneer gives way to the next generation   Ron Appel pioneered the field of bioinformatics in Switzerland and supported…

ArcoScreen and DAAV

ArcoScreen and DAAV are FIT

ArcoScreen and DAAV both receive a Tech Seed loan of CHF 100’000 from the Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT). ArcoScreen…

Endometriosis

Progress in the diagnosis of endometriosis

Researchers from the University of Bern and Inselspital and University Hospital Bern, in collaboration with Australian scientists, are developing a…

Flowbone team

Flowbone SA concludes a CHF 2.1 million Seed round

The EPFL spin-off, active in the field of bone regeneration, prepares its US market entry.   “With aging population, fractures…

Unige Hepatite B

A UNIGE team reveals how Hepatitis B could be cured

The swiss🇨🇭 researchers have deciphered the precise functioning of a protective mechanism that could lead to a potential post-infection treatment…

Top 18 European Biotech startups

Four Swiss🇨🇭 start-ups in the Top 18 European TechBio companies

ONWARD, Haya Therapeutics, Retinai and Engimmune Therapeutics are in the top 18 Biotech companies in Europe according to investors. Stuck…

Volumina Medical

Volumina Medical closes its Series A funding to develop Adipearl

Clinique La Prairie and Skyviews Life Science Ltd are among the new investors   Volumina Medical, a spin-off from the…

Biopôle SA

Three new buildings on the Biopôle site in Lausanne

Biopôle SA announces a new partnership with Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate SICAV for the construction of three new buildings…

Fongit Fund

iOnctura, EBAMed and Terapet awarded by the Fongit

Fongit, the Fondation Genevoise pour l’Innovation Technologique, has just announced the latest beneficiaries of the Fongit Innovation Fund (FIF). iOnctura…

Future of Health Grant

Future of Health: 10 digital healthcare start-ups awarded

EPFL Innovation Park and CSS present the 2022 cohort   The Future of Health Grant programme to support innovation in…

Nanolive

Nanolive SA closes a series C round at $22.2 million

After the successful closing of a US $22.2 million Series C equity financing, Nanolive announces the appointment of two extraordinary…

Hedera Dx

Hedera Dx raises €14 million in seed funding

The Swiss companies wants to accelerate the adoption of liquid biopsies for cancer testing   Swiss techbio company Hedera Dx,…

Incepto

Incepto raised €27 million

The platform for artificial intelligence solutions applied to medical imaging, announces a €27 million round of financing. The goal: to…

Onward Arm Injury

Onward Confirms Amazing Results to restore Arm and Hand Function in People With Spinal Cord Injury

The Up-LIFT study evaluating ARC-EX Therapy demonstrated the effectiveness of the device to improve extremity strength and function in people…

A year of Swiss biological and biomedical data science: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics

Discover some of the key highlights of the national organization for biological and biomedical data science in the SIB Profile 2022, our annual activity report. Together, our infrastructure solutions, expertise and interdisciplinary collaborations foster better science and healthcare, and give Switzerland a strong voice in global issues around life science data.

Selexis - Next Immune

Selexis and NexImmune Sign an Agreement to Advance Multiple Immunotherapies Targeting Rare Cancers

This Agreement supports the development of molecules targeting acute myeloid leukemia, multiple myeloma, human papillomavirus (HPV) associated tumors, and additional…

Debiopharm Whitelab Genomics

Debiopharm Innovation Funds invests to accelerate the development of genomics medicines via technology powered AI

The strategic investment arm of Swiss biopharmaceutical company Debiopharm wants to reduce biotherapies’ development time and cost using AI (Artificial…

Top 100 startups

Top 100 Swiss Startups 2022: the Life Sciences Winners

17 Western Switzerland Life Sciences startups in biotech, medtech and foodtech were selected   The TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award 2022…

Novartis 100 million investment

Novartis invests CHF 100 million in Basel

A new state-of-the-art biologics centre   Novartis announced plans to invest around CHF 100 million in the development of next-generation…

