US authority contributes to the costs for Basilea development
Basel Area-based biopharmaceutical company Basilea will receive initial funding of 29 million US dollars from BARDA for the development of...
BioVersys receives investment of 6 million US dollars from China
The Basel-based company BioVersys will integrate China in the clinical development of its main product BV100. For this, the Guangzhou...
Roche opens new research and development center
Roche has inaugurated a new pharmaceutical research and development center in Basel. The company has invested 1.2 billion Swiss francs...
Biotech companies wing their way to the Basel Area
Basel Area has proven to be the favoured location for many of the world’s biggest, best and newest innovators in...
Five startups from the Basel Area feature in the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award
The 14th edition of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award has named the greatest startups in Switzerland. Five startups from...
Basel to stage the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Basel has emerged victorious in a neck-and-neck race against Geneva: Switzerland’s most important trade fair city will play host to...
Genedata acquired by Danaher
The Basel-based biotechnology company Genedata has been taken over by the Danaher Corporation in the USA. With this takeover, the...
Straumann agrees full takeover of Mininavident
The Basel-based dental provider Straumann has fully acquired Mininavident AG. The startup from Liestal has developed a guidance system for...
Vector8 acquires wefox’s Parisian AI team
Vector8 is buying the Paris-based artificial intelligence team of Germany insurance company wefox. With this, the company based in Basel...
New BIIE research institute established in Basel
The Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering has been founded in Basel. The research location Basel managed to hold off competition...
Bright Peak Therapeutics secures investment of 90 million US dollars
Basel Area and San Diego-based Bright Peak Therapeutics has closed a Series C financing round, securing investment of 90 million...
Syngenta seeks collaborations in the field of gene technology
The Basel-based agricultural company Syngenta is seeking to grant the international research community access to some of its gene and...
SixPeaks Bio debuts with financing of 110 million US dollars
The Basel-based biotech company SixPeaks Bio has secured an investment of 30 million dollars from Versant Ventures and has agreed...
Allegria Therapeutics raises 3.5 million dollars in seed financing round
Allegria Therapeutics has received seed funding of 3.5 million dollars from the founding investor Forty51 Ventures. The Basel-based biotech startup...
BioVersys extends Series C financing round to 44.9 million Swiss francs
Basel-based BioVersys is bolstering its partnership with GSK in order to accelerate the development of alpibectir for the treatment of...
Basel research paves way for new drugs
Chemists at the University of Basel have developed a new synthesis approach to artificially create terpenes. These contain substances that...
Johnson & Johnson opens Innovation Hub in Allschwil
Johnson & Johnson has opened its first J&J Innovation Hub on the European mainland at the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel...
BGG from China opens headquarters in Basel
BGG is establishing new global headquarters in Basel, from which it plans to grow in Europe and the USA. The...
First BOOM Summit was a success
The organizers of the BOOM Summit are happy with the first edition. In total, 500 experts exchanged their knowledge and...
Indivi joins forces with Biogen
Indivi and Biogen are cooperating on the development of digital biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease. To this end, the US biotech...
Nouscom receives additional funding for cancer vaccines
Nouscom has received an investment totalling 7 million euros from the Italian venture capital firm Angelini Ventures. The Basel-based biotech...
Scaling the digital mountain
Hub locations are as much a feature in healthcare as for life sciences in general. In this article, originally published...
Basel Area attracts companies from 17 different countries
Basel Area Business & Innovation supported a total of 34 companies in their efforts to establish a business presence in...
Chemspeed acquired by Bruker
Chemspeed Technologies is to be integrated in Bruker, the US manufacturer of instruments used in life sciences research. The specialist...
Syngenta seeks partners for six innovative projects
Agrochemical giant Syngenta has used its Shoots by Syngenta platform to announce six research projects for which it is seeking...
Idorsia enters collaboration with Viatris
The biotech company Idorsia from the canton of Basel-Landschaft and the North American pharmaceutical company Viatris are collaborating on the...
Healthtech and the digital healthcare revolution
From drug discovery to the management of chronic illnesses, how are digital solutions transforming the healthcare industry? This article, originally...
Basel Area records impressive startup year 2023
In 2023, a total of 30 startups from the Basel Area received fresh capital from investors. Between them, they banked...
Cheplapharm has major plans for the Basel Area
Cheplapharm Switzerland will seek to drive the growth of the group, and execute global acquisitions of established medicines from large...
Basel-Stadt expands innovation promotion
The canton of Basel-Stadt is increasing its innovation funding to a total of 67 million Swiss francs by 2030. Existing...
Noor Biotech opts to establish location in Basel
Noor Biotech has established a presence in Basel. The startup, which is managed by its Saudi Arabian co-founder Nuha Alakhmimi,...
UPM Biomedicals chooses the Basel Area as European bridgehead
UPM Biomedicals is opening a lab on the Main Campus of Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. The Finnish company specializes...
Macrogen establishes foothold in Basel
Macrogen Europe is set to move into the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area at Novartis Campus. As with its parent...
Scailyte and Artbio making headlines in Basel
The biotech company Scailyte has raised 8 million US dollars as part of a Series A financing round. For its...
Five startups advance to final phase of DayOne Health 4.0
Five international healthtech startups – including the Bern-based startup machineMD – have made it to the final phase of DayOne...
Four new buildings for Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area
The Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area in Allschwil in the canton of Basel-Landschaft is set to be expanded from 50,000...
Boehringer Ingelheim acquires T3 Pharma
Boehringer Ingelheim has acquired T3 Pharma, which is based in the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, for an amount of...
Roche investing an additional 1.2 billion Swiss francs in Basel
Roche will be putting an additional 1.2 billion Swiss francs towards the renovation of its site in Basel. This investment...
Nouscom secures 67.5 million euros in financing
Biotech company Nouscom has raised 67.5 million euros in a series C financing round. The Basel-based firm intends to use...
How open innovation in healthtech hubs is fueling the rise of digital healthcare
How the ever-increasing uptake of digital solutions is enhancing patient engagement, increasing access to care and lowering the cost of...
How to access the U.S. market with your medical device
In one of our latest Venture Mentoring events by Basel Are Business & Innovation, we invited Nila-Pia Rähle to speak...
Paradigm shift in pain management
Pain is a crucial sensation for survival, but it can also drive us to depression and long-term suffering if not...
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BOOM Summit in Basel accelerates health technology
The BOOM Summit at Messe Basel in April 2024 will be a completely new kind of healthcare conference. The first...
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Investors stump up 3.7 million Swiss francs in Onena Medicines
Onena Medicines has secured an investment of 3.7 million Swiss francs. The portfolio company of the biotech startup incubator BaseLaunch...
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CSL joins Basel Area biotech cluster
The research and development department of the globally active Australian biotech company CSL has moved into a new office in...
Palto Therapeutics receives 150,000 Swiss francs from Venture Kick
Allschwil-based Palto Therapeutics has won the third stage of the Venture Kick promotional funding program. As such, the company now...
Beyond the cliché: the real advantages of business in Switzerland
Meet our Chief Representative USA: with over 30 years in the biotech industry, Kirsten Detrick brings invaluable expertise for companies...
Roche uses artificial intelligence for cancer diagnosis
Roche is teaming up with Ibex Medical Analytics and Amazon Web Services in the field of artificial intelligence. The goal...
Cimeio collaborating with the University of Pennsylvania
The Basel-based startup Cimeio has been offered an exceptional opportunity for a preclinical research collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania,...
biGENIUS receives 2 million euros for new cloud product
Software company biGENIUS, based in the Basel Area, has secured financing of 2 million euros. This funding was granted following...
Opterion Health secures investment of 6.5 million Swiss francs
Opterion Health has raised a total of 6.5 million Swiss francs as part of a financing round. The company, which...
TOLREMO receives 39 million US dollars in investments
TOLREMO Therapeutics has concluded a series A funding round with 39 million US dollars. The biotech company based in Basel...
Mazars opens tenth Swiss office in Basel
Mazars is now also present in Basel with a subsidiary as of September 1. This is the tenth Swiss location...
Medtech in Switzerland – bringing together traditional skills and hightech industry
How the intersection of traditional and novel skillsets in the Jura area is propelling Switzerland into a new era of...
Fondation Botnar supporting further research into pediatric health
The Basel-based Botnar Research Centre for Child Health has received a further donation of 50 million Swiss francs from the...
Forty51 Ventures invests to found Mysthera Therapeutics
Mysthera Therapeutics AG has been founded in Basel. Forty51 Ventures, a venture capital firm also based in Basel, has provided...
Spexis receives capital commitment of 2.5 million US dollars
Investors have made an additional capital commitment to Spexis AG, based in the Basel Area. With an extra 2.5 million...
Worg secures financing of 130 million Swiss francs
The Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Worg Pharma, whose European headquarters are located in the Basel Area, has secured gross proceeds equivalent...
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Tenpoint aims to make vision loss reversible
The startup Tenpoint Therapeutics has started operations with a funding round of 70 million US dollars. It works to make...
Roche and ETH training the next generation of researchers
Roche, the Basel-based life sciences firm, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) are joining forces to...
Clear Solutions Labs seeks to benefit from the Basel Area
The founders of Clear Solutions Laboratories are putting together a team of experts in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceutical science...
QuantumBasel offers access to the world’s most powerful quantum computers
QuantumBasel has consolidated its status as a neutral quantum hub with access to the world’s best quantum computers through a...
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How digital transformation is driving pharmaceutical innovation in Basel
How are digital innovations such as artificial intelligence and machine learning helping to improve drug research and development? Digital technologies...
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Medical informatics is shaping Switzerland’s digital future
Switzerland is at the forefront of embracing medical informatics, and innovative biotech hubs – such as the Basel Area –...
Ground-breaking oncology being developed in the Basel Area
The Basel Area – covering northwestern Switzerland – has seen tremendous growth in recent years, and has become a true...
Genedata expanding its user network
The Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Ajinomoto is to use the Genedata solution to accelerate its drug development processes at its site...
How Moderna is growing in Switzerland
The number one rule in real estate is “Location, Location, Location.” The global biotech company Moderna found its location in...
Sandoz decides on Basel for headquarters
Sandoz AG will continue to have its headquarters in Basel as an independent company. The separation from Novartis is expected...
VectivBio sold for approximately 1 billion dollars
The takeover of VectivBio is now being finalized: the Boston-based firm Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, which specializes in gastrointestinal medicine, has agreed...
University of Basel and RocketVax present new Covid vaccine
Researchers from the University of Basel have developed a new concept for a Covid vaccine in collaboration with the biotech...
Rami Swiss and Elbit Systems now manufacturing in Jura
The newly established company Rami Swiss has inaugurated a new production facility in Courtételle in the canton of Jura together...
Basel to become Europe’s Silicon Valley of biotech
Silicon Valley is synonymous with technology and innovation, and home to dozens of Fortune 1000 companies and thousands of startups....
Roche and Novartis among global leaders for research spending
In 2022, Roche invested 16 billion euros in research and development overall. This puts the Basel-based life sciences firm in...
Roche to found Institute for Human Biology
Roche has announced that it will be establishing the Institute of Human Biology in Basel. Up to 250 employees will...
Provectis establishes presence in Basel
Provectis Healthcare has chosen Basel as the location for its headquarters. The company is striving to become the partner of...
Alentis raises 105 million US dollars
Alentis Therapeutics has received 105 million US dollars in a series C funding round. It will invest the funds in...
Spirecut establishes presence in the Basel Area
Spirecut has opted to establish its new headquarters in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. The company is now operating out of...
Evolva launches new line for manufacturers of personal care products
Evolva, a manufacturer of active ingredients based in Reinach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, will be presenting its new product...
Record figure for startups in the Basel Area
Basel Area Business & Innovation has supported a record number of 96 company startups in 2022. The number of settlements...
Noema Pharma raises 103 million Swiss francs from investors
Noema Pharma has raised a total of 103 million Swiss francs as part of an oversubscribed Series B financing round....
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Why CDMO companies choose the Basel Area as their location
This article highlights the increasingly important issue of location for contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs), and discusses how elements...
