Healthtech in the Basel Area
Where life sciences meet technology
The Basel area brings together pharma digital hubs, bioinformatics leaders, hospitals, and AI innovators in one connected supercluster. With direct access to AI, quantum computing and decision-makers in pharma R&D, healthtech ventures can pilot, streamline data, and turn prototypes into real-world products faster.
Harness the supercluster advantage
The Basel Area Life Sciences Supercluster is a leading hub for pharma, biotech, medtech, and healthtech. Home to global giants like Roche and Novartis, as well as innovative companies in AI, data analytics, and quantum, the region enables interdisciplinary collaboration and access to high-performing data-centers. With hospitals, research institutes, and universities nearby, teams can pilot digital biomarkers, scale real-world data platforms, and bring prototypes to market faster, all within a globally connected, innovation-driven ecosystem.
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R&D excellence waiting for you to tap into
Connect with the research and clinical hubs that transform data into decisions and prototypes into pilots. Just minutes apart and tightly linked to industry, these centers streamline the path from concept to clinical evidence.
Deep expertise
AI, machine learning, bioengineering, quantum computing
Supportive ecosystem
Partners, accelerators and VCs
Basel, with its large ecosystem of global leaders in life sciences offers multiple partnership opportunities and allows direct access to expand business into Germany or France.
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International events hosted in the Basel Area
Find your next partners without leaving the supercluster
BioTechX Europe
6-8 October 2025 in Basel
12th HealthTech Investment Forum
7 October 2025 in Basel
health.tech | global summit
3-5 March 2026 in Messe Basel
FutureHealth Basel
9 March 2026 in Basel
Swiss Biotech Day
4-5 May 2026 in Basel
Intelligent Health
Next edition 2026 to be announced
What means the Basel Area for your business
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Talent is the Basel Area’s built-in advantage. You can hire from a deep life sciences workforce and a strong bench in computational biology and computer science, for example from the University of Basel and ETH Zürich’s DBSSE.
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The ecosystem connects directly to live pharma programs. Global HQs run digital initiatives alongside Basel-headquartered bioinformatics and real world data companies, so collaboration routes are clear from day one.
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Our location multiplies your market access. The city’s catchment area spans Switzerland, France and Germany, with most European capitals under two hours away and congress venues on your doorstep.
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The lifestyle here helps you hire and retain people. An international, ideas-rich location ranked highly for quality of life makes relocation and retention simpler.
Your soft-landing package
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1 go-to agency offering free consulting services for your project expansion
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Location search and site visits
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Up to 2 months of free office space at the Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area
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Tax, immigration and project consulting
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Direct introductions to biopharma companies
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Access to ecosystem insights and exclusive events
Let’s talk
Meet with Valentina Francia, Healthtech lead and Manager Ecosystem at Basel Area
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FAQs
The Basel Area concentrates a deep life sciences workforce and hosts leading computational biology and computer science groups at, for example, the University of Basel and ETH Zürich’s DBSSE in Basel.
Within the three canton footprint you will find Roche pRED and the Institute of Human Biology, Novartis Campus, Genedata, Clinerion, QuantumBasel and the AI Innovation Center, and many more centers of excellence.
Yes. QuantumBasel at uptownBasel provides access to quantum expertise and systems via partnerships, designed for industrial use cases in life sciences.
Health.tech, BioTechX Europe, Intelligent Health and Future Health Basel run in the Basel Area on a recurring basis.