BCC Fribourg

New Gene Therapy Laboratory at the Biofactory Competence Center (BCC) in Fribourg

A jewel for biopharmaceutical education and research   The Biofactory Competence Center (BCC) in Freiburg inaugurated its new gene therapy…

Forum des 100

Forum des 100 – Le Temps

Two BioAlps experts nominated   Two Life Sciences experts, Dominique Truchot-Cardot and Alexandre Pauchard, are among the 100 personalities of…

machineMD

machineMD raises CHF 3.2 Million

T‍he MedTech startup is developing a medical device for the early diagnosis of neurological disorders including brain tumors via neuro-ophthalmic…

Chuv Trisomie 21

CHUV, HUG and Inserm help Down syndrome patients to get better

The injection of the hormone GnRH improved the cognitive functions of several Down syndrome patients   An Inserm team within…

AC Immune MJFOX

Parkinson’s Disease: AC Immune Receives a Grant from The Michael J. Fox Foundation

A new USD 0.5 million grant brings up to USD 3.7 million the total amount The Michael J. Fox Foundation…

Sensawear

A wearable tissue health monitor

Sensawear wins a CHF 150,000 Venture Kick grant to develop its wearable tissue health monitor   Sensawear has developed the…

SightIn Health

SightIn Health wins a CHF 150,000 Venture Kick grant

The Swiss start-up wants to develop an AI-SaaS to democratize the use and interpretation of ultrasound   SightIn Health’s Machine…

Day One Jura

DayOne Tech Accelerator presents its first cohort

The DayOne Tech Accelerator in the Canton of Jura has just announced its winners. Three Medtech startups are starting a…

AC Bioscience

AC BioScience closes a 4th seed-round of CHF 2.5 million

AC BioScience, a Biopôle-based clinical-stage biotech company pioneering the development of novel therapies in immuno-oncology and tumour vascular normalization, announces…

Alcon

Alcon buys Aerial Pharmaceutics for $770 million

Ophthalmic devices and Geneva-based Alcon has reached an agreement to acquire North Carolina-based Aerie Pharmaceuticals for $770 million (743.1 million…

Sandoz and Novartis

Novartis to list its subsidiary Sandoz on the stock exchange

Under consideration since 2021, the details of the demerger of Sandoz, the generic drug arm of Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis,…

Twiice

Twiice’s exoskeleton allows paralysed people to walk again

Vaud-based and EPFL spin-off startup TWIICE receives a CHF 100 000 seed loan from FIT   Every year, around 250,000…

Abionic

Abionic’s test diagnoses sepsis 3 days before the standards methods

Abionic’s test identifies in 5 minutes the earliest signs of sepsis 3 days before the standard of care. The technology…

Obseva

ObsEva plans job cuts

The ObsEva laboratory is to engage in a vast restructuring process in the face of difficulties encountered with the FDA…

Dexter Distalmotion

Dexter®, the Swiss surgery robot, makes its way to Germany

The Dexter® on-demand robotic surgery system created by the swiss company Distalmotion is now used by the Department for Women’s…

Debiopharm Unige

Debiopharm signs an new IDEAL agreement with the University of Geneva

Debiopharms and UNIGE want to fight together against cancer and drug-resistant bacterial infections JULY 25, 2022   Debiopharm, a Swiss…

Nano Decoder

Using proteins as barcodes to fight against counterfeiting

Nanodecoder, an EPFL spin-off, receives CHF 100 000 from FIT   The Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique selection committee announced they…

Nestlé - Enterome

Nestlé Health Science invests EUR 40 million in Enterome

Nestlé Health Science has signed a collaboration agreement with French company Enterome to target food allergies and chronic intestinal diseases…

Nestlé & Perseo Pharma

Nestlé Health Science and Perseo Pharma partners to fight digestive diseases

Strategic collaboration to create therapies against digestive diseases   Perseo pharma, a preclinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on breaking new…

ADC Therapeutics

ADC Therapeutics signs multi-million dollar licensing agreement with Sobi

The swiss and the Swedish companies partner for the development and commercialization of ZYNLONTA®, a drug for hematologic and solid…