No one too small to make a difference
This article introduces the Swiss Triple Impact and summarizes the keynote held by Martin Studer, the 25th of August at...
Basel still the most attractive small city for business in Europe
As with last year, Basel once again features among the most attractive locations in Europe for investments. It was ranked...
Cities and regions can drive demand for sustainable business models
This article introduces the Solar Impulse Foundation and summarizes the keynote held by Robin Henri on the 25th of August...
Ariceum Therapeutics establishes subsidiary in Basel
The German life sciences firm Ariceum Therapeutics has established a subsidiary in Basel. This company has received support from Basel...
RocketVax raises fresh capital
The Basel-based biotech startup RocketVax has successfully closed another financing round. This additional funding will primarily be used to further...
Find the perfect business match
Businesses need partners to grow and become successful. Valentina Francia helps companies find suitable partners in the Basel Area: She...
Clinerion is now part of Citeline
Clinerion has been integrated into New York-based company Citeline. Clinerion plans to expand its portfolio with Citeline’s complementary opportunities with...
KUORI developing biodegradable plastics
The Basel-based cleantech company KUORI GmbH develops alternative materials for conventional plastics. The aim is to reduce the accumulation of...
Cell and gene therapies gain momentum in Basel
Companies specializing in the research and development of innovative cell and gene therapies continue to spring up all around the...
Digital twins and data visualization in Industry 4.0
We invited five speakers to talk about digital twins, data visualization and the Building Information Modeling (BIM) used in the...
BLKB expanding support for startups
BLKB offers particularly promising SMEs and startups financial support within the framework of the “100 fürs Baselbiet” program. These companies...
Cyber security for the digitized and networked world
No company is safe from cybercriminals. Everyone has heard of hacker attacks, but few companies are really prepared.
Combatting the rise of antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global threat that, without intervention, could lead to as many as 10 million deaths annually...
AMR Action Fund invests in new antibiotics developed by BioVersys
The AMR Action Fund has made its first European investment in BioVersys, which is headquartered at Tech Park Basel. The...
Investors give Resistell 8.5 million Swiss francs
Resistell AG has secured 8.5 million Swiss francs in the first part of its series B funding round. The biotechnology...
BSI integrating AI from Parashift in banking software
Parashift, the specialist in the area of smart document processing on the basis of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has entered into...
Europe’s booming biotech powerhouse is called Basel
The first places to spring to mind when most people think of “life sciences hubs” are long-established, high-profile geographical locations...
UptownBasel joins IBM Quantum Network
UptownBasel is partnering with IBM. The emerging competence center for Industry 4.0 will provide its partners with the IBM Quantum...
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South Korean pharma firms show interest in the Basel Area
Several South Korean firms from the life sciences industry, including three pharmaceutical multinationals, have visited the Basel Area on fact-finding...
Gamma Technologies acquires ProFEMAG portfolio
The Basel-based firm ProFEMAG AG has sold its FEMAG software for electrical machine applications to Gamma Technologies. The company based...
Databaum establishes headquarters in Basel
Databaum is establishing its headquarters in Basel and plans to grow from its location there. The startup provides the agricultural...
Clinerion launches patient information platform
Basel-based Clinerion is introducing its machine learning platform. It comprises a global network of hospitals and enables researchers to recognize...
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New innovation campus opens in the Basel Area
The Main Campus of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area was officially opened on October 29. In his speech, Federal...
Sumitovant acquires all shares in Myovant
Sumitovant is in the process of making Basel-based Myovant Sciences a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring a 100 percent shareholding...
VectivBio raises 125 million US dollars in stock sale
VectivBio has announced the closing of the subscription offer for 16,700,000 ordinary shares. The Basel-based biotechnology firm has generated gross...
KetoSwiss secures capital increase of 4 million dollars
KetoSwiss has banked a total of 4 million US dollars from investors. The Basel-based startup develops products to alleviate neurological...
“The Basel Area is steaming ahead of the international competition”
Switzerland’s research-based pharmaceutical companies are a success story, says René P. Buholzer. The Managing Director of Interpharma explains why certain...
Escientia Switzerland becomes Primopus
The Indian company Deccan Fine Chemicals is acquiring Escientia Switzerland and renaming it as Primopus AG. The new owner announces...
Novartis investing 100 million Swiss francs in new biologics center
The pharmaceutical company Novartis is investing a sum of 100 million Swiss francs in a new competence center for biologics...
Official opening of the competence center uptownBasel
uptownBasel celebrated its official opening. Technology companies such as Bouygues and Vinci Energies are already occupying the first building of...
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Eight startups from Basel Area feature in TOP 100 Swiss Startups
Among the most promising startups in Switzerland eight companies from Basel Area's startup ecosystem have been named. They are some...
Roche opens tallest building in Switzerland
Roche has inaugurated a new office building with 3,200 positions in Basel. Standing 205 meters high, Building 2 is the...
DayOne Tech supports three medtech startups
DayOne, the healthcare innovation initiative from Basel Area Business & Innovation, has started its medtech accelerator in the canton of...
DelphianLogic opens European headquarters in Basel
DelphianLogic has opted for Basel as the location for its European headquarters. From its new base in Basel, the award-winning...
Versant Ventures establishes Vector BioPharma AG
Vector Biopharma is the latest company to be founded by Ridgeline, a discovery engine from Basel-based venture capitalist Versant Ventures....
BioFi AG newly settles in Basel
BioFi has set up its headquarters in Basel. The company has emerged from Crowley Davis Research, which was established in...
Forty51 closes first fund totaling 43 million US dollars
A new Basel-based venture fund, Forty51 Ventures I, has raised a total of 43 million US dollars following a first...
Basel life sciences sector is the most productive in the world
No other life sciences hub in the world is growing as rapidly as the Basel Region, which recorded growth of...
AstraZeneca and docdok.health improving asthma control
AstraZeneca and the Basel-based startup docdok.health are jointly developing a new digital solution to treat chronic respiratory diseases. Studies at...
Basel Area achieves milestone with settling of LifeMine
Life sciences company LifeMine Therapeutics from the USA has established its European headquarters in the Basel Area. With this, Basel...
Space Pharmaceuticals establishes presence in Basel
Space Pharmaceuticals AG is strengthening the life sciences cluster in the Basel Area. At its research lab, the cheminformatics company...
What’s fueling Basel Area’s advanced manufacturing ecosystem
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to have an unmistakable effect on the pharmaceutical industry and its manufacturing processes. Learn more about...
NextImmune to benefit from Venture Kick financing
The startup accelerator Venture Kick is supporting NextImmune with financing in the amount of 150,000 Swiss francs. The spin-off from...
OECD impressed by the canton of Jura’s innovation system
The OECD has examined the innovation systems in place in rural areas of its member states, including the canton of...
ti&m opens branch in Basel
ti&m now has an office in Basel. With this action, the company specializing in digitization, security and innovation projects is...
What can artificial intelligence do for health?
What’s the state of artificial intelligence in healthcare? It's potential has been recognized by the medtech industry, health systems, pharmaceutical...
Economic promotion agency creates 55 new jobs in Jura
The economic promotion agency of the canton of Jura supported a total of 26 companies in founding, establishing a presence...
Investors top up capital of BioVersys
BioVersys has raised 24.2 million Swiss francs in a series C funding round. The Basel-based pharmaceutical company plans to use...
Swiss made software label awarded to 1000th company
Swiss made software GmbH has now awarded its seal of quality to its 1,000th member firm. The “swiss made software”...
EvokAI to acquire Advancience
EvokAI Creative Labs Inc. has agreed a deal to acquire Advancience. The diagnosis profiles enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed...
BeiGene opens European headquarters in Basel
BeiGene has opened its new European headquarters in Basel. The global biotech specializing in innovative cancer treatments intends to build...
Engimmune Therapeutics banks 15.5 million Swiss francs
Engimmune Therapeutics will now be in a position to drive forward its innovative platforms for the development of T-cell therapies...
Bionter receives 3 million US dollars in investments
Bionter AG has received 3 million US dollars in a seed funding round. These funds will enable Bionter to bring...
Resistell seeking to further develop test to combat antibiotic resistance
The startup Resistell has launched a study looking into the applicability of a test against antibiotic resistances that is being...
Biotech startup Cimeio receives 46 million Swiss francs for cell therapy
Cimeio Therapeutics from Basel has received initial financing amounting to 46 million Swiss francs from Versant Ventures. The startup is...
Superlab Suisse heading to Basel
Superlab Suisse is bringing its Lab-as-a-Service business concept to Basel. The company will open a new location with lab and...
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Swiss TPH opens new building on the site of BaseLink
The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute has officially opened its multifunctional new building at the Basel Area’s new life...
World first in the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area
Eldico Scientific has opened the world’s first experience center for electron diffractometry in the site Allschwil of the Switzerland Innovation...
DayOne healthtech accelerator launches new offering
DayOne shares the launch of DayOne Accelerator 2.0, marking a transition to three verticals that will enable the growth of...
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Basel Area sets new record for new company settlements
For Basel Area Business & Innovation, 2021 was a record year. Last year, the investment and innovation promotion agency supported...
Ginkgo Bioworks to acquire Basel-based firm FGen AG
The US biotechnology firm Ginkgo Bioworks has agreed a takeover deal for the startup FGen. The Basel-based firm develops technologies...
Antimicrobial Resistance is a threat – and the Basel Area is part of the solution
Antimicrobial Resistance is a global threat, but Switzerland is part of the solution. Learn more about the Basel Area ecosystem...
ACROBiosystems establishes presence in the Basel Area
ACROBiosystems headquartered in Beijing has selected the Basel Area to expand its research and commercial activities in Europe.
Basel among the most future-oriented cities in Europe
fDi Intelligence has investigated the most important tech cities across Europe. Basel secured top spot in the category of small...
AMR Action Fund opens European office in Basel
The AMR Action Fund has moved into its new European office in Basel. The venture fund is the largest public-private...
InOpSys heading to Basel
The Belgian company InOpSys is opening a subsidiary in Basel. The supplier of water purification solutions intends to press on...
Basel startups impress investors
According to the latest Swiss Venture Capital Report, investments in Swiss startups increased by 44 percent last year. As a...
Basel Area – exactly the right chemistry for South Korean pharma companies
KPBMA and Basel Area Business & Innovation establish tailored collaboration to support Korean biopharmaceutical companies to enter the European market
Basel Area supporting three digital health startups
Basel Area Business & Innovation will be offering intensive support to the three winners of its DayOne Digital Health Accelerator...
Gray establishes presence in Basel
The North American fully integrated specialty service provider Gray has established a subsidiary in Basel. The key factors in favor...
Artificial Intelligence able to identify potentially life-saving antibiotics
A computer algorithm has identified antibiotics that that are still effective against infections in which multi-resistant germs are present. University...
Investors give Anaveon 110 million Swiss francs
Anaveon has received investment commitments amounting to 110 million Swiss francs in a Serie B funding round. The Basel-based biopharmaceutical...
Basel alliance seeks to combat antibiotic resistance
The Spearhead alliance has been founded in Basel with the aim of combating the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance. By...
Kinarus and Noorik awarded federal grants
The Basel-based biopharmaceutical companies Kinarus and Noorik have been awarded federal grants for their clinical trials investigating drug candidates to...
Alloy acquires deepCDR and will expand Basel site
Alloy Therapeutics, a biotechnology firm from Boston in the USA, has acquired the Basel-based startup deepCDR Biologics. Alloy labs and...
Basel Healthtech fund successfully closed
The venture capital firm MTIP has announced the successful closing of its FUND II. It is one of the first...
Roche tests able to detect Omicron
The Roche subsidiary TIB Molbiol has developed new coronavirus testing kits that can also detect the new Omicron variant of...
Hemex banks 7.1 million Swiss francs
Hemex has raised a total of 7.1 million Swiss francs as part of a Series C financing round. The company...
EsoCap impresses investors
EsoCap, a biotech company based in Basel, has concluded a successful funding round. The funds from new and existing investors...
Plug and Play settles in the Basel Area
Plug and Play is coming to the canton of Basel-Landschaft. The first founding partner of the innovation promoter from Silicon...
