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

Article written by Hugo Cui & Adele Fanelli   Congratulations to our IMAGINE IF! Local Finalists!   IMAGINE IF! Applications were closed on December 15th 2020 and after careful considerations of the many valuable projects, we introduce here in this article the selected start-ups. These winning teams will soon start the mentorship program and willaaa

Are you a PhD student or Postdoc interested in Innovation, Business and Networking? Do you want to meet new people, expand your professional network and obtain useful skills?  Then we are looking for someone like you! The Innovation Forum is an international grassroots network of scientific entrepreneurs aiming to build a global innovation community toaaa

Emovo Care is an innovative Swiss startup developing robotic hand orthosis for people with hand motor impairments, aiming to bring motor rehabilitation directly to users’ home. Founded in 2019, by two scientists from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), the company is currently led by Dr. Luca Randazzo, CEO. The idea at the core ofaaa

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 Andrea Di Russo and Lorenzo Di Sopra Nagi Bioscience is an EPFL spin-off start-up introducing the first Organism-on-Chip technology. Nagi Bioscience’s technology is based on the use of “Caenorhabditis elegans” (C. elegans) as a biological model organism and, for the first time, it allows its use for in vivo testingaaa

This year edition of Pint of Science, the unique festival that brings free science in local pubs all over the world, involved Switzerland for the first time and Innovation Forum Lausanne joined its team for one night! Last week, researchers from the area pitched their research topics in front of people from Lausanne and surroundingsaaa

On March 7th, at the Forum of Rolex Learning Center at EPFL, the finals of My Thesis in 180 Seconds (MT180) were held. On this occasion, 14 doctoral students of EPFL presented their project thesis in 3 minutes in front of a jury of expert and an audience of 600 people.  Alvaro Charlet, a memberaaa

Congratulations to our Top10 IMAGINE IF! Finalists! Almost a month has passed since we closed the IMAGINE IF! applications. In Switzerland, we received many valuable projects that our expert mentors and judges have been scoring in the past weeks. However, only 10 made it to the finals. The winning teams, already announced last Wednesday duringaaa

The third edition of IMAGINE IF! is coming to town! IMAGINE IF! appears among the 7 Best Biotech Startup Competitions in Europe and it is coming to Lausanne! IMAGINE IF! is our global accelerator program for science ventures. With IMAGINE IF! we want to identify avant-garde ideas emerging from different local ecosystems. Our goal isaaa