Interview by Paris Kosti Limula is a Life Science start-up based in Lausanne, Switzerland. The company was established with the mission to help bringing the most personalized cancer treatments to the patients in need, at reasonable cost, wherever they are. To achieve this goal, Limula’s multidisciplinary team provides a unique technology for producing CAR T-cell therapiesaaa

Interview by Franklin Leong 3Brain is a Swiss startup focused on producing state-of-the-art CMOS-based live-cell analysis systems for drug discovery. Their success had led them to improve their technology for over 15 years and they are now in their third generation of device. They aim to change the standard way cell data acquisition is conductedaaa

Diaxxo AG is a spin-off start-up from the Functional Materials Lab at ETH Zurich founded in 2020 by two young entrepreneurs, Dr Michele Gregorini and Philippe Bechtold, aspiring to revolutionize point-of-care diagnostics. They developed an innovative polymerase chain reaction (PCR) device, named peakPCR, based on years of research that is fast, portable yet efficient inaaa

Innovator of the Month Interview by Hugo Cui. Fastree3D is an innovative startup developing fast, three-dimensional imagers operating at the limits set by quantum physics. Launched in 2014 as an EPFL/TU-Delft spin-off, the company, based in Switzerland, is led by Claude Florin, CEO. Fastree3D’s sensors’ low latency, resilience to interferences, and software-defined control enable implementationsaaa

Innovator of the Month Interview by Davide Coda and Gian Franco Piredda.   Novigenix is an innovative Swiss molecular diagnostics company specialising in new generation blood tests for early detection of cancer and precision medicine. Founded in 2013, by a group of three scientists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the company is currentlyaaa

Innovator of the Month Interview by Gianmarco Gatti and Alvaro Charlet.   CompPair is an up and coming Swiss startup led by Amaël Cohades, developing composite materials with healable and recyclable properties. The company was born as a spin-off of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and its mission is to increase the lifetime ofaaa

Innovator of the Month Interview by Eleonora Borda and Claudia Bigoni   Last month, Innovation Forum Lausanne had the chance to sit and have a chat with Nicolas Vachicouras and Ludovic Serex, founder and co-founder of Neurosoft, winners of last edition’s IMAGINE IF! Accelerator and receiver of the Audience Prize along with Swoxid. Neurosoft developsaaa

Swoxid is a Swiss pre-launch start-up led by Endre Horváth, developing filters to sterilize water. Their innovative material based on titanium oxide is activated using sunlight, and requires no electrical power. The filters can be used in remote places, and require little maintenance. The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) spin-off is aiming to haveaaa

  LakeDiamond, a Swiss start-up led by Pascal Gallo, is leading the way for lab-grown ultra-pure diamonds. Their synthetic diamonds have numerous potential technological applications, beyond jewellery. Their custom-developed Micro-Wave Chemical Vapor Deposition reactors grow the highest quality diamond on earth, mono-crystals up to the centimetre in scale. The Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) spin-off is currently undergoingaaa

Innovator of the Month Interview by Alessia Baldo and Martina Genta   QGel is a Swiss start-up based at Lausanne’s Innovation Park, which develops synthetic extracellular matrices (ECM) for the growth of cells outside the body. The ECM is an important material that surrounds cells of the human body, which helps regulate tissue development andaaa