Bachem builds its largest production building
Bachem has laid the foundation stone for its largest production building to date. The company specializing in the manufacture of...
Bottneuro advancing personalized Alzheimer’s therapy
Basel-based startup Bottneuro is working on the development of personalized therapies to treat Alzheimer’s disease in which certain areas of...
Straumann plans to build innovation center in the Basel Area
The Basel-based dental specialist Straumann is planning to construct a new technology and innovation center in Arlesheim in the canton...
“To create the future of health, we need to come together as an ecosystem”
The future of health has already begun – but where does it lead us to? Patricia Gee is director of the...
Ontotext opens new office in the Basel Area
Ontotext, a company based in New York City and the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, has opened a new location at...
The gravitational attraction of the Basel Area – Europe’s leading healthcare hub
Breakthrough advances in digital technology and artificial intelligence are transforming how we manage our health, and helping data-driven life science...
Owkin heads to Basel
The Franco-US startup Owkin is establishing a branch office in Basel. The company develops solutions for the life sciences industry...
Danish AI company settling in the Basel Area
Abzu has settled on the Novartis Campus of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. From there, the Danish deep tech...
«I always wanted to create something from scratch»
Already when he was young, he was driven to create and invent. Today at the age of 33, Gwenael Hannema...
Basel Area becomes the Swiss hotspot for Chinese pharma companies
More and more Chinese pharmaceutical companies are choosing the Basel Area as location for their subsidiary in Switzerland. Among them...
New offering for digital health startups in the Basel Area
Basel Area Business & Innovation is expanding the offering of its DayOne Accelerator – both in terms of content and...
Botanikind settles in Basel
The internationally active Swiss company Botanikind has settled in Basel and established Botanikind AG there. It provides natural ingredients for...
Kinarus secures capital commitment of 57 million Swiss francs
The biopharmaceutical company Kinarus has signed a capital commitment of up to 57 million Swiss francs with the investment group...
Biotech startups from the Basel Area confirm leading position
As part of the Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards 2021, the most promising startups in Switzerland are honored. These also...
T3 Pharma wins Swiss Economic Award
T3 Pharma has won the Swiss Economic Award 2021. Switzerland’s most prestigious young entrepreneur prize is awarded by the Swiss...
Worg selects Basel Area for European headquarters
Worg Pharmaceuticals has opted to establish its European headquarters at the site Allschwil of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area....
ten23 health settles in Basel
The life sciences cluster Rosental Mitte located in Basel is home to a new, globally active company called ten23 health....
Lumineo installs translucent concrete wall for Vinci
The global construction and energy group Vinci engaged the jurassic Lumineo Group to design a wall made from translucent concrete...
Roivant invests 200 million dollars in Immunovant
The Basel-based Roivant Group has invested a total of 200 million dollars in the US biopharmaceutical company Immunovant. This investment...
Lyfegen collaborating with Johnson & Johnson
The Basel-based startup Lyfegen has developed a platform for value-based healthcare. This should provide improved outcomes for patients and result...
Bottmedical enters the market with innovative braces
The Basel-based startup Bottmedical has developed clear braces made from bio-based polymers. After closing a successful financing round, the company...
TargImmune raises nearly 18 million Swiss francs
The Basel-based biotechnology firm TargImmune has raised 17.7 million Swiss francs as part of a financing round. It now intends...
KetoSwiss launches first product in the USA
The Basel-based biotech startup KetoSwiss develops innovative therapies for neurological disorders. Following a successful capital increase, the company now has...
For Swiss startups, China might be closer than it seems
China wants to strengthen domestic demand and be less dependent on imports. This policy has huge implications for the life...
Basel Area treads unique path
Basel Area is responsible for both location and innovation promotion. This approach, which is unique across Switzerland, is very successful...
Alentis secures 67 million US dollars
The Basel-based biotechnology company Alentis Therapeutics has secured 67 million US dollars in a series B funding round. The funds...
RocketVax secures partners for coronavirus vaccine in Basel
RocketVax has found cooperation partners for the development of its innovative coronavirus vaccine. The University Hospital of Basel, the University...
Bright Peak secures investment of 107 million dollars
Bright Peak has raised a total of 107 million US dollars as part of a financing round. The biotechnology firm...
Scailyte now calls Basel home
The biotechnology firm Scailyte is now installed at the Novartis Campus of Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. Scailyte develops solutions...
BGO Software establishes branch in Basel
The Bulgarian firm BGO Software has now established a presence in Basel after founding BGO Software und Technologie GmbH. The...
Basel is very open to newcomers
Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan talks about diversity at Novartis and his positive experience of living in Basel. “I’ve found that...
ACM Biosciences receives support for Covid-19 vaccine
Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency, is supporting the Basel-based biotechnology company ACM Biosciences with a grant. This is intended for...
Basilea receives grant for novel antibiotic
The CARB-X initiative is granting a sum of 2.7 million US dollars to the Basel-based pharmaceuticals company Basilea. This will...
Discover the Basel Area as #1 in biotech investment
A total of 700+ life science companies call the Basel Area their home. It has become the premier biotech cluster...
Qnami secures investment of 4 million Swiss francs
Qnami has raised a total of 4 million Swiss francs from investors after successfully closing a Series A financing round....
TÜV NORD CERT opens office in Basel
The certification specialist TÜV NORD CERT has opened its own office in Basel. From here, customers across the whole of...
Typewise presents new smartphone keyboard
The startup Typewise is presenting the third generation of its virtual keyboard for smartphones. Typewise 3.0 uses a new patented...
Basel Area starts new i4Challenge
The next round of the i4Challenge support program is getting underway. With this, Basel Area Business & Innovation is striving...
Basel Area shapes future health innovations
A success factor for the Basel Area has been its steady transformation. From chemicals through the pharmaceutical industry to the...
Biggest successes in 2020 for biotechs in the Basel Area
Biotech companies in the Basel Area played a key role in the sector’s record performance in 2020. The latest Swiss...
New innovation campus to be named Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area Main Campus
A new innovation campus is currently under construction in Allschwil. This will be known as Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area...
Synendos Therapeutics expands financing to 24 million Swiss francs
Ysios Capital joins the existing consortium of European investors to expand the Series A financing for Synendos Therapeutics. The Allschwil-based...
Innosuisse funding new RocketVax coronavirus vaccine
Leading Swiss experts in immunology and virology have joined forces in the Basel-based startup RocketVax with the aim of developing...
MTIP using new fund to invest in innovative companies
The Basel-based firm MTIP AG specializes in investments in HealthTech companies. A total of 130 million euros has already been...
Basel Area records successful 2020
Basel Area Business & Innovation was able to newly settle a total of 27 companies in the Basel Area in...
BetterDoc opts for Basel
The online medical service BetterDoc has selected Basel as its Swiss location. Together with the health insurance firm Assura, it...
Kybora settles its European headquarters in Basel
The American consultancy Kybora, which operates within the life sciences industry, has established its European headquarters in Basel. Kybora GmbH...
Escientia establishes subsidiary in the Basel Area
The U.S. company Escientia Life Sciences Group has established a subsidiary in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Escientia Switzerland will offer...
MyCamper is a European growth champion
The Financial Times has included the Basel-based firm MyCamper in its list of the 1,000 fastest-growing startups in Europe. MyCamper...
BioVersys receives funding in the fight against tuberculosis
The Basel-based pharma company BioVersys has received 2.7 million euros in funding alongside two partners. This financing serves to help...
Biosynex takes up residence in Delémont
The French company Biosynex develops analytical, diagnostic and prophylactic medical devices. Its portfolio includes a test for Covid-19. It has...
Novartis Campus wird weiter geöffnet
Der Neubau des Pavillons auf dem Novartis Campus in Basel soll zum 25-Jahr-Jubiläum im Herbst fertig sein. Der Campus soll...
Novartis Campus opening further
Novartis' 25-year anniversary also marks the next step in the ongoing opening of the campus. The Switzerland Innovation Park Basel...
Hemex attracts Swiss investors
A group of experienced Swiss entrepreneurs and private investors have participated in a significantly oversubscribed financing round for Hemex. The...
Rhizen drug secures approval in the USA
The United States Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval for the drug Umbralisib. Basel biotech Rhizen has discovered...
Novaremed secures US$50 million
Basel biotech Novaremed is receiving US$50 million through an agreement with an investment group. Novaremed will use this financing to...
Axtria driving growth from Basel
The US firm Axtria has established a new office in Basel. The company offers services for the life sciences industry...
Technologiepark Basel celebrates its role as a driver of innovation
The Technologiepark Basel will be ten years old in 2021. Over the past decade, it has supported many startups and...
Basel Area has ever more to offer investors
The canton of Basel-Stadt has displayed the most striking performance in the Swiss Venture Capital Report. Last year, more than...
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...
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...
Evolva brings natural sugar blocker to market
The biotech company Evolva is introducing L-arabinose to the market. This product is a natural sugar blocker and can be...
Holmusk opens new office in Basel
Holmusk has opened an office in Basel. The company from Singapore develops digital therapies on the basis of data analysis....
Zifo RnD Solutions coming to Basel
Zifo RnD Solutions, a global provider of IT solutions for research-based organizations, opens its latest subsidiary in Basel. With Zifo...
«We will show the new product at the Olympic Games 2021 in Tokyo»
The new Basel Area Business & Innovation Podcast offers exciting conversations with interesting interview partners. The first guest is surgeon...
Patients stand to benefit from innovative tech project
The investment and innovation promotion agency Basel Area Business & Innovation is joining forces with several partners to realize a...
Boehringer Ingelheim acquires Basel’s NBE-Therapeutics
German pharma group Boehringer Ingelheim is to acquire the Basel life sciences company NBE-Therapeutics for €1.18 billion. NBE-Therapeutics specializes in...
Noema Pharma raises 54 million Swiss francs
The Basel-based pharmaceutical company Noema Pharma has raised a total of 54 million Swiss francs as part of a Series...
Meteoblue constantly presents new developments
The meteoblue weather service based in Basel has developed a weather map widget that can be embedded in any website....
Lonza manufactures coronavirus vaccine for Moderna
Lonza plans to start production of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine in Switzerland before the end of the year. Moderna published the...
Synendos raises 20 million Swiss francs
Synendos Therapeutics has concluded a Series A financing round, raising 20 million Swiss francs. The Basel biotech will use the...
Both Basel cantons are first class borrowers
Standard & Poor’s has awarded the canton of Basel-City its top rating of AAA. The rating agency anticipates that Basel...
ChemAxon establishes subsidiary in Basel
ChemAxon develops software for application in the chemicals and biopharma industries. Now, the Hungarian company has established a subsidiary in...
DSM strengthens the Basel Area life sciences cluster
The global nutrition and health corporation Royal DSM is establishing a new innovation center at the headquarters of Nutritional Products...
Canton of Jura looking towards robotics
The canton of Jura has for quite some time been a hub for the precision industry. Now, however, companies such...
Novartis agrees cooperation to fight Covid-19
A collaboration between Molecular Partners and Novartis has been announced. Molecular Partners will be responsible for the Phase 1 trials...
VectivBio secures investments totaling 110 million dollars
The Basel-based biotechnology firm VectivBio has received a capital injection of 110 million US dollars from both new and existing...
Polyphor receives up to 18 million dollars for development of antibiotics
The Allschwil-based company Polyphor has received a second funding award from the global consortium CARB-X to combat antimicrobial resistance. Polyphor...
Matériaux Sabag printing concrete elements
The Jura-based company Matériaux Sabag is now using a 3D printing solution to produce its concrete elements. This approach allows...
Monte Rosa Therapeutics banks 96 million US dollars
The Basel-based biotechnology firm Monte Rosa Therapeutics has raised a total of 96 million US dollars after closing a successful...
Roche launches new coronavirus antibody test
Roche is launching on the market a new antibody test to determine coronavirus infections. This should help with the development...
Investors see great potential in Polyneuron
The Basel-based company Polyneuron Pharmaceuticals extended its Series A funding round and has now raised a total of 36.5 million...