Gnubiotics

Gnubiotics gets a CHF 1.4 million Innosuisse Grant

The biotech company evaluates the effects of glycopeptides on solid tumors   Gnubiotics Sciences, a biotech company pioneering the discovery…

b-ray Z

CHF 4 million for b-rayZ AG, a startup fighting breast cancer

The Tech4Eva alumni and University Hospital Zurich (USZ) uses AI for faster and better breast cancer diagnostics     b-RayZ AG…

Selexis - kbi

KBI Biopharma SA and Selexis SA inaugurated a new facility in Geneva

KBI Biopharma SA (KBI) and Selexis SA, both JSR Life Sciences companies, have inaugurated an expanded, fully-integrated mammalian contract development…

The State of Vaud commits on giving CHF 2 million / year to the Fondation pour l'Innovation Technologique (FIT)

The canton of Vaud keeps on backing the FIT

The State of Vaud commits on giving CHF 2 million / year to the Fondation pour l’Innovation Technologique (FIT)  …

Lonza, stein

Lonza opens a new production facility in Stein (CH)

Lonza plans to construct a large-scale commercial drug product fill and finish facility in Stein (CH). CHF 500 million will…

Vaud Investments Life Sciences

Vaud invests CHF 178 Million in Life Sciences

To strengthen the development of the Canton and in particular the expertise of the CHUV and the University of Lausanne…

CSEM and Clexbio Team

Supervene: growing humain vein tissues

ClexBio, a Norway-based startup, is teaming up with CSEM to develop the world’s first machine to grow tissue-engineered human veins…

Magali Bischof, Secretary General of BioAlps (L) with George Kouvas Chief Technology Officer at the Wyss Center (R)

Wyss Center joins life sciences cluster BioAlps 

The Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating discoveries in neuroscience to improve patient lives,…

Madiha Derouazi (right) and Elodie Belnoue (left)

Geneva researcher wins European Inventor’s Award

Geneva-based researcher Madiha Derouazi is co-winner of the European Inventor Award. With the French immunologist Elodie Belnoue, she is rewarded…

ten23health

ten23health is building a new facility in Visp

The company plans to establish a new 5,000 m2 manufacturing facility in Visp.    In October 2021, ten23 health acquired a…

Ecotope 1

Ecotope, the new EPFL Innovation Park’s project

EPFL Innovation Park is turning 30 this year and wants to expand. A new site, called Ecotope,  will bring together…

ORama VR

A CHF 12 Million Innosuisse Grant for a VR Surgical Training Method

The Swiss Federal Agency for Innovation Promotion (Innosuisse) is supporting the “PROFICIENCY” project, in which the Geneva-based startup ORamaVR S.A….

Limula wins a prestigious EIC grant of €4.7 million

By combining its novel bioreactor with state-of-the-art sensors and predictive data intelligence, Limula will add significant value to its cell & gene therapy manufacturing solution, paving the way for in-process control for the production of highly personalised cancer treatments.

AlveoliX Swiss Medtech Award

AlveoliX wins the Swiss Medtech Award 2022

Bernese start-up AlveoliX was awarded the Swiss Medtech Award, and prize money totaling CHF 75,000.   AlveoliX, founded in 2019,…

Solange Peters Chuv

CHUV strengthens its strategy to fight cancer

The University Hospital of Vaud (CHUV) in Lausanne is expanding its strategy to better fight all forms of cancer. The…

BioAlps OM Pharma 4à6

BioAlps at OM Pharma

On 9 June 2022, during a BioAlps’ 4à6 event, the Heath Valley Community had the opportunity to visit OM Pharma…

Cityva 3D

Cytiva opens a new production site in Grens (VD)

Cytiva opens its new 7,400 m2 production facility in Grens, Switzerland, on 31 May 2022.   The site will manufacture…

Top Swiss Startups

Votes are open for the TOP 100 Swiss Startups! 

