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Zurich is one of the leading life science centers in Europe. Academic excellence, high profile education programs and the high quality of life render Zurich not only very competitive in the global market for talent at student and professorial, but increasingly at the entrepreneurial level too.
Innovations most often arise from regional research-driven clusters of investors, major research universities, technology companies, and engineers and scientists willing to try new things. Therefore, Europe’s top regions for healthcare technology have joined forces in the HealthTIES consortium.
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It is now possible for the first time to measure changes in tissue consistency in a living body. With a biomechanical instrument, ETH researchers want to develop new diagnostic techniques in order to recognize pregnancy complications on an early stage.
Members of the Cantonal Council of Zurich were invited by the ETH Executive Board for an exchange of information on location advantages which can be guaranteed by the ETH. At this occasion, the Innovation Park in Dübendorf was also discussed.
Researchers from ETH Zurich founded twenty-two new spin-offs in 2012. The number of company foundations has thus remained constant at around twenty in recent years. Last year, ETH Zurich spin-offs received over ten million Swiss Francs in investments.
The «Spark Award» 2012 by ETH Zurich goes to three ETH scientists for their promising approch to treating diabetes type 2. Their idea was selected by the jury as the best of five innovations of the year 2011.
Precision Health: The Citizen's Revolution
Europe faces new health challenges from its increasingly aging population, and many countries face the equally difficult challenge of building affordable healthcare systems with new technology. To discuss this topic the City of Zurich, in partnership with LSZ Business Network and RollSpeed, is hosting a special event at Swissnex San Francisco on June 4, 2013. For more information click here.
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