Lonza set to manufacture coronavirus drug for Humanigen
The Basel-based pharmaceutical supplier Lonza is supporting the US firm Humanigen in the development of a potential coronavirus therapeutic. Lonza...
Roche testing for coronavirus and flu simultaneously
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the Basel-based life sciences company Roche authorization to use a test that...
Hengrui Medicine sets up clinical research and development in Basel
The Chinese life sciences company Hengrui Medicine is establishing a Swiss subsidiary in Basel. The European hub for clinical research...
Polyphor awarded exclusive licensing agreement for China
The Basel Area-based company Polyphor has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Fosun Pharma in China. Fosun Pharma will lead...
New label guarantees that data remains in Switzerland
With the new “swiss hosting” label, the Basel-based company swiss made software Gmbh is guaranteeing that data will not be...
Coworking in the Basel Area – An Interview with Karin Crisanto
Karin Crisanto recently joined Basel Area Business & Innovation as Head of Innovation Space and Infrastructure. She previously worked for...
Switzerland ranked in second place globally
The chemical and pharmaceutical industry of Switzerland has been ranked number two in the world after the USA in terms...
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area opens site on Novartis Campus
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area has opened a new location at the Novartis Campus. From here, the innovation park’s operator,...
Moderna driving forward production of vaccine from Basel
Moderna is opening a location in Basel and is advancing the production of the coronavirus vaccine from there. The Swiss...
Yokogawa establishes innovation center in Allschwil
The Japanese conglomerate Yokogawa has established a Swiss subsidiary based at the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. Here, the focus...
Basel gains new biotech in Bright Peak
Versant Ventures has made a US$35 million Series A funding commitment to Bright Peak Therapeutics and has now announced the...
Basel is “probably the most productive life sciences location in the world”
Two thirds of the value added attributable to the pharmaceutical industry as a whole in Switzerland is generated in the...
Basel Area cantons publish joint economic report
The cantons of Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt and Jura have just published their first joint Economic Report. The fundamental environment is described...
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area Site Novartis Campus
We are happy to present our latest addition to the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area: Our site on the Novartis...
Syngenta grows strongly and stays true to Basel
Syngenta AG, Adama and Sinochem are to be united under the umbrella of the new Syngenta Group. The group is...
Ricola earns the trust of Switzerland
Ricola has been voted the most trustworthy brand in Switzerland. The manufacturer of herbal candy, which is based in the...
Basel leads the way in Swiss exports
The canton of Basel-Stadt accounts for 26 percent of Swiss exports. The pharma and chemical industries have above all contributed...
Idorsia receives payment of 45 million US dollars
The Allschwil-based pharmaceutical company Idorsia receives a payment of 45 million US dollars as part of an agreement with Neurocrine...
Roche authorized to distribute coronavirus antibody tests
Roche has received Emergency Use Authorization in the USA for an antibody test in connection with the novel coronavirus. The...
Healthtech sector growing rapidly in the Basel Area
The investment and innovation promotion agency Basel Area Business & Innovation, previously known as BaselArea.swiss, can look back on a...
Basel is the most popular Swiss location for headquarters
Basel is valued as a location for company headquarters. In a rating from the fDi Intelligence platform of the Financial...
Support program has roots in Basel
The online program Selfapy supports people suffering from mental health conditions during the coronavirus lockdown. BaselArea.swiss has provided startup help...
Cantons in the Basel Area agree aid measures
Basel/Liestal/Delémont – Because of the coronavirus crisis.the three sponsor cantons of BaselArea.swiss have adopted emergency aid measures in addition to...
Roivant developing treatment for coronavirus patients
The Basel-based pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences wants to develop a special antibody for coronavirus patients. This is intended to help...
Roche Coronavirus test gets FDA approval
The US regulatory authority has authorized a test developed by the Basel-based pharmaceutical company Roche to detect the SARS-CoV 2...
The pharma centers of Basel and India are influencing each other
Basel has long been one of the world’s most important locations within the pharmaceutical industry. But pharma firms are now...
Roche builds “best research center in the world”
The pharmaceutical giant Roche has officially started building its new research center in Basel. Around 1,800 researchers should be able...
FutureHealth conference brings international experts to Basel
The FutureHealth Basel conference brought together experts, startups and those affected by digital healthcare. In addition to exploring the opportunities...
Novartis opens campus up for innovation
Basel-based pharmaceutical Novartis is opening up its campus in Basel to external partners, including Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, which...
Sotio opens office in Basel
The Czech biotech company Sotio has opened an office in the Technologiepark Basel. Sotio Biotech AG will be responsible for...
Basel leads in international tax competition
The canton of Basel-Stadt offers one of the world’s most attractive tax burdens for companies, according to the latest BAK...
Basel is evolving into a pediatrics hub
The Botnar Research Center for Child Health in Basel has started its research activities. The first four projects have now...
BeiGene wins Scrip Award
The pharmaceutical company BeiGene has won a Scrip Award that recognizes contributions across the pharma sector to improving healthcare. BeiGene’s...
Basel areas hold promise for investors
Substantial efforts are underway in Basel to develop new areas and create space for people and companies. The efforts were...
Canton of Basel-Landschaft cuts corporate tax rates
Corporate tax rates in the canton of Basel-Landschaft will be cut from a maximum of 20.7 percent today to 13.45...
Initiative for innovative companies in Basel-Landschaft
A new initiative has been launched to support innovative SMEs and startups in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in an effort...
DayOne Accelerator finalizes participants
BaselArea.swiss manages the DayOne initiative, which is now organizing the second round of the DayOne Accelerator. The participants are Digital...
startup baselland supports company creation
BaselArea.swiss is working with selected organizations and Standortförderung Baselland to support the foundation of companies in the canton of Basel-Landschaft....
Artidis joins world’s largest medical center
The Basel-based startup Artidis is developing a medical device based on nanotechnology to help with cancer diagnoses. The spin-off from...
Jura has plenty of greenfield sites
The canton of Jura has more than 544 hectares of building land available, a study from the Federal Institute of...
Basel startup Nutrix beats 900 startups
The Basel startup Nutrix has won a competition at the Web Summit with its business concept. It has developed a...
Polyphor discovers new class of antibiotics
Researchers at the Allschwil pharmaceutical company Polyphor and the University of Zurich have discovered a novel antibiotics class. It has...
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area opens site in Jura
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area has opened its third location. The park is now represented in Jura alongside its locations...
Investments in Basel start-ups on the rise
Start-ups established in Basel raised more than 200 million euro in investments during the first half of 2019. Basel therefore...
Versameb raises 6.4 million Swiss francs
Basel-based biopharmaceutical Versameb has raised 6.4 million Swiss francs in a Seed C financing round and will put the funds...
Kindoh opens global headquarters in Basel
Kindoh, a daily consumer product brand, is moving its headquarters to Basel. The location promotion organization BaselArea.swiss supported the company’s...
T3 Pharma raises more than 12 million Swiss francs
T3 Pharma, a Basel-based biotech company, has closed its second financing round and raised in excess of 12 million Swiss...
GRID boosts innovative power of Basel region
Work on the construction of the GRID complex for innovation and commerce has begun on the BaseLink site in Allschwil...
Indigo Agriculture opens European headquarters in Basel
Indigo Agriculture is expanding to Europe and has opened headquarters in Basel to this end. The U.S. company offers pioneering...
Basel startup aims to change agriculture sector
Growcer AG is currently building a machine-operated vegetable farm in Basel. Robots sow, water and fertilize the vegetables, which are...
Leading startups benefit from BaselArea.swiss
The top 100 startups of Switzerland have been revealed. In Venturelab’s Top 100, the Basel region performs particularly well in...
BaseLaunch supports Switzerland as an innovation location
Switzerland often receives awards for its innovative strength. Life sciences have generally played a huge part in this acclaim. The...
“We make no compromises in creating the highest potential company”
Versant Ventures has a strong history in building successful companies such as Therachon, Black Diamond or CRISPR Therapeutics. We talked...
Adobe develops new technology in Basel
The US-based company Adobe is developing a technology in Basel that will make it possible to display content on screens...
DayOne gains importance
DayOne, a BaselArea.swiss initiative, is creating a world-leading healthcare innovation hub based on the strengths of the Basel region. A...
Synendos Therapeutics awarded EU funding
Synendos Therapeutics AG with headquarters in Allschwil is benefiting from the financial support for which small and medium-sized enterprises can...
Swiss TPH breaks ground on new headquarters
The Swiss Tropical and Public Health institute (Swiss TPH) has broken ground on the new building for its headquarters in...
Project uptown Basel taking shape
A competence center for Industry 4.0 is being created on the former site of ABB. Private investors have contributed around...
“I am amazed by the level of innovation in the Jura”
The Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area already has two sites, in Allschwil and Basel, and will soon add a third...
BaseLaunch is a world-leading accelerator
Healthcare accelerators recently came under the spotlight of technology platform Technorely. Its list of eight of the leading accelerators features...
BaseLaunch is top European accelerator
Healthcare Accelerator BaseLaunch, which is operated by the location promotion organization BaselArea.swiss, is among the leading accelerators of its kind...
Pfizer acquires Basel-based Therachon
U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer is acquiring Basel biotech Therachon for US$ 340 million. Additional payments of US$ 470 million may...
Switzerland excels with biotech start-ups
According to an article in the journal “Nature”, Switzerland is the European leader with its biotech start-up ecosystem. Based on...
33 recently arrived companies create hundreds of jobs
The efforts of BaselArea.swiss proved extremely successful in 2018. 33 companies – seven more than in the previous year –...
Basel offers the lowest corporate income tax of all major Swiss business centres
The Canton of Basel-Stadt has lowered its tax rates on income, corporate income and capital retroactively to 1 January 2019....
Anaveon raises CHF 35 million
Anaveon, an immuno-oncology biotech, has successfully concluded a Series A financing round led by Syncona, a UK Life Sciences fund,...
“It doesn’t always have to stay the same”
Désirée Mettraux has been the CEO of Creadi since 2016. The Pax spin-off has developed the Simpego online insurance platform....
GETEC acquires Infrapark Baselland
The energy services provider GETEC is acquiring Infrapark Baselland AG and its activities from the chemicals company Clariant. GETEC also...
Van Baerle to benefit from Schweizerhalle location
Next year, chemical company Van Baerle will move from Münchenstein in the canton of Basellandschaft to the Schweizerhalle industrial location....
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Interest from startups in the BaseLaunch healthcare accelerator exceeds expectations
More than 100 projects from Switzerland and abroad competed for a place in the BaselArea.swiss accelerator program for healthcare startups.
Investing in strengths – Swiss leadership in life sciences
How can Switzerland and the Basel region maintain their international leadership role in life sciences? As part of the Biotech...
BaseLaunch wants to bring the best healthcare start-ups to Basel
“If we invest billions in university research, then this remains an abortive effort if we do not make sure at...
Basel impresses with quality of living
Basel is among the top ten cities with the highest quality of living in the world, according to the latest...
Japanese company opens R&D centre in Basel
Idemitsu Kosan is a Japanese petroleum company, but it also develops and manufactures electronic materials. The company is now opening...
“Muttenz is home to the world’s largest plant for the production of 5-HMF from biomass”
Thomas Fischer is Chief Operating Officer with the biotechnology company AVA Biochem in Muttenz.
Axalta Coating Systems opens regional headquarters in the city of Basel
Philadelphia-based company Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings is establishing its European business activities...
BaselArea.swiss welcomes Biopharmaceutical Company Ultragenyx
BaselArea.swiss Economic Promotion is pleased to announce that Ultragenyx, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel products for...
«Many start-ups begin under precarious conditions – that doesn’t have to be»
Basel region. The entrepreneur has a large network of contacts that allows him to establish access not only to investors,...
US authority contributes to the costs for Basilea development
Basel Area-based biopharmaceutical company Basilea will receive initial funding of 29 million US dollars from BARDA for the development of...
BioVersys receives investment of 6 million US dollars from China
The Basel-based company BioVersys will integrate China in the clinical development of its main product BV100. For this, the Guangzhou...