What is your favorite swiss startup?   Every year the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award showcases the 100 most innovative…

Prof. Antoine Geissbuhler BioAlps President

Pr. Antoine Geissbuhler is the new BioAlps’ President

A Digital Health specialist to promote the Swiss Health Valley and the number one and most diversified Life Sciences Cluster…

Alithea Genomics

Alithea Genomics closes a CHF 1 million seed round

Alithea Genomics, a Lausanne-based fast-growing, emerging leader in the field of RNA sequencing and transcriptomics analysis, announced the closing of…

Dr. Andrea Pfeifer Ac Immune SA

Dr. Andrea Pfeifer received the Aenne Burda Award

The CEO and Director of AC Immune SA was recognized for her work to find treatments for Alzheimer’s disease  …

Kodiak Sciences and Lonza open a new facility in Visp

Kodiak Sciences and Lonza open a new facility in Visp

Kodiak Sciences Inc. (Nasdaq: KOD), a biopharmaceutical company committed to researching, developing and commercializing transformative therapeutics to treat retinal diseases,…

Spark centre for movement science and technologies

SpArk, the centre for movement science and technologies, is born!

This new centre, dedicated to sport and performance, is the result of collaboration between the City of Sion and The…

Hansjorg Wyss

Hansjörg Wyss, the life sciences philanthropist

On 17 May 2022, Hansjörg Wyss received the Gallatin Award from the Swiss American Chamber of Commerce for his great…

Onward 1

ONWARD’s Neurostimulator Restores Mobility for Patients with Spinal Cord Injury

This is the first time the ARCIM is used on a human patient. This implantable pulse generator (IPG) stimulates the…

HemostOD

HemostOD creates ex vivo blood platelets

HemostOD has developed a solution for ex vivo on-demand production of blood platelets. The company just received a CHF 100…

Biotech

Swiss biotech companies attracted investments of $3.33 billion in 2021

Last year was ‘the second best year in terms of fundraising’, according to the Swiss Biotech Association. The sector benefited…

Claude Clément

Podcast: Claude Clément

BioAlps President, Claude Clément, discusses career choices and how to lead innovation in the healthcare industry in the podcast What To Do…

Debiotech

A revolutionary home dialysis device made in Switzerland

The VersiTMPD Cycler System conceived and developed by Debiotech and licensed to Fresenius Medical Care receives FDA clearance

Merck Serono Christophe Martin

Merck Serono improves quality control with IA

Artificial Intelligence helps to assess the severity of a manufacturing incident in a medicine production unit   In any factory,…

Limula Ceidos Stemmatters

EUR 1 million Eurostars grant for Limula and Ceidos

The two swiss biotech startups signed an agreement with Stemmatters in Portugal. They received a Eurostars grant of EUR 1.14…

startup invest

Switzerland is high on the financing of medical startups

Switzerland ranks fourth in Europe in terms of the number of deals behind Britain, Germany and France.   Last year,…

Plair SA raised CHF 2,7 million

A grant to fund the Rapid-C Real-Time Microbial Detector    Plair SA, based in Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, has been awarded CHF…

Artiria Medical

Artiria Medical raised CHF 3.8 million to improve stroke treatment

Artiria Medical, a swiss neurovascular start-up, raised CHF 3.8 M, including a CHF 2.7 M grant from the highly selective…

Neuro Restore

An electronic implant helps a bedridden patient to walk again

Researchers at the NeuroRestore research center in Lausanne Switzerland helped a patient suffering from a neurogenerative disease to leave her…

Neurosoft Bioelectronics

Neurosoft Bioelectronics raised CHF 3 Million

The Geneva-based company developed soft and flexible electrodes which can seamlessly interface with the brain   Neurosoft Bioelectronics, an early-stage…

Western Switzerland, paradise for Life Sciences Companies

18 new foreign life sciences companies settled in our region in 2021   Last year, according to GGBa’s annual report,…

Tech4Eva

Tech4Eva 2022 cohort

13 growth-stage startups and 15 early-stage start-ups and projects have been selected for the 2022 program.   Tech4Eva is an…

