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 Anna Lena May. Congratulations to our selected startups for IMAGINE IF! 2022! We are thrilled to announce the cohort of startups participating in our accelerator program IMAGINE IF!.  This year, we have selected six visionary startups in the fields of life sciences and cleantech which convinced us with their innovative business ideasaaa

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

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

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 Veronica Bianchi and Beatrice Volpe   GDPR put the spot light on data protection, which has become an increasingly important issue for both individuals and corporations. The Swiss company Pryv SA offers a data management solution designed to help companies comply with regulatory requirements. Recent events over privacy andaaa

Innovator of the Month Interview by Eleonora Borda and Ece Yıldız   Swiss Motion Technologies (formerly Nextep) is a Swiss start-up based in Lausanne, which develops innovative mobility solutions for amputees. Their tailored liners combine revolutionary manufacturing techniques including scanning the residual limb and implementing digital manufacturing methods to reduce cost and enhance comfort. Moreover,aaa

Are you a scientist with a great idea? Shape it into a business and become a scientist-entrepreneur via our IMAGINE IF! accelerator Innovation Forum invites you to participate in the 4th Edition of its truly international business idea competition and accelerator programme for science ventures.  Description IMAGINE IF! accelerator’s mission is to turn scientists with business ideas into scientists-entrepreneurs. Theaaa

Meet the SPEAKERS for our event in Virtual Reality on April 3rd! Mark Melnykowycz / Idezo / Artist Engineer “Design of VR Experiences” Mark Melnykowycz, Dr. sc. ETH Zurich, works primarily in immersive experience design/development, wearable computing, connected devices, and virtual/augmented reality technologies. As an artist-engineer at Idezo GmbH Mark focuses on combining technology and storytelling with interaction designaaa