THE WORLD’S LEADING HUB FOR SCIENCE-DRIVEN R&D

Find the best location and partners to drive innovation and growth:

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LIFE SCIENCES

Switzerland offers a dense, integrated life sciences ecosystem - spanning R&D to GMP - backed by world-class research institutions and global leaders like Roche, Lonza and Novartis.

Switzerland is one of the few countries with the full life sciences value chain in one place. Core strengths include basic and translational research (ETH Zurich, EPFL, universities), clinical trials in top-ranked hospitals like CHUV Lausanne, Inselspital Bern, and HUG Geneva, and GMP biomanufacturing. Global leaders like Novartis, Roche, Lonza, Merck, Takeda, and UCB operate both R&D and production sites here. The country files the most life sciences patents per capita worldwide. Over 1,000 companies and 40,000 professionals work in biotech, pharma, and medtech. Technologies such as antibody-drug conjugates, live-cell imaging, and organoid systems are developed and scaled within this compact, high-performance ecosystem.

Key Facts

The Switzerland Innovation Parks network connects companies, researchers, and academic partners across Switzerland, providing the expertise, infrastructure, and environment needed to develop and bring new ideas to market.

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