Nanolive raises US $ 20 million

The Swiss company is a pioneer in the development of live-cell imaging, and digital analytical solutions The swiss leading live-cell…

Venturelab Medtech Team 2022

Venture Leaders Medtech Team 2022

Ten startups have been chosen by a jury of investors as the Swiss National Startup Team for Venture Leaders Medtech…

MEC at Campus Biotech

A MEG plateform at Campus Biotech in 2022

A new device for brain research at the Campus Biotech   Next summer, the Human Neuroscience Platform (HNP) at Campus…

Wyss Center

Completely locked-in man uses brain-computer interface to communicate

Researchers at the Wyss Center Geneva created a device and a computer program to decode brain signals   Completely paralyzed…

Ana Pinto

INTERVIEW – Ana Pinto

🔺 Why Western Switzerland🇨🇭 is so attractive to life sciences companies? Ana Pinto, Business Partner at the Service de l’Économie…

Parithera Device

Parithera raises CHF 100 000 from FIT

The Foundation for Technological Innovation (FIT) has granted a CHF 100’000 Tech Seed loan to Parithera and its ExTrace Dx…

Nagi Bioscience

Nagi Bioscience won a € 2,5 million grant from the EIC Accelerator

The company revolutionizes pre-clinical testing with its pioneer Organism-on-Chip technology   Nagi Bioscience has been bestowed the prestigious and highly…

Swiss Medtech Ukraine

Medical devices for Ukraine

The Ukraine Embassy launches an appeal for donations   Collection points in Switzerland The war in Ukraine has thrown millions…

SEED Biosciences raises CHF 400 000

The EPFL spin-off has developed a pipetting robot that can dispense individual cells one by one.   The device, called…

Parkinson Disease

A gene could prevent Parkinson’s disease

A mutation in the Fer2 gene causes motor deficiencies in flies   The laboratory of Emi Nagoshi, Professor in the…

Monthey BioArk

BioArk Monthey is expanding

A third building is under construction at BioArk Monthey Until now, BioArk has offered 6,000m2 of space between its first…

Ceidos Founders

Ceidos revolutionises cell culture

The BioArk startup received a CHF 100 000 loan from FIT Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) are active medicines that…

Superlab Lausanne

Superlab Suisse Lausanne

A coworking space designed for scientists   Located in the Biopôle in Lausanne, Superlab Suisse offers ready to move in…

Unige breast Cancer

UNIGE: Fighting breast cancer cells growth

A low rate of a specific protein triggers tumors development. A UNIGE team found the counter-attack   In about 2/3…

Li Tang CEO Leman Biotech EPFL

$11 million for EPFL spin-off Leman Biotech

A protein that boosts the immune system can cure 90% of cancer in mice   Immunotherapy, which aims to boost…

GSK Haleon

GSK’s new company Haleon will have a site in Nyon

The pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline creates Haleon, a new company from the separation of its consumer healthcare business. This entity will…

Neo Medical

Neo Medical raises $20 million for its AR technology for spine surgery

Swisscom Ventures is the lead investor in this round. The Vaud-based company will use the new funds to accelerate the…

Massimo Nobile

INTERVIEW : Massimo Nobile

🔺 Massimo Nobile, SwissBiotech Center CEO, explains how digital and life sciences are converging to create new medicines and treatments.

MindMaze

MindMaze secures a $105 million financing round

After a banner-year, the Lausanne-based company MindMaze secures $105 Million Financing, led by Concord Health Partners, and initiates American Hospital…

Leucine Project

Leucine project: a new hub for life sciences in Lausanne

New working spaces at Biopôle Campus Lausanne Biopôle SA, in collaboration with CPEV, is developing the Leucine Building, a new…

Carrol-Plummer-and-Nigel-Wallbridge

PhytlSigns raises CHF 500 000 for a plant monitoring system

The ‘Fitbit of Plants’ uses AI sensors to monitor crops   The startup Vivent provides growers with a technology to…

