BioBasel - home of the leading life science cluster.

The greater Basel region is the largest life cluster in Europe and ranks in the top 5 in the world. It is a major center for pharmaceuticals, biotech, medtech, diagnostics, nanotech and chemicals. More than 30,000 people are working in life sciences and about 40% of the world's pharmaceutical industry is established in the greater Basel region.

Basel is home to international companies such as: Novartis, Roche, Syngenta, Synthes, Lonza, Straumann, Ciba, Actelion, Bachem and Clariant. It also has a network of smaller life science companies with the likes of: Arpida, Basilea, ROOTec, Santhera, and Speedel. The companies are supported by an excellent array of academic institutes: Biozentrum of the University of Basel, the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI).

BioBasel is offered in cooperation with BioValley Basel. For more about BioValley, please click here.