Roche opens new research and development center
Roche has inaugurated a new pharmaceutical research and development center in Basel. The company has invested 1.2 billion Swiss francs...
Biotech companies wing their way to the Basel Area
Basel Area has proven to be the favoured location for many of the world’s biggest, best and newest innovators in...
Five startups from the Basel Area feature in the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award
The 14th edition of the TOP 100 Swiss Startup Award has named the greatest startups in Switzerland. Five startups from...
Basel to stage the Eurovision Song Contest 2025
Basel has emerged victorious in a neck-and-neck race against Geneva: Switzerland’s most important trade fair city will play host to...
Genedata acquired by Danaher
The Basel-based biotechnology company Genedata has been taken over by the Danaher Corporation in the USA. With this takeover, the...
Straumann agrees full takeover of Mininavident
The Basel-based dental provider Straumann has fully acquired Mininavident AG. The startup from Liestal has developed a guidance system for...
Vector8 acquires wefox’s Parisian AI team
Vector8 is buying the Paris-based artificial intelligence team of Germany insurance company wefox. With this, the company based in Basel...
New BIIE research institute established in Basel
The Botnar Institute of Immune Engineering has been founded in Basel. The research location Basel managed to hold off competition...
Bright Peak Therapeutics secures investment of 90 million US dollars
Basel Area and San Diego-based Bright Peak Therapeutics has closed a Series C financing round, securing investment of 90 million...
Syngenta seeks collaborations in the field of gene technology
The Basel-based agricultural company Syngenta is seeking to grant the international research community access to some of its gene and...
SixPeaks Bio debuts with financing of 110 million US dollars
The Basel-based biotech company SixPeaks Bio has secured an investment of 30 million dollars from Versant Ventures and has agreed...
Allegria Therapeutics raises 3.5 million dollars in seed financing round
Allegria Therapeutics has received seed funding of 3.5 million dollars from the founding investor Forty51 Ventures. The Basel-based biotech startup...
BioVersys extends Series C financing round to 44.9 million Swiss francs
Basel-based BioVersys is bolstering its partnership with GSK in order to accelerate the development of alpibectir for the treatment of...
Basel research paves way for new drugs
Chemists at the University of Basel have developed a new synthesis approach to artificially create terpenes. These contain substances that...
Johnson & Johnson opens Innovation Hub in Allschwil
Johnson & Johnson has opened its first J&J Innovation Hub on the European mainland at the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel...
BGG from China opens headquarters in Basel
BGG is establishing new global headquarters in Basel, from which it plans to grow in Europe and the USA. The...
First BOOM Summit was a success
The organizers of the BOOM Summit are happy with the first edition. In total, 500 experts exchanged their knowledge and...
Indivi joins forces with Biogen
Indivi and Biogen are cooperating on the development of digital biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease. To this end, the US biotech...
Nouscom receives additional funding for cancer vaccines
Nouscom has received an investment totalling 7 million euros from the Italian venture capital firm Angelini Ventures. The Basel-based biotech...
Scaling the digital mountain
Hub locations are as much a feature in healthcare as for life sciences in general. In this article, originally published...
Basel Area attracts companies from 17 different countries
Basel Area Business & Innovation supported a total of 34 companies in their efforts to establish a business presence in...
Chemspeed acquired by Bruker
Chemspeed Technologies is to be integrated in Bruker, the US manufacturer of instruments used in life sciences research. The specialist...
Syngenta seeks partners for six innovative projects
Agrochemical giant Syngenta has used its Shoots by Syngenta platform to announce six research projects for which it is seeking...
Idorsia enters collaboration with Viatris
The biotech company Idorsia from the canton of Basel-Landschaft and the North American pharmaceutical company Viatris are collaborating on the...
Healthtech and the digital healthcare revolution
From drug discovery to the management of chronic illnesses, how are digital solutions transforming the healthcare industry? This article, originally...
Basel Area records impressive startup year 2023
In 2023, a total of 30 startups from the Basel Area received fresh capital from investors. Between them, they banked...
Cheplapharm has major plans for the Basel Area
Cheplapharm Switzerland will seek to drive the growth of the group, and execute global acquisitions of established medicines from large...
Basel-Stadt expands innovation promotion
The canton of Basel-Stadt is increasing its innovation funding to a total of 67 million Swiss francs by 2030. Existing...
Noor Biotech opts to establish location in Basel
Noor Biotech has established a presence in Basel. The startup, which is managed by its Saudi Arabian co-founder Nuha Alakhmimi,...
UPM Biomedicals chooses the Basel Area as European bridgehead
UPM Biomedicals is opening a lab on the Main Campus of Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. The Finnish company specializes...
Macrogen establishes foothold in Basel
Macrogen Europe is set to move into the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area at Novartis Campus. As with its parent...
Scailyte and Artbio making headlines in Basel
The biotech company Scailyte has raised 8 million US dollars as part of a Series A financing round. For its...
Five startups advance to final phase of DayOne Health 4.0
Five international healthtech startups – including the Bern-based startup machineMD – have made it to the final phase of DayOne...
Four new buildings for Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area
The Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area in Allschwil in the canton of Basel-Landschaft is set to be expanded from 50,000...
Boehringer Ingelheim acquires T3 Pharma
Boehringer Ingelheim has acquired T3 Pharma, which is based in the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, for an amount of...
Roche investing an additional 1.2 billion Swiss francs in Basel
Roche will be putting an additional 1.2 billion Swiss francs towards the renovation of its site in Basel. This investment...
Nouscom secures 67.5 million euros in financing
Biotech company Nouscom has raised 67.5 million euros in a series C financing round. The Basel-based firm intends to use...
How open innovation in healthtech hubs is fueling the rise of digital healthcare
How the ever-increasing uptake of digital solutions is enhancing patient engagement, increasing access to care and lowering the cost of...
How to access the U.S. market with your medical device
In one of our latest Venture Mentoring events by Basel Are Business & Innovation, we invited Nila-Pia Rähle to speak...
Paradigm shift in pain management
Pain is a crucial sensation for survival, but it can also drive us to depression and long-term suffering if not...
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BOOM Summit in Basel accelerates health technology
The BOOM Summit at Messe Basel in April 2024 will be a completely new kind of healthcare conference. The first...
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Investors stump up 3.7 million Swiss francs in Onena Medicines
Onena Medicines has secured an investment of 3.7 million Swiss francs. The portfolio company of the biotech startup incubator BaseLaunch...
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CSL joins Basel Area biotech cluster
The research and development department of the globally active Australian biotech company CSL has moved into a new office in...
Palto Therapeutics receives 150,000 Swiss francs from Venture Kick
Allschwil-based Palto Therapeutics has won the third stage of the Venture Kick promotional funding program. As such, the company now...
Beyond the cliché: the real advantages of business in Switzerland
Meet our Chief Representative USA: with over 30 years in the biotech industry, Kirsten Detrick brings invaluable expertise for companies...
Roche uses artificial intelligence for cancer diagnosis
Roche is teaming up with Ibex Medical Analytics and Amazon Web Services in the field of artificial intelligence. The goal...
Cimeio collaborating with the University of Pennsylvania
The Basel-based startup Cimeio has been offered an exceptional opportunity for a preclinical research collaboration with the University of Pennsylvania,...
biGENIUS receives 2 million euros for new cloud product
Software company biGENIUS, based in the Basel Area, has secured financing of 2 million euros. This funding was granted following...
Opterion Health secures investment of 6.5 million Swiss francs
Opterion Health has raised a total of 6.5 million Swiss francs as part of a financing round. The company, which...
TOLREMO receives 39 million US dollars in investments
TOLREMO Therapeutics has concluded a series A funding round with 39 million US dollars. The biotech company based in Basel...
Mazars opens tenth Swiss office in Basel
Mazars is now also present in Basel with a subsidiary as of September 1. This is the tenth Swiss location...
Medtech in Switzerland – bringing together traditional skills and hightech industry
How the intersection of traditional and novel skillsets in the Jura area is propelling Switzerland into a new era of...
Fondation Botnar supporting further research into pediatric health
The Basel-based Botnar Research Centre for Child Health has received a further donation of 50 million Swiss francs from the...
Forty51 Ventures invests to found Mysthera Therapeutics
Mysthera Therapeutics AG has been founded in Basel. Forty51 Ventures, a venture capital firm also based in Basel, has provided...
Spexis receives capital commitment of 2.5 million US dollars
Investors have made an additional capital commitment to Spexis AG, based in the Basel Area. With an extra 2.5 million...
Worg secures financing of 130 million Swiss francs
The Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Worg Pharma, whose European headquarters are located in the Basel Area, has secured gross proceeds equivalent...
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Tenpoint aims to make vision loss reversible
The startup Tenpoint Therapeutics has started operations with a funding round of 70 million US dollars. It works to make...
Roche and ETH training the next generation of researchers
Roche, the Basel-based life sciences firm, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) are joining forces to...
Clear Solutions Labs seeks to benefit from the Basel Area
The founders of Clear Solutions Laboratories are putting together a team of experts in the fields of biotechnology, pharmaceutical science...
QuantumBasel offers access to the world’s most powerful quantum computers
QuantumBasel has consolidated its status as a neutral quantum hub with access to the world’s best quantum computers through a...
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How digital transformation is driving pharmaceutical innovation in Basel
How are digital innovations such as artificial intelligence and machine learning helping to improve drug research and development? Digital technologies...
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Medical informatics is shaping Switzerland’s digital future
Switzerland is at the forefront of embracing medical informatics, and innovative biotech hubs – such as the Basel Area –...
Ground-breaking oncology being developed in the Basel Area
The Basel Area – covering northwestern Switzerland – has seen tremendous growth in recent years, and has become a true...
Genedata expanding its user network
The Japanese biopharmaceutical firm Ajinomoto is to use the Genedata solution to accelerate its drug development processes at its site...
How Moderna is growing in Switzerland
The number one rule in real estate is “Location, Location, Location.” The global biotech company Moderna found its location in...
Sandoz decides on Basel for headquarters
Sandoz AG will continue to have its headquarters in Basel as an independent company. The separation from Novartis is expected...
VectivBio sold for approximately 1 billion dollars
The takeover of VectivBio is now being finalized: the Boston-based firm Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, which specializes in gastrointestinal medicine, has agreed...
University of Basel and RocketVax present new Covid vaccine
Researchers from the University of Basel have developed a new concept for a Covid vaccine in collaboration with the biotech...
Rami Swiss and Elbit Systems now manufacturing in Jura
The newly established company Rami Swiss has inaugurated a new production facility in Courtételle in the canton of Jura together...
Basel to become Europe’s Silicon Valley of biotech
Silicon Valley is synonymous with technology and innovation, and home to dozens of Fortune 1000 companies and thousands of startups....
Roche and Novartis among global leaders for research spending
In 2022, Roche invested 16 billion euros in research and development overall. This puts the Basel-based life sciences firm in...
Roche to found Institute for Human Biology
Roche has announced that it will be establishing the Institute of Human Biology in Basel. Up to 250 employees will...
Provectis establishes presence in Basel
Provectis Healthcare has chosen Basel as the location for its headquarters. The company is striving to become the partner of...
Alentis raises 105 million US dollars
Alentis Therapeutics has received 105 million US dollars in a series C funding round. It will invest the funds in...
Spirecut establishes presence in the Basel Area
Spirecut has opted to establish its new headquarters in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. The company is now operating out of...
Evolva launches new line for manufacturers of personal care products
Evolva, a manufacturer of active ingredients based in Reinach in the canton of Basel-Landschaft, will be presenting its new product...
Record figure for startups in the Basel Area
Basel Area Business & Innovation has supported a record number of 96 company startups in 2022. The number of settlements...
Noema Pharma raises 103 million Swiss francs from investors
Noema Pharma has raised a total of 103 million Swiss francs as part of an oversubscribed Series B financing round....
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Why CDMO companies choose the Basel Area as their location
This article highlights the increasingly important issue of location for contract development and manufacturing organizations (CDMOs), and discusses how elements...
No one too small to make a difference
This article introduces the Swiss Triple Impact and summarizes the keynote held by Martin Studer, the 25th of August at...
