Bringing
innovation
to the patient

Connecting the best minds in translational research

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Collaborating on tomorrow’s discoveries

Supporting entrepreneurship in life science

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As the hub for translational research in the Swiss canton of Bern, we are teamed up with leading private companies, the University of Bern, the University Hospital of Bern (Inselspital), and a number of high-potential start-ups. Our facilities provide them, and you, with a unique space that thrives in an open innovation culture – what we call, the sitem+spirit.

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sitem-insel School is our partnership with the Medical Faculty of the University of Bern to deliver continuing education and research that connects the best minds in translational science

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sitem-insel Enabling Facilities is our business, medical and research campus designed to encourage innovation and cooperation between all partners and stakeholders

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sitem-insel Promoting Services is our expert access to strategies and state-of-the-art modeling for evidence-based stories and value propositions that link ideas to commercial success

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Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine

sitem-insel is a catalyst for a multidisciplinary collaborative approach to unlocking ‘bench to bedside’ innovation. We bring academia, government, industry, and science together in one place, with one goal: operational excellence in translational research. Cutting-edge platforms, leading academics and consultants work together within our state-of-the-art 20,000 m²facility based at the Insel Campus Bern, Switzerland. Our mission is to establish, operate and develop a National Center of Excellence for Translational Medicine that professionalizes translation research for the benefit of patients, society and science. Clinic and industry, research and education: together, we are sitem-insel.

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INNOFORUM

Innoforum is our networking event series which presents sitem-insel platforms and their innovations. Watch or join the webinars to exchange with platforms and stakeholders.

InnoForum #1

Speakers:
sitem-insel Promoting Services by Prof. Rudolf Blankart
HGF GmbH (Intellectual Property Specialists) by Mike Nelson

Innoforum #2

Speakers:
CSL Biologics Research Center by Adrian Zürcher, Alexander Schaub, Cédric Vonarburg, Marius Lötscher and Fabian Käsermann
Decomplix AG by Beni Hirt, CEO

Our achievements

Translational medicine offers a wealth of treatment opportunities. sitem-insel aims to enhance and improve the translatability of preclinical science into therapeutic advances. Our solution is to bring you – the stakeholders from academia, government, industry, and science – together in one place, with one goal: operational excellence in translational research.

>1'000

Partners in the sitem-insel network

CHF 2B

Investment in the long-term strategy

95%

Occupancy in platforms facilities

In the University Hospital of the Insel Group and in the medical faculty, ideas and new findings are generated every day on how to improve people’s health, and quality of life. sitem-insel makes it possible to show how these findings can be put into practice for the benefit of patients. A great thing, that makes me proud as a Bernese, and as the President of the Insel Group. Keep up the good work!

Bernhard Pulver

President Insel Group AG

The Swiss Institute for Translational and Entrepreneurial Medicine (sitem-insel) is a research institution of national importance and international appeal. The project has been designated highest priority by the Swiss Confederation, which is why the Canton of Bern and the federal government will both be supporting the institution from 2017 to 2020 with approximately CHF 25 million each. Medical technology, pharmaceuticals and biotechnology are trendsetting branches, and sitem-insel strengthens the innovation potential of these branches, opening up new opportunities and providing the ideal working environment in the field of translational medicine.

Christoph Amman

Minister of Economic Affairs and Member of the Government of the Canton of Bern

For someone who has worked for over 30 years in Pharma, Biotech, Medtech and a University Hospital like Inselspital, Translational Medicine has been a vision for many years. Much too long, we had to wait for an initiative like sitem-insel to quickly transform scientific solutions found by innovative researchers into clinical applications and products that have a real impact in our daily work and help to improve our patients lifes. That is why I personally have been committed to this project right from the start. The quality and speed with which sitem-insel was created is unique in Switzerland. The Insel Gruppe is very proud to be part of sitem-insel and we are looking forward to develop our common platforms successfully into the future.

Dr. med. h.c. Uwe E. Jocham

General Manager Insel Gruppe AG

sitem-insel is a truly unique public private partnership. It focuses on leading edge medical research and teaching with the aim to transform projects into scalable products. Kellerhals Carrard is an entrepreneurial law firm. We support our clients in their innovative projects and teach workshops. It follows that sitem and KC share joint values, which made it an easy decision to enter in a long-term collaboration agreement.

Dr. Beat Brechbuehl

Managing Partner, Kellerhals Carrard

Latest Updates

learn@lunch

October 01, 2020
12.15 - 13.00
Digital and/or Atrium A

InnoForum #4

- ARTORG
- Empa Materials Science and Technology

Open ARTORG machineshop

The machineshop "Mechanical Design & Production" (MDP) of the ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern, invites interested researchers to meet the team and the production process on site on 23 September 2020.

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art@sitem-insel: Meet Till Könneker

The collaboration between sitem-insel and Galerie SOON, tagged sitem-insel ArtConnection, features new high-quality art projects in sitem-insel’s public Atrium A every four months.