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First semester starts well for FHNW Campus Muttenz

The semester has got off to a successful start at FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland’s new…

Jérémie Meyer09.20.2018

BaseLaunch’s second round – 10 projects enter Phase I

The BaseLaunch Accelerator, managed and operated by BaselArea.swiss, started on 14 September 2018 with ten projects entering Phase I. Over…

Jérémie Meyer09.18.2018

Most exciting biotechs are based in Basel

Basel is among the European biotech hubs with the most exciting companies as named by labiotech.eu. The industry platform highlighted…

Jérémie Meyer06.17.2018

“Basel has all the ingredients required to host a successful company”

The physician and pharmacologist Nicole Onetto is a member of the Board of Directors at the Basilea Pharmaceutica AG. In…

Jérémie Meyer06.11.2018

Meet the BaseLaunch Startups

Six of the BaseLaunch startups recently started Phase II. They received either grants up to 250,000 Swiss francs or gained…

Jérémie Meyer03.11.2018

BioMedPartners closes new venture capital fund

Basel-based venture capitalist firm BioMedPartners has closed its new venture capital fund BioMedInvest III at 100 million Swiss francs. The…

Jérémie Meyer03.06.2018

BaseLaunch up to a solid Phase II start

BaseLaunch has officially started Phase II of its accelerator program, and four startups are receiving grants ranging from 120,000 to…

Jérémie Meyer01.30.2018

Roivant Sciences to join BaseLaunch Accelerator as Healthcare Partner

Roivant becomes the fifth healthcare partner of BaselArea.swiss accelerator program joining Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Novartis Venture Fund, Pfizer and…

Jérémie Meyer01.18.2018

The panel (starting from left): Effy Vayena, ETH Zurich; Marcel Tanner, Swiss TPH, Switzerland Torsten Schwede, University of Basel and SIB; Paul Wicks, PatientsLikeMe; Susanne Baars, Human Genome Foundation; Thomas Bachofner, Swisscom Heatlh; Frank Baiden, Institute of Public Health, Ghana

Patient Data – Faster but with Respect and Trust

“Faster but with Respect and Trust“ - these were the final words from Effy Vayena at the DayOne Experts event…

Jérémie Meyer09.14.2017

Halozyme Therapeutics opens European headquarters

Halozyme, a U.S. biotechnology company developing novel oncology and drug-delivery therapies, has established their European headquarters office in Basel, Switzerland.

Jérémie Meyer09.05.2017