Basel still the most attractive small city for business in Europe
As with last year, Basel once again features among the most attractive locations in Europe for investments. It was ranked...
Cities and regions can drive demand for sustainable business models
This article introduces the Solar Impulse Foundation and summarizes the keynote held by Robin Henri on the 25th of August...
Ariceum Therapeutics establishes subsidiary in Basel
The German life sciences firm Ariceum Therapeutics has established a subsidiary in Basel. This company has received support from Basel...
RocketVax raises fresh capital
The Basel-based biotech startup RocketVax has successfully closed another financing round. This additional funding will primarily be used to further...
Find the perfect business match
Businesses need partners to grow and become successful. Valentina Francia helps companies find suitable partners in the Basel Area: She...
Clinerion is now part of Citeline
Clinerion has been integrated into New York-based company Citeline. Clinerion plans to expand its portfolio with Citeline’s complementary opportunities with...
KUORI developing biodegradable plastics
The Basel-based cleantech company KUORI GmbH develops alternative materials for conventional plastics. The aim is to reduce the accumulation of...
Cell and gene therapies gain momentum in Basel
Companies specializing in the research and development of innovative cell and gene therapies continue to spring up all around the...
Digital twins and data visualization in Industry 4.0
We invited five speakers to talk about digital twins, data visualization and the Building Information Modeling (BIM) used in the...
BLKB expanding support for startups
BLKB offers particularly promising SMEs and startups financial support within the framework of the “100 fürs Baselbiet” program. These companies...
Cyber security for the digitized and networked world
No company is safe from cybercriminals. Everyone has heard of hacker attacks, but few companies are really prepared.
Combatting the rise of antimicrobial resistance
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing global threat that, without intervention, could lead to as many as 10 million deaths annually...
AMR Action Fund invests in new antibiotics developed by BioVersys
The AMR Action Fund has made its first European investment in BioVersys, which is headquartered at Tech Park Basel. The...
Investors give Resistell 8.5 million Swiss francs
Resistell AG has secured 8.5 million Swiss francs in the first part of its series B funding round. The biotechnology...
BSI integrating AI from Parashift in banking software
Parashift, the specialist in the area of smart document processing on the basis of Artificial Intelligence (AI), has entered into...
Europe’s booming biotech powerhouse is called Basel
The first places to spring to mind when most people think of “life sciences hubs” are long-established, high-profile geographical locations...
UptownBasel joins IBM Quantum Network
UptownBasel is partnering with IBM. The emerging competence center for Industry 4.0 will provide its partners with the IBM Quantum...
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South Korean pharma firms show interest in the Basel Area
Several South Korean firms from the life sciences industry, including three pharmaceutical multinationals, have visited the Basel Area on fact-finding...
Gamma Technologies acquires ProFEMAG portfolio
The Basel-based firm ProFEMAG AG has sold its FEMAG software for electrical machine applications to Gamma Technologies. The company based...
Databaum establishes headquarters in Basel
Databaum is establishing its headquarters in Basel and plans to grow from its location there. The startup provides the agricultural...
Clinerion launches patient information platform
Basel-based Clinerion is introducing its machine learning platform. It comprises a global network of hospitals and enables researchers to recognize...
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New innovation campus opens in the Basel Area
The Main Campus of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area was officially opened on October 29. In his speech, Federal...
Sumitovant acquires all shares in Myovant
Sumitovant is in the process of making Basel-based Myovant Sciences a wholly owned subsidiary by acquiring a 100 percent shareholding...
VectivBio raises 125 million US dollars in stock sale
VectivBio has announced the closing of the subscription offer for 16,700,000 ordinary shares. The Basel-based biotechnology firm has generated gross...
KetoSwiss secures capital increase of 4 million dollars
KetoSwiss has banked a total of 4 million US dollars from investors. The Basel-based startup develops products to alleviate neurological...
“The Basel Area is steaming ahead of the international competition”
Switzerland’s research-based pharmaceutical companies are a success story, says René P. Buholzer. The Managing Director of Interpharma explains why certain...
Escientia Switzerland becomes Primopus
The Indian company Deccan Fine Chemicals is acquiring Escientia Switzerland and renaming it as Primopus AG. The new owner announces...
Novartis investing 100 million Swiss francs in new biologics center
The pharmaceutical company Novartis is investing a sum of 100 million Swiss francs in a new competence center for biologics...
Official opening of the competence center uptownBasel
uptownBasel celebrated its official opening. Technology companies such as Bouygues and Vinci Energies are already occupying the first building of...
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Eight startups from Basel Area feature in TOP 100 Swiss Startups
Among the most promising startups in Switzerland eight companies from Basel Area's startup ecosystem have been named. They are some...
Roche opens tallest building in Switzerland
Roche has inaugurated a new office building with 3,200 positions in Basel. Standing 205 meters high, Building 2 is the...
DayOne Tech supports three medtech startups
DayOne, the healthcare innovation initiative from Basel Area Business & Innovation, has started its medtech accelerator in the canton of...
DelphianLogic opens European headquarters in Basel
DelphianLogic has opted for Basel as the location for its European headquarters. From its new base in Basel, the award-winning...
Versant Ventures establishes Vector BioPharma AG
Vector Biopharma is the latest company to be founded by Ridgeline, a discovery engine from Basel-based venture capitalist Versant Ventures....
BioFi AG newly settles in Basel
BioFi has set up its headquarters in Basel. The company has emerged from Crowley Davis Research, which was established in...
Forty51 closes first fund totaling 43 million US dollars
A new Basel-based venture fund, Forty51 Ventures I, has raised a total of 43 million US dollars following a first...
Basel life sciences sector is the most productive in the world
No other life sciences hub in the world is growing as rapidly as the Basel Region, which recorded growth of...
AstraZeneca and docdok.health improving asthma control
AstraZeneca and the Basel-based startup docdok.health are jointly developing a new digital solution to treat chronic respiratory diseases. Studies at...
Basel Area achieves milestone with settling of LifeMine
Life sciences company LifeMine Therapeutics from the USA has established its European headquarters in the Basel Area. With this, Basel...
Space Pharmaceuticals establishes presence in Basel
Space Pharmaceuticals AG is strengthening the life sciences cluster in the Basel Area. At its research lab, the cheminformatics company...
What’s fueling Basel Area’s advanced manufacturing ecosystem
The Covid-19 pandemic continues to have an unmistakable effect on the pharmaceutical industry and its manufacturing processes. Learn more about...
NextImmune to benefit from Venture Kick financing
The startup accelerator Venture Kick is supporting NextImmune with financing in the amount of 150,000 Swiss francs. The spin-off from...
OECD impressed by the canton of Jura’s innovation system
The OECD has examined the innovation systems in place in rural areas of its member states, including the canton of...
ti&m opens branch in Basel
ti&m now has an office in Basel. With this action, the company specializing in digitization, security and innovation projects is...
What can artificial intelligence do for health?
What’s the state of artificial intelligence in healthcare? It's potential has been recognized by the medtech industry, health systems, pharmaceutical...
Economic promotion agency creates 55 new jobs in Jura
The economic promotion agency of the canton of Jura supported a total of 26 companies in founding, establishing a presence...
Investors top up capital of BioVersys
BioVersys has raised 24.2 million Swiss francs in a series C funding round. The Basel-based pharmaceutical company plans to use...
Swiss made software label awarded to 1000th company
Swiss made software GmbH has now awarded its seal of quality to its 1,000th member firm. The “swiss made software”...
EvokAI to acquire Advancience
EvokAI Creative Labs Inc. has agreed a deal to acquire Advancience. The diagnosis profiles enhanced by Artificial Intelligence (AI) developed...
BeiGene opens European headquarters in Basel
BeiGene has opened its new European headquarters in Basel. The global biotech specializing in innovative cancer treatments intends to build...
Engimmune Therapeutics banks 15.5 million Swiss francs
Engimmune Therapeutics will now be in a position to drive forward its innovative platforms for the development of T-cell therapies...
Bionter receives 3 million US dollars in investments
Bionter AG has received 3 million US dollars in a seed funding round. These funds will enable Bionter to bring...
Resistell seeking to further develop test to combat antibiotic resistance
The startup Resistell has launched a study looking into the applicability of a test against antibiotic resistances that is being...
Biotech startup Cimeio receives 46 million Swiss francs for cell therapy
Cimeio Therapeutics from Basel has received initial financing amounting to 46 million Swiss francs from Versant Ventures. The startup is...
Superlab Suisse heading to Basel
Superlab Suisse is bringing its Lab-as-a-Service business concept to Basel. The company will open a new location with lab and...
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Swiss TPH opens new building on the site of BaseLink
The Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute has officially opened its multifunctional new building at the Basel Area’s new life...
World first in the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area
Eldico Scientific has opened the world’s first experience center for electron diffractometry in the site Allschwil of the Switzerland Innovation...
DayOne healthtech accelerator launches new offering
DayOne shares the launch of DayOne Accelerator 2.0, marking a transition to three verticals that will enable the growth of...
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Basel Area sets new record for new company settlements
For Basel Area Business & Innovation, 2021 was a record year. Last year, the investment and innovation promotion agency supported...
Ginkgo Bioworks to acquire Basel-based firm FGen AG
The US biotechnology firm Ginkgo Bioworks has agreed a takeover deal for the startup FGen. The Basel-based firm develops technologies...
Antimicrobial Resistance is a threat – and the Basel Area is part of the solution
Antimicrobial Resistance is a global threat, but Switzerland is part of the solution. Learn more about the Basel Area ecosystem...
ACROBiosystems establishes presence in the Basel Area
ACROBiosystems headquartered in Beijing has selected the Basel Area to expand its research and commercial activities in Europe.
Basel among the most future-oriented cities in Europe
fDi Intelligence has investigated the most important tech cities across Europe. Basel secured top spot in the category of small...
AMR Action Fund opens European office in Basel
The AMR Action Fund has moved into its new European office in Basel. The venture fund is the largest public-private...
InOpSys heading to Basel
The Belgian company InOpSys is opening a subsidiary in Basel. The supplier of water purification solutions intends to press on...
Basel startups impress investors
According to the latest Swiss Venture Capital Report, investments in Swiss startups increased by 44 percent last year. As a...
Basel Area – exactly the right chemistry for South Korean pharma companies
KPBMA and Basel Area Business & Innovation establish tailored collaboration to support Korean biopharmaceutical companies to enter the European market
Basel Area supporting three digital health startups
Basel Area Business & Innovation will be offering intensive support to the three winners of its DayOne Digital Health Accelerator...
Gray establishes presence in Basel
The North American fully integrated specialty service provider Gray has established a subsidiary in Basel. The key factors in favor...
Artificial Intelligence able to identify potentially life-saving antibiotics
A computer algorithm has identified antibiotics that that are still effective against infections in which multi-resistant germs are present. University...
Investors give Anaveon 110 million Swiss francs
Anaveon has received investment commitments amounting to 110 million Swiss francs in a Serie B funding round. The Basel-based biopharmaceutical...
Basel alliance seeks to combat antibiotic resistance
The Spearhead alliance has been founded in Basel with the aim of combating the silent pandemic of antimicrobial resistance. By...
Kinarus and Noorik awarded federal grants
The Basel-based biopharmaceutical companies Kinarus and Noorik have been awarded federal grants for their clinical trials investigating drug candidates to...
Alloy acquires deepCDR and will expand Basel site
Alloy Therapeutics, a biotechnology firm from Boston in the USA, has acquired the Basel-based startup deepCDR Biologics. Alloy labs and...
Basel Healthtech fund successfully closed
The venture capital firm MTIP has announced the successful closing of its FUND II. It is one of the first...
Roche tests able to detect Omicron
The Roche subsidiary TIB Molbiol has developed new coronavirus testing kits that can also detect the new Omicron variant of...
Hemex banks 7.1 million Swiss francs
Hemex has raised a total of 7.1 million Swiss francs as part of a Series C financing round. The company...
EsoCap impresses investors
EsoCap, a biotech company based in Basel, has concluded a successful funding round. The funds from new and existing investors...
