News Apr 30, 2019 Alentis raises 12.5 million Swiss francs The Basel-based biotech company Alentis Therapeutics AG has raised a total of 12.5 million Swiss francs after completing a Series A financing rou...
News Apr 26, 2019 Aargau researchers uncover the secrets of cells Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute have successfully depicted the structure of a protein that plays a key role in transmitting informatio...
Global Opportunities Apr 25, 2019 Germany’s digital health care transition poses rising opportunities for Swiss health care start-up companies With Germany’s health care system in the state of upheaval, the digital health care movement is proceeding with unprecedented speed. The innovati...
News Apr 23, 2019 SERV: Exceptional financial year 2018 On 3 April 2019, the Swiss Export Risk Insurance SERV published its Annual report 2018. SERV finishes the financial year with positive company ea...
News Apr 23, 2019 Pharma giant Merck invests CHF 165 million in the canton of Vaud Merck, a German leading science and technology company, has announced an investment of € 150 million (165 million Swiss francs) in its manufactur...
News Apr 17, 2019 Basel researchers develop innovative cell computer Controlling gene expression through gene switches has long been one of the primary objectives of synthetic biology. Researchers in Basel have now...
News Apr 10, 2019 Artificial muscles make marathon possible The startup MyoSwiss from the Greater Zurich Area has developed an artificial muscle suit. This is now enabling two people with mobility impairme...
News Apr 09, 2019 YMC acquires ETH spin-off Japanese pharma supplier YMC is acquiring ChromaCon AG. The spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) develops and ...
News Apr 04, 2019 Humabs BioMed opens new research laboratory Humabs BioMed has inaugurated a new research laboratory in Bellinzona. Two years ago, the Ticino-based biotech company was taken over by US corpo...
News Apr 03, 2019 Researchers create artificial bacterial genome A breakthrough has been achieved by researchers at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. They have successfully built and synthesi...
News Mar 28, 2019 Polyneuron raises 22.5 million Swiss francs Polyneuron Pharmaceuticals has successfully raised 22.5 million francs in a round of financing. The Basel-based company will use the proceeds to ...
News Mar 27, 2019 Western Switzerland welcomed 92 new foreign companies in 2018 The Greater Geneva Bern area (GGBa), together with the economic development offices of its six member cantons, contributed to the establishment o...
News Mar 25, 2019 Valais-based start-up SimplicityBio acquired by Precision for Medicine Thanks to its unique approach in the field of artificial intelligence, SimplicityBio, a start-up based at the BioArk in Monthey, is being acquire...
News Mar 22, 2019 CHUV ranked among ten best hospitals worldwide The prestigious U.S. magazine Newsweek has included the Lausanne University Hospital in its annual list of the ten best hospitals in the world.
News Mar 22, 2019 Cancer therapy Keytruda has roots in Lucerne The cancer therapy Keytruda builds upon the strength of the human immune system and has already earned the US pharmaceutical company Merck&CO...
News Mar 22, 2019 SpiroChem enters into partnership with UK’s Domainex In future, UK drug discovery services company Domainex will be using molecular fragments from SpiroChem in its discovery work for new agents. As ...
News Mar 19, 2019 Biopôle inagurates the Digital Health Hub Biopôle SA has launched a new innovation center dedicated to digital health. The new platform addresses the growing demand for a forum and gather...
News Mar 13, 2019 Roche takes Switzerland to number one for patents In 2018, no other country in Europe saw more patents filed relative to population size than Switzerland. This has been found by a new report from...