Miniature Raphaël Conz

INTERVIEW : Raphaël Conz, BioAlps vice-president

🔺 Raphaël Conz, Head of the Business Unit at the Department for the Promotion of the Economy and Innovation of…

Animal Testing

Swiss voters reject ban on animal testing

Voters have rejected a complete ban on experiments on living creatures in Switzerland.   The idea of putting an end…

Adaptyv Biosystems

Adaptyv Biosystems raised CHF 2.5 million in a pre-seed funding

Adaptyv Biosystems is to create the world’s largest protein design database   The company, based in Biopôle in Epalinges, is…

Genolier Innovation Hub

Genolier Innovation Hub

A new medical Innovation Hub will open in 2024   “This is not a real estate project to house the…

Haya Therapeutics

Haya Therapeuthics closes US$ 5 Million seed extension

The Lausanne-based company will open a branch office in San Diego to continue its growth   HAYA closes US$ 5…

Miniature Claude Clément

INTERVIEW : Claude Clément, BioAlps President

  🔺 Claude Clément is BioAlps President. According to him, multiculturality is why Switzerland🇨🇭 has become so successful in the…

Science first, politics second

The “Stick to Science” petition aims to allow Swiss and British researchers to remain in Horizon Europe programme.   The…

.NeuroRestore

An implant could cure paralysis

A new implant enables patients with a complete spinal cord injury to stand, walk and even swim    Michel Roccati,…

La Source

La Source Launches H4

La Source opens an innovation platform dedicated to care and health in Vaud (Switzerland).   The H4 “Hands-on Human Health…

Distalmotion

Distalmotion | $ 90M to make sense of robotic surgery

A partnership of medtech pioneers and company-builders   Distalmotion, based in Lausanne (Switzerland), Revival Healthcare Capital and 415 CAPITAL announced…

Takeda

Takeda | New building in Neuchâtel estimated at CHF 30 million

The pharmaceutical group Takeda wishes to increase the production capacity of its site in Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and will build a…

ADC Therapeutics

ADC Therapeutics | $30 million in new partnership deal

Development & commercialisation of ZYNLONTA in Japan   ADC Therapeutics SA, a commercial-stage biotechnology company improving the lives of those…

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)

SIB | Discover the newest resources in SIB’s infrastructure portfolio for the Life Sciences

Development of national secure platforms, leading open science databases & software tools    The Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)’s mission,…

Antio Biosciences

Antion Biosciences | Exclusive collaboration & global license agreement with Allogene Therapeutics

Multiplex miCAR™ Technology   Allogene Therapeutics, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering the development of allogeneic CAR T (AlloCAR T™) products…

Adiposs SA

Adiposs | Raised CHF 1.8M 1st closing of its Pre-Series A round

CHF 1.8M to start clinical trials & product industrialisation   Adiposs SA, the developer of a unique diagnostic product for…

Venture Kick

Record-high startup support for Swiss university spin-offs in 2022

89 new innovative projects in 2022   Venture Kick continues its success story and increases its budget: having supported 841…

Magali Bischof

Magali Bischof to become the new General Secretary of BioAlps

Magali Bischof promoted Secretary General of the BioAlps Association   The Executive Committee of the BioAlps Association has chosen Mrs…

GeNeuro

GeNeuro | CHF 6.7 million for the development of COVID-19 medicines

GeNeuro received CHF 6.7 million in funding for the development of temelimab against Long-COVID   GeNeuro, a biopharmaceutical company developing…

Merck & Chord Therapeutics

Merck acquires Geneva-based biopharmaceutical company Chord Therapeutics

Merck invests into Cadribine to try to cure rare neuroinflammatory diseases   Chord Therapeutics (Chord), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing…

Xsensio

Xsensio | CHF 4.2 million to accelerate market launch

1st closing new financing round with Swiss & international investors   Xsensio, a Lausanne based startup seeking to address the…

D36.ch

Intellias and D36.ch join forces

In November 2021, Intellias, a technology partner of Fortune 500 companies and top-tier organizations, and D36.ch, an innovative Swiss healthcare startup, announced their strategic partnership. The companies are joining efforts to build a bridge between the Swiss digital health market and world-class IT services to reinforce customers’ digital strength by combining 360-degree domain expertise with state-of-the-art software engineering solutions.

Biopôle SA

Biopôle | Partnership programme with Swiss Medical Network

Biopôle SA’s innovative life sciences community continues to grow with the addition of Swiss Medical Network, one of Switzerland’s leading private…

Sun genomics

Sun Genomics | Sets up European subsidiary in Fribourg (Switzerland)

1st establishment of a US company in Western Switzerland without prior in-person meeting   A first for the canton of…

Heidi.news | BioAlps: 20 years of innovation

Medical innovation & contribution to the future of medicine   On 30 November, 2021, Mrs Annick Chevillot (Heidi.news) has moderated…

HEIG-VD

Appointment of a new Full Professor at HEIG-VD

Underlines the ambition of the HEIG-VD to pursue its development in management applied to the health sector, both in the field of education and research

HealthCare Konnect

Deep Bio and HealthCare Konnect | Improving cancer diagnosis

Deep Bio and HealthCare Konnect (HCK) partner to improve cancer diagnosis in Switzerland and North Africa   On 18 October…

OM Pharma

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | OM Pharma

Investing, innovating and hiring in Switzerland to prevent infection worldwide   We are pleased to share with you our new…

Debiopharm

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Debiopharm

Debiopharm | We develop for patients   We are pleased to share with you our new testimonial series as part…

Ichnos

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Ichnos

Developing first-in-class bi-/trispecific antibodies to treat cancer patients   We are pleased to share with you our new testimonial series…

Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform

Creation of the Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform SPSP

Switzerland establishes a national infrastructure to track COVID-19 and its variants Discover the role of the Swiss Pathogen Surveillance Platform…

Pharmalp

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Pharmalp

Developing and distributing efficacious natural healthcare products   We are pleased to share with you our new testimonial series as…

CSL

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | CSL Behring

Fast-tracking innovation through long-term mutual partnerships with academia   We are pleased to share with you our new testimonial series…

Vifor Pharma

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Vifor Pharma

On a mission to help patients live better, healthier lives   We are pleased to share with you our new…

BioArk

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | BioArk

Strengthening the Life Sciences value chain from discovery to market   We are pleased to share with you our new…

HES-SO

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | HES-SO

Supporting the Swiss economy with locally rooted training and applied research   We are pleased to share with you our…

Selexis

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Selexis

Selexis | Cell line development meets lab automation and robotics for biologic therapeutic manufacturing   We are pleased to share…

Fongit

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Fongit

Fongit | Switzerland’s premier startup incubator   We are pleased to share with you our new testimonial series as part…

SILAB

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | SILAB

SILAB ǀ Dedicated to promoting a relevant and sustainable innovation in healthcare   We are pleased to share with you…

UNIL

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | UNIL

UNIL | A commitment to transforming Life Sciences into concrete actions for the benefit of all   We are pleased…

CERN

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | CERN

CERN | Unique technologies with a wide scope of applications   We are pleased to share with you our new…

Netsensing

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Netsensing

Netsensing | Saving lives through the detection of sleep apnea   We are pleased to share with you our new…

JAG

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | JAG

JAG | Highly automated process plants for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries   We are pleased to share with you…

GGBa

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Greater Geneva Bern area

GGBa | The official investment promotion agency for Western Switzerland   We are pleased to share with you our new…

Gnubiotics

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Gnubiotics

Gnubiotics | Novel microbiome health solutions   We are pleased to share with you our new testimonial series as part…

GeNeuro

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | GeNeuro

Fighting against neurodegenerative and autoimmune disease with antibodies   We are pleased to share with you our new testimonial series…

Neurix

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Neurix

Minibrain technology enabling efficient drug testing and development   We are pleased to share with you our new testimonial series…

Coat-X

BioAlps | 20 years of innovation | Coat-X

Thin-film encapsulation technology helpi