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22.12.2022 | Caldre

Porträt Felix Baier

An unexpectedly successful experiment - in an interview with uniaktuell, Felix Baier explains how he wants to develop a new drug from an unexpected result. As a start-up entrepreneur, he hopes to close a gap in the treatment market for certain liver diseases.

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24.11.2022 | Enzoxa

Porträt Matheus Notter

The interdisciplinary team at Enzoxa is working on a new treatment for stomach diseases. Venture Fellow Matheus Notter explains in an interview why it pays not to give up after failures.

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07.11.2022 | YLAH

Porträt Florence von Gunten

“The fellowship came at exactly the right moment” - Interview with Florence von Gunten, founder of the start-up YLAH, in uniaktuell. She received the Venture Fellowship Grant for her start-up YLAH, which is working on a digital solution for “blended psychotherapy”: the combination of traditional psychotherapy with online tools.

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26.07.2022 | machineMD

Porträt Dominic Senn

Dominic Senn appreciates the challenge of starting and creating something new. With the UniBE spin-off machineMD, the co-founder wants to improve the early detection of brain diseases through a combination of virtual reality and artificial intelligence.

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16.06.2022 | Boum

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Smart solutions for the green city of the future, made entirely from by-products of Swiss forestry and agriculture. Boum co-founder and plant scientist Matthias Erb explains his vision in an interview with uniaktuell.

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14.06.2022 | Alveolix

Teamfoto Alveolix mit Preis

Alveolix wins the Swiss Medtech Award 2022! The University of Bern spinoff, founded in 2019, has been awarded the coveted Swiss Medtech Award. Their Miniature lung replaces animal testing and advances personalized medicine.

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04.04.2022 | Sensawear

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Sensawear, a Spin-off of the University of Bern, launches the world’s first truly wearable tissue health monitoring system. In an interview with STAGE UP, they explain how sensor technology could help paraplegics lead a better life.

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21.03.2022 | Atanis Biotech

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The spin-off that simplifies and speeds up the diagnosis of allergies - interview with the Atanis Biotech team as part of STAGE UP. They explain how the diagnostic procedure works and how they came together as a team.

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11.03.2023 | First UniBE Venture Fellowships have been granted

Gruppenbild UniBE Venture Fellows 2022

For the first time, the University of Bern has awarded four "UniBE Venture Fellowships" to support entrepreneurial young researchers and their promising innovation projects: two are dedicated to combating antibiotic resistance, one to liver disease therapy and the fourth to improved psychotherapies.

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15.02.2022 | Pathojet

Alessandro Lugli und Miryam Blassnigg mit Pathojet

Bernese innovation for the pathology of the future: Alessandro Lugli and Miryam Blassnigg have developed a kind of medical cockpit for pathology that offers advantages for their discipline and for patients.

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15.12.2021 | PeriVision

Porträt Serife Kucur

PeriVision, a University of Bern spin-off, is awarded 1.5 million Euros by the European program EIT Health to market its AI-based portable testing device that wants to revolutionize glaucoma care. Co-founder Dr. Serife Kucur, explains in uniaktuell how their solution will improve diagnosis and treatment via VR glasses.

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11.03.2021 | Publisher Pro

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“My biggest challenge is to turn my idea into a company” - Interview with Kali Tal, founder of Publisher Pro as part of STAGE UP. With the software as service (SaaS) application ‘Publisher Pro’, Kali offers the first platform to systematize and support the scientific writing process with detailed automated coaching and tools.

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18.02.2021 | Combioxin

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With the life-saving drug CAL02, Combioxin SA is revolutionizing the field of severe infections such as pneumonia. Managing Director Samareh Azeredo da Silveira Lajaunias explains how the spin-off successfully transforms the invention made at the Institute of Anatomy, University of Bern, to a market-ready pharmaceutical product.

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