News Feb 10, 2021 EPFL spin-off Nexthink becomes the latest Swiss unicorn Thanks to a new financing round of $180 million, the Lausanne-based publisher of enterprise IT asset management software Nexthink is valued at $1...
News Feb 09, 2021 Pharmaceutical and biotech expert ZETA opens a new subsidiary in the canton of Valais ZETA, an Austrian engineering specialist for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, has recently opened a subsidiary in Visp, with the aim of...
News Feb 09, 2021 Biopôle to welcome three new buildings dedicated to life sciences by 2024 Biopôle SA continues its expansion with the construction of three new buildings. By 2024, an additional 23’000 square meters of office and labora...
News Feb 03, 2021 Akenza named winner of the 2021 IoT Breakthrough Awards Akenza emerged victorious in the Industrial category of the global IoT Breakthrough Awards for 2021. Together with Microsoft, Akenza is supportin...
News Jan 27, 2021 Cellvie raises 5 million US dollars The life sciences firm Cellvie has successfully closed a seed funding round. With gross proceeds of 5 million US dollars, the aim now is to furth...
News Jan 27, 2021 Institute develops double antibody against COVID-19 Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine have managed to combine two antibodies against COVID-19 into a single entity. This doubl...
News Jan 27, 2021 Basel researchers developing universal cancer therapy Researchers from Basel are working on the development of a therapy in which pre-prepared immune cells can be used to treat any form of cancer imm...
News Jan 27, 2021 Siveco Group opens a subsidiary in Switzerland Siveco Group, a publisher and integrator of CMMS software, continues its expansion and sets up its first Swiss subsidiary in Fribourg. This move ...
News Jan 26, 2021 Opterion Health AG moving to Muttenz Opterion is moving from the canton of Obwalden to Muttenz in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in order to benefit from the local life sciences ecos...
News Jan 26, 2021 CPH to merge with majority shareholder CPH Chemie + Papier Holding AG is planning a takeover of Uetikon Industrieholding AG. This move would raise the free float and as a result enhanc...
News Jan 26, 2021 The University of Bern creates a multidisciplinary center to study the emergence of infectious diseases With the foundation of the Multidisciplinary Center for Infectious Diseases and Immunity, the University of Bern will be able to study the societ...
News Jan 25, 2021 Further rise in number of UZH spin-offs The University of Zurich has given rise to a total of 75 spin-offs over the past ten years. In the past year alone, seven founding teams decided ...
News Jan 25, 2021 Baumer awarded for top innovation The sensor manufacturer Baumer has been named as one of the winners of the Top Innovations 2021 decided by the trade journal inVISION. The compan...
News Jan 25, 2021 Fribourg SME Medistri will sterilize 220 million Covid-19 vaccine vials Using a special gas treatment, the Fribourg-based company Medistri suppresses all germs contained in the vials destined to receive the Covid-19 v...
News Jan 21, 2021 LatticeFlow raises 2.8 million US dollars LatticeFlow has secured 2.8 million US dollars in a funding round. The spin-off from the ETH Zurich supports companies in the development of arti...
News Jan 20, 2021 Swiss PharmaCan successfully tests anti-COVID drug Swiss PharmaCan and Australia-based MGC Pharma have successfully concluded phase II clinical testing for their COVID-19 therapeutic candidate, Ar...
News Jan 20, 2021 B. Braun manufacturing COVID-19 vaccination sets Together with two governmental departments in Switzerland, B. Braun Medical AG has designed COVID-19 vaccination sets for hospitals. The MedTech ...
News Jan 20, 2021 The University of Bern equips emergency medicine for the future With the support of the Touring Club Switzerland, an endowed professorship in emergency telemedicine was appointed at the University of Bern, aim...