Plug and Play settles in the Basel Area
Plug and Play is coming to the canton of Basel-Landschaft. The first founding partner of the innovation promoter from Silicon...
Bachem builds its largest production building
Bachem has laid the foundation stone for its largest production building to date. The company specializing in the manufacture of...
Bottneuro advancing personalized Alzheimer’s therapy
Basel-based startup Bottneuro is working on the development of personalized therapies to treat Alzheimer’s disease in which certain areas of...
Straumann plans to build innovation center in the Basel Area
The Basel-based dental specialist Straumann is planning to construct a new technology and innovation center in Arlesheim in the canton...
“To create the future of health, we need to come together as an ecosystem”
The future of health has already begun – but where does it lead us to? Patricia Gee is director of the...
Ontotext opens new office in the Basel Area
Ontotext, a company based in New York City and the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, has opened a new location at...
The gravitational attraction of the Basel Area – Europe’s leading healthcare hub
Breakthrough advances in digital technology and artificial intelligence are transforming how we manage our health, and helping data-driven life science...
Owkin heads to Basel
The Franco-US startup Owkin is establishing a branch office in Basel. The company develops solutions for the life sciences industry...
Danish AI company settling in the Basel Area
Abzu has settled on the Novartis Campus of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. From there, the Danish deep tech...
«I always wanted to create something from scratch»
Already when he was young, he was driven to create and invent. Today at the age of 33, Gwenael Hannema...
Basel Area becomes the Swiss hotspot for Chinese pharma companies
More and more Chinese pharmaceutical companies are choosing the Basel Area as location for their subsidiary in Switzerland. Among them...
New offering for digital health startups in the Basel Area
Basel Area Business & Innovation is expanding the offering of its DayOne Accelerator – both in terms of content and...
Botanikind settles in Basel
The internationally active Swiss company Botanikind has settled in Basel and established Botanikind AG there. It provides natural ingredients for...
Kinarus secures capital commitment of 57 million Swiss francs
The biopharmaceutical company Kinarus has signed a capital commitment of up to 57 million Swiss francs with the investment group...
Biotech startups from the Basel Area confirm leading position
As part of the Top 100 Swiss Startup Awards 2021, the most promising startups in Switzerland are honored. These also...
T3 Pharma wins Swiss Economic Award
T3 Pharma has won the Swiss Economic Award 2021. Switzerland’s most prestigious young entrepreneur prize is awarded by the Swiss...
Worg selects Basel Area for European headquarters
Worg Pharmaceuticals has opted to establish its European headquarters at the site Allschwil of the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area....
ten23 health settles in Basel
The life sciences cluster Rosental Mitte located in Basel is home to a new, globally active company called ten23 health....
Lumineo installs translucent concrete wall for Vinci
The global construction and energy group Vinci engaged the jurassic Lumineo Group to design a wall made from translucent concrete...
Roivant invests 200 million dollars in Immunovant
The Basel-based Roivant Group has invested a total of 200 million dollars in the US biopharmaceutical company Immunovant. This investment...
Lyfegen collaborating with Johnson & Johnson
The Basel-based startup Lyfegen has developed a platform for value-based healthcare. This should provide improved outcomes for patients and result...
Bottmedical enters the market with innovative braces
The Basel-based startup Bottmedical has developed clear braces made from bio-based polymers. After closing a successful financing round, the company...
TargImmune raises nearly 18 million Swiss francs
The Basel-based biotechnology firm TargImmune has raised 17.7 million Swiss francs as part of a financing round. It now intends...
KetoSwiss launches first product in the USA
The Basel-based biotech startup KetoSwiss develops innovative therapies for neurological disorders. Following a successful capital increase, the company now has...
For Swiss startups, China might be closer than it seems
China wants to strengthen domestic demand and be less dependent on imports. This policy has huge implications for the life...
Basel Area treads unique path
Basel Area is responsible for both location and innovation promotion. This approach, which is unique across Switzerland, is very successful...
Alentis secures 67 million US dollars
The Basel-based biotechnology company Alentis Therapeutics has secured 67 million US dollars in a series B funding round. The funds...
RocketVax secures partners for coronavirus vaccine in Basel
RocketVax has found cooperation partners for the development of its innovative coronavirus vaccine. The University Hospital of Basel, the University...
Bright Peak secures investment of 107 million dollars
Bright Peak has raised a total of 107 million US dollars as part of a financing round. The biotechnology firm...
Scailyte now calls Basel home
The biotechnology firm Scailyte is now installed at the Novartis Campus of Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. Scailyte develops solutions...
BGO Software establishes branch in Basel
The Bulgarian firm BGO Software has now established a presence in Basel after founding BGO Software und Technologie GmbH. The...
Basel is very open to newcomers
Novartis CEO Vas Narasimhan talks about diversity at Novartis and his positive experience of living in Basel. “I’ve found that...
ACM Biosciences receives support for Covid-19 vaccine
Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency, is supporting the Basel-based biotechnology company ACM Biosciences with a grant. This is intended for...
Basilea receives grant for novel antibiotic
The CARB-X initiative is granting a sum of 2.7 million US dollars to the Basel-based pharmaceuticals company Basilea. This will...
Discover the Basel Area as #1 in biotech investment
A total of 700+ life science companies call the Basel Area their home. It has become the premier biotech cluster...
Qnami secures investment of 4 million Swiss francs
Qnami has raised a total of 4 million Swiss francs from investors after successfully closing a Series A financing round....
TÜV NORD CERT opens office in Basel
The certification specialist TÜV NORD CERT has opened its own office in Basel. From here, customers across the whole of...
Typewise presents new smartphone keyboard
The startup Typewise is presenting the third generation of its virtual keyboard for smartphones. Typewise 3.0 uses a new patented...
Basel Area starts new i4Challenge
The next round of the i4Challenge support program is getting underway. With this, Basel Area Business & Innovation is striving...
Basel Area shapes future health innovations
A success factor for the Basel Area has been its steady transformation. From chemicals through the pharmaceutical industry to the...
Biggest successes in 2020 for biotechs in the Basel Area
Biotech companies in the Basel Area played a key role in the sector’s record performance in 2020. The latest Swiss...
New innovation campus to be named Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area Main Campus
A new innovation campus is currently under construction in Allschwil. This will be known as Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area...
Synendos Therapeutics expands financing to 24 million Swiss francs
Ysios Capital joins the existing consortium of European investors to expand the Series A financing for Synendos Therapeutics. The Allschwil-based...
Innosuisse funding new RocketVax coronavirus vaccine
Leading Swiss experts in immunology and virology have joined forces in the Basel-based startup RocketVax with the aim of developing...
MTIP using new fund to invest in innovative companies
The Basel-based firm MTIP AG specializes in investments in HealthTech companies. A total of 130 million euros has already been...
Basel Area records successful 2020
Basel Area Business & Innovation was able to newly settle a total of 27 companies in the Basel Area in...
BetterDoc opts for Basel
The online medical service BetterDoc has selected Basel as its Swiss location. Together with the health insurance firm Assura, it...
Kybora settles its European headquarters in Basel
The American consultancy Kybora, which operates within the life sciences industry, has established its European headquarters in Basel. Kybora GmbH...
Escientia establishes subsidiary in the Basel Area
The U.S. company Escientia Life Sciences Group has established a subsidiary in the canton of Basel-Landschaft. Escientia Switzerland will offer...
MyCamper is a European growth champion
The Financial Times has included the Basel-based firm MyCamper in its list of the 1,000 fastest-growing startups in Europe. MyCamper...
BioVersys receives funding in the fight against tuberculosis
The Basel-based pharma company BioVersys has received 2.7 million euros in funding alongside two partners. This financing serves to help...
Biosynex takes up residence in Delémont
The French company Biosynex develops analytical, diagnostic and prophylactic medical devices. Its portfolio includes a test for Covid-19. It has...
Novartis Campus wird weiter geöffnet
Der Neubau des Pavillons auf dem Novartis Campus in Basel soll zum 25-Jahr-Jubiläum im Herbst fertig sein. Der Campus soll...
Novartis Campus opening further
Novartis' 25-year anniversary also marks the next step in the ongoing opening of the campus. The Switzerland Innovation Park Basel...
Hemex attracts Swiss investors
A group of experienced Swiss entrepreneurs and private investors have participated in a significantly oversubscribed financing round for Hemex. The...
Rhizen drug secures approval in the USA
The United States Food and Drug Administration has granted accelerated approval for the drug Umbralisib. Basel biotech Rhizen has discovered...
Novaremed secures US$50 million
Basel biotech Novaremed is receiving US$50 million through an agreement with an investment group. Novaremed will use this financing to...
Axtria driving growth from Basel
The US firm Axtria has established a new office in Basel. The company offers services for the life sciences industry...
Technologiepark Basel celebrates its role as a driver of innovation
The Technologiepark Basel will be ten years old in 2021. Over the past decade, it has supported many startups and...
Basel Area has ever more to offer investors
The canton of Basel-Stadt has displayed the most striking performance in the Swiss Venture Capital Report. Last year, more than...
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...
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...
Evolva brings natural sugar blocker to market
The biotech company Evolva is introducing L-arabinose to the market. This product is a natural sugar blocker and can be...
Holmusk opens new office in Basel
Holmusk has opened an office in Basel. The company from Singapore develops digital therapies on the basis of data analysis....
Zifo RnD Solutions coming to Basel
Zifo RnD Solutions, a global provider of IT solutions for research-based organizations, opens its latest subsidiary in Basel. With Zifo...
«We will show the new product at the Olympic Games 2021 in Tokyo»
The new Basel Area Business & Innovation Podcast offers exciting conversations with interesting interview partners. The first guest is surgeon...
Patients stand to benefit from innovative tech project
The investment and innovation promotion agency Basel Area Business & Innovation is joining forces with several partners to realize a...
Boehringer Ingelheim acquires Basel’s NBE-Therapeutics
German pharma group Boehringer Ingelheim is to acquire the Basel life sciences company NBE-Therapeutics for €1.18 billion. NBE-Therapeutics specializes in...
Noema Pharma raises 54 million Swiss francs
The Basel-based pharmaceutical company Noema Pharma has raised a total of 54 million Swiss francs as part of a Series...
Meteoblue constantly presents new developments
The meteoblue weather service based in Basel has developed a weather map widget that can be embedded in any website....
Lonza manufactures coronavirus vaccine for Moderna
Lonza plans to start production of Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine in Switzerland before the end of the year. Moderna published the...
Synendos raises 20 million Swiss francs
Synendos Therapeutics has concluded a Series A financing round, raising 20 million Swiss francs. The Basel biotech will use the...
Both Basel cantons are first class borrowers
Standard & Poor’s has awarded the canton of Basel-City its top rating of AAA. The rating agency anticipates that Basel...
ChemAxon establishes subsidiary in Basel
ChemAxon develops software for application in the chemicals and biopharma industries. Now, the Hungarian company has established a subsidiary in...
DSM strengthens the Basel Area life sciences cluster
The global nutrition and health corporation Royal DSM is establishing a new innovation center at the headquarters of Nutritional Products...
Canton of Jura looking towards robotics
The canton of Jura has for quite some time been a hub for the precision industry. Now, however, companies such...
Novartis agrees cooperation to fight Covid-19
A collaboration between Molecular Partners and Novartis has been announced. Molecular Partners will be responsible for the Phase 1 trials...
VectivBio secures investments totaling 110 million dollars
The Basel-based biotechnology firm VectivBio has received a capital injection of 110 million US dollars from both new and existing...
Polyphor receives up to 18 million dollars for development of antibiotics
The Allschwil-based company Polyphor has received a second funding award from the global consortium CARB-X to combat antimicrobial resistance. Polyphor...
Matériaux Sabag printing concrete elements
The Jura-based company Matériaux Sabag is now using a 3D printing solution to produce its concrete elements. This approach allows...
Monte Rosa Therapeutics banks 96 million US dollars
The Basel-based biotechnology firm Monte Rosa Therapeutics has raised a total of 96 million US dollars after closing a successful...
Roche launches new coronavirus antibody test
Roche is launching on the market a new antibody test to determine coronavirus infections. This should help with the development...
Investors see great potential in Polyneuron
The Basel-based company Polyneuron Pharmaceuticals extended its Series A funding round and has now raised a total of 36.5 million...
Lonza set to manufacture coronavirus drug for Humanigen
The Basel-based pharmaceutical supplier Lonza is supporting the US firm Humanigen in the development of a potential coronavirus therapeutic. Lonza...
Roche testing for coronavirus and flu simultaneously
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has given the Basel-based life sciences company Roche authorization to use a test that...
Hengrui Medicine sets up clinical research and development in Basel
The Chinese life sciences company Hengrui Medicine is establishing a Swiss subsidiary in Basel. The European hub for clinical research...
Polyphor awarded exclusive licensing agreement for China
The Basel Area-based company Polyphor has signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Fosun Pharma in China. Fosun Pharma will lead...
New label guarantees that data remains in Switzerland
With the new “swiss hosting” label, the Basel-based company swiss made software Gmbh is guaranteeing that data will not be...
Coworking in the Basel Area – An Interview with Karin Crisanto
Karin Crisanto recently joined Basel Area Business & Innovation as Head of Innovation Space and Infrastructure. She previously worked for...
Switzerland ranked in second place globally
The chemical and pharmaceutical industry of Switzerland has been ranked number two in the world after the USA in terms...
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area opens site on Novartis Campus
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area has opened a new location at the Novartis Campus. From here, the innovation park’s operator,...
Moderna driving forward production of vaccine from Basel
Moderna is opening a location in Basel and is advancing the production of the coronavirus vaccine from there. The Swiss...
Yokogawa establishes innovation center in Allschwil
The Japanese conglomerate Yokogawa has established a Swiss subsidiary based at the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area. Here, the focus...
Basel gains new biotech in Bright Peak
Versant Ventures has made a US$35 million Series A funding commitment to Bright Peak Therapeutics and has now announced the...
Basel is “probably the most productive life sciences location in the world”
Two thirds of the value added attributable to the pharmaceutical industry as a whole in Switzerland is generated in the...
Basel Area cantons publish joint economic report
The cantons of Basel-Landschaft, Basel-Stadt and Jura have just published their first joint Economic Report. The fundamental environment is described...
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area Site Novartis Campus
We are happy to present our latest addition to the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area: Our site on the Novartis...
Syngenta grows strongly and stays true to Basel
Syngenta AG, Adama and Sinochem are to be united under the umbrella of the new Syngenta Group. The group is...
Ricola earns the trust of Switzerland
Ricola has been voted the most trustworthy brand in Switzerland. The manufacturer of herbal candy, which is based in the...
Basel leads the way in Swiss exports
The canton of Basel-Stadt accounts for 26 percent of Swiss exports. The pharma and chemical industries have above all contributed...
Idorsia receives payment of 45 million US dollars
The Allschwil-based pharmaceutical company Idorsia receives a payment of 45 million US dollars as part of an agreement with Neurocrine...
Roche authorized to distribute coronavirus antibody tests
Roche has received Emergency Use Authorization in the USA for an antibody test in connection with the novel coronavirus. The...
Healthtech sector growing rapidly in the Basel Area
The investment and innovation promotion agency Basel Area Business & Innovation, previously known as BaselArea.swiss, can look back on a...
Basel is the most popular Swiss location for headquarters
Basel is valued as a location for company headquarters. In a rating from the fDi Intelligence platform of the Financial...
Support program has roots in Basel
The online program Selfapy supports people suffering from mental health conditions during the coronavirus lockdown. BaselArea.swiss has provided startup help...
Cantons in the Basel Area agree aid measures
Basel/Liestal/Delémont – Because of the coronavirus crisis.the three sponsor cantons of BaselArea.swiss have adopted emergency aid measures in addition to...
Roivant developing treatment for coronavirus patients
The Basel-based pharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences wants to develop a special antibody for coronavirus patients. This is intended to help...
Roche Coronavirus test gets FDA approval
The US regulatory authority has authorized a test developed by the Basel-based pharmaceutical company Roche to detect the SARS-CoV 2...
The pharma centers of Basel and India are influencing each other
Basel has long been one of the world’s most important locations within the pharmaceutical industry. But pharma firms are now...
Roche builds “best research center in the world”
The pharmaceutical giant Roche has officially started building its new research center in Basel. Around 1,800 researchers should be able...
FutureHealth conference brings international experts to Basel
The FutureHealth Basel conference brought together experts, startups and those affected by digital healthcare. In addition to exploring the opportunities...
Novartis opens campus up for innovation
Basel-based pharmaceutical Novartis is opening up its campus in Basel to external partners, including Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area, which...
Sotio opens office in Basel
The Czech biotech company Sotio has opened an office in the Technologiepark Basel. Sotio Biotech AG will be responsible for...
Basel leads in international tax competition
The canton of Basel-Stadt offers one of the world’s most attractive tax burdens for companies, according to the latest BAK...
Basel is evolving into a pediatrics hub
The Botnar Research Center for Child Health in Basel has started its research activities. The first four projects have now...
BeiGene wins Scrip Award
The pharmaceutical company BeiGene has won a Scrip Award that recognizes contributions across the pharma sector to improving healthcare. BeiGene’s...
Basel areas hold promise for investors
Substantial efforts are underway in Basel to develop new areas and create space for people and companies. The efforts were...
Canton of Basel-Landschaft cuts corporate tax rates
Corporate tax rates in the canton of Basel-Landschaft will be cut from a maximum of 20.7 percent today to 13.45...
Initiative for innovative companies in Basel-Landschaft
A new initiative has been launched to support innovative SMEs and startups in the canton of Basel-Landschaft in an effort...
DayOne Accelerator finalizes participants
BaselArea.swiss manages the DayOne initiative, which is now organizing the second round of the DayOne Accelerator. The participants are Digital...
startup baselland supports company creation
BaselArea.swiss is working with selected organizations and Standortförderung Baselland to support the foundation of companies in the canton of Basel-Landschaft....
Artidis joins world’s largest medical center
The Basel-based startup Artidis is developing a medical device based on nanotechnology to help with cancer diagnoses. The spin-off from...
Jura has plenty of greenfield sites
The canton of Jura has more than 544 hectares of building land available, a study from the Federal Institute of...
Basel startup Nutrix beats 900 startups
The Basel startup Nutrix has won a competition at the Web Summit with its business concept. It has developed a...
Polyphor discovers new class of antibiotics
Researchers at the Allschwil pharmaceutical company Polyphor and the University of Zurich have discovered a novel antibiotics class. It has...
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area opens site in Jura
Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area has opened its third location. The park is now represented in Jura alongside its locations...
Investments in Basel start-ups on the rise
Start-ups established in Basel raised more than 200 million euro in investments during the first half of 2019. Basel therefore...
Versameb raises 6.4 million Swiss francs
Basel-based biopharmaceutical Versameb has raised 6.4 million Swiss francs in a Seed C financing round and will put the funds...
Kindoh opens global headquarters in Basel
Kindoh, a daily consumer product brand, is moving its headquarters to Basel. The location promotion organization BaselArea.swiss supported the company’s...
T3 Pharma raises more than 12 million Swiss francs
T3 Pharma, a Basel-based biotech company, has closed its second financing round and raised in excess of 12 million Swiss...
GRID boosts innovative power of Basel region
Work on the construction of the GRID complex for innovation and commerce has begun on the BaseLink site in Allschwil...
Indigo Agriculture opens European headquarters in Basel
Indigo Agriculture is expanding to Europe and has opened headquarters in Basel to this end. The U.S. company offers pioneering...
Basel startup aims to change agriculture sector
Growcer AG is currently building a machine-operated vegetable farm in Basel. Robots sow, water and fertilize the vegetables, which are...
Leading startups benefit from BaselArea.swiss
The top 100 startups of Switzerland have been revealed. In Venturelab’s Top 100, the Basel region performs particularly well in...
BaseLaunch supports Switzerland as an innovation location
Switzerland often receives awards for its innovative strength. Life sciences have generally played a huge part in this acclaim. The...
“We make no compromises in creating the highest potential company”
Versant Ventures has a strong history in building successful companies such as Therachon, Black Diamond or CRISPR Therapeutics. We talked...
Adobe develops new technology in Basel
The US-based company Adobe is developing a technology in Basel that will make it possible to display content on screens...
DayOne gains importance
DayOne, a BaselArea.swiss initiative, is creating a world-leading healthcare innovation hub based on the strengths of the Basel region. A...
Synendos Therapeutics awarded EU funding
Synendos Therapeutics AG with headquarters in Allschwil is benefiting from the financial support for which small and medium-sized enterprises can...
Swiss TPH breaks ground on new headquarters
The Swiss Tropical and Public Health institute (Swiss TPH) has broken ground on the new building for its headquarters in...
Project uptown Basel taking shape
A competence center for Industry 4.0 is being created on the former site of ABB. Private investors have contributed around...
“I am amazed by the level of innovation in the Jura”
The Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area already has two sites, in Allschwil and Basel, and will soon add a third...
BaseLaunch is a world-leading accelerator
Healthcare accelerators recently came under the spotlight of technology platform Technorely. Its list of eight of the leading accelerators features...
BaseLaunch is top European accelerator
Healthcare Accelerator BaseLaunch, which is operated by the location promotion organization BaselArea.swiss, is among the leading accelerators of its kind...
Pfizer acquires Basel-based Therachon
U.S. pharmaceutical company Pfizer is acquiring Basel biotech Therachon for US$ 340 million. Additional payments of US$ 470 million may...
Switzerland excels with biotech start-ups
According to an article in the journal “Nature”, Switzerland is the European leader with its biotech start-up ecosystem. Based on...
33 recently arrived companies create hundreds of jobs
The efforts of BaselArea.swiss proved extremely successful in 2018. 33 companies – seven more than in the previous year –...
Basel offers the lowest corporate income tax of all major Swiss business centres
The Canton of Basel-Stadt has lowered its tax rates on income, corporate income and capital retroactively to 1 January 2019....
Anaveon raises CHF 35 million
Anaveon, an immuno-oncology biotech, has successfully concluded a Series A financing round led by Syncona, a UK Life Sciences fund,...
“It doesn’t always have to stay the same”
Désirée Mettraux has been the CEO of Creadi since 2016. The Pax spin-off has developed the Simpego online insurance platform....
GETEC acquires Infrapark Baselland
The energy services provider GETEC is acquiring Infrapark Baselland AG and its activities from the chemicals company Clariant. GETEC also...
Van Baerle to benefit from Schweizerhalle location
Next year, chemical company Van Baerle will move from Münchenstein in the canton of Basellandschaft to the Schweizerhalle industrial location....
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Interest from startups in the BaseLaunch healthcare accelerator exceeds expectations
More than 100 projects from Switzerland and abroad competed for a place in the BaselArea.swiss accelerator program for healthcare startups.
Investing in strengths – Swiss leadership in life sciences
How can Switzerland and the Basel region maintain their international leadership role in life sciences? As part of the Biotech...
BaseLaunch wants to bring the best healthcare start-ups to Basel
“If we invest billions in university research, then this remains an abortive effort if we do not make sure at...
Basel impresses with quality of living
Basel is among the top ten cities with the highest quality of living in the world, according to the latest...
Japanese company opens R&D centre in Basel
Idemitsu Kosan is a Japanese petroleum company, but it also develops and manufactures electronic materials. The company is now opening...
“Muttenz is home to the world’s largest plant for the production of 5-HMF from biomass”
Thomas Fischer is Chief Operating Officer with the biotechnology company AVA Biochem in Muttenz.
Axalta Coating Systems opens regional headquarters in the city of Basel
Philadelphia-based company Axalta Coating Systems, a leading global supplier of liquid and powder coatings is establishing its European business activities...
BaselArea.swiss welcomes Biopharmaceutical Company Ultragenyx
BaselArea.swiss Economic Promotion is pleased to announce that Ultragenyx, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel products for...
«Many start-ups begin under precarious conditions – that doesn’t have to be»
Basel region. The entrepreneur has a large network of contacts that allows him to establish access not only to investors,...
