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.
Bringing
innovation
to the patient -
by connecting people
Collaborating on tomorrow’s discoveries
Supporting entrepreneurship in life science
Our Services
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 research units, leading academics and consultants work together within our state-of-the-art 20,000 m2 facility 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.
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.
>100
Partners in the sitem-insel network
CHF 2B
Investment in the long-term strategy
95%
Occupancy in platforms facilities
Latest Updates
InnoForum#18
EMPA
Title: "PHRT Imaging project: Towards holistic virtual 3D histopathology techniques”
Clinical Trials Unit - CTU Berne
Title: “Faster, cheaper and smarter clinical trials: Risklick, the first start-up of CTU Bern”
learn@lunch – January
"Translating medical history: significance of looking back"
Prof. Hubert Steinke, Director Institute for the History of Medicine, University of Bern
Manuel Kaiser, Director of the Medical Collection Inselspital Bern
Medical Collection Inselspital Bern: Analogue Exhibits of the New Digital Museum
The medical collection comprises more than 10,000 exhibits, mainly from the period since 1900