Posts Tagged ‘Biotech’
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 million in a new medical hub. The ambition is to bring together health care players in a real clinic situation with a luxury hotel experience. The construction of this 25,000 m2 building dedicated…
Read MoreA 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 has been living with HIV since the early 1990s and has always been on antiretroviral treatment. In 2018, to treat a particularly aggressive form of leukaemia, he underwent a stem cell transplant. One month after…
Read MoreThe 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 the video from 18’00. ▶️ Video link
Read Moreten23 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 commercial sterile drug products according to international cGMP standards. The new quality control division will be set up in Basel and Visp. In Basel ten23 health® will offer physico-chemical testing, including content, purity, identity…
Read MoreCHUV 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. Thanks to a private donation of CHF 2.8 million coordinated by the ISREC Foundation, the CHUV will pursue promising research, with the aim of launching a clinical trial at the end of 2024. The…
Read MoreAC 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 Administration (FDA) for its wholly-owned anti-amyloid beta (Abeta) active immunotherapy (vaccine)-candidate, ACI-24.060, for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. This follows FDA clearance of the Investigational New Drug (IND) application enabling expansion to the USA of…
Read MoreDewi, 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 of UNIL/CHUV and works on the next generation DNA sequencing tools. The three other projects are spin-offs from EPFL: Dewi anticipates anxiety attacks through neuroscience, naialabs allows at-home blood testing and MagFlow is miniaturizing microcatheters.…
Read MoreIsospec 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 measure them in a fast and reliable way, digitizing molecular structure, and greatly simplifying identification processes. This technology is key for the development of precision medicine. The molecular structure of a compound plays…
Read MoreA 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) has successfully treated a patient suffering from an antibiotic-resistant chronic bacterial lung infection using bacteriophages. This Swiss first was achieved thanks to a highly personalised, multidisciplinary approach involving the selection of a bacteriophage (a…
Read More>>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 the SwissTech Convention Center. BioSimo : Grand Prize (ZH) Biosimo has been awarded with CHF 150,000 and a McKinsey & Company business consulting package to keep venturing forward successfully. This Zürich-based chemical engineering…
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