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Orio Therapeutics, finalist of Venture Kick’s 2nd stage!

Orio Therapeutics, a start-up based at Monthey’s BioArk, has won the CHF 40,000 prize alongside KIDEMIS and Rheo, with a project designed to reduce drug use, costs and side-effects, while improving therapeutic outcomes. Proud to be one of the three winners of this second stage of Venture Kick, Orio Therapeutics had to demonstrate the solidity …

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Cancer Research: CHF 1.1 Million for Novochizol SA

EPFL and Novochizol SA to collaborate on designing more efficient immunotherapies, with the support of Innosuisse, the Swiss Innovation Agency. The EPFL Laboratory of Biomaterials for Immunoengineering, headed by Prof. Li Tang, and the BioArk Monthey– hosted startup company Novochizol SA possessing a unique chitosan transformation technology, today announced that Innosuisse will co-fund their collaborative …

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Biotechgate Digital Partnering is back in November

One of the major events for virtual business development and licensing is back, from November 27th to December 1st, 2023. As a partner of the event, BioArk is pleased to offer Valais life science actors a promo code to participate and enhance their business opportunities! The Biotechgate Digital Partnering virtual event is designed to support …

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Debiopharm invests over 30 million francs in innovation in Martigny

Debiopharm is to build a new Innovation building dedicated to research and development at its Valais site in Martigny. The Lausanne-based biopharmaceutical group will invest CHF 30 million in the project…

Valsynthèse’s name originates from the high-energy value of the chemical reactions involved, necessitating a special skill set for manipulation. | © Valsynthèse

Valsynthèse, 40 years of innovation in the canton of Valais

From dynamite to pharmaceuticals, Valsynthèse, the ‘fine chemistry’ business unit of the Société Suisse des Explosifs, celebrates four decades of steering innovative chemical solutions in Valais.

BioArk’s third building in Monthey has just been inaugurated and is already almost full!

BioArk is on a roll! The Monthey-based technology site, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, inaugurated its third building on Friday.

Lonza plan to create 180 jobs in Visp by 2026

The pharmaceutical and biotechnology group Lonza has confirmed the extension of a long-term collaboration with a major global biopharmaceutical partner. The agreement will quadruple current bioconjugation capacity at the Ibex facilities in Visp. The new suites are expected to be operational in 2026 and will generate approximately 180 jobs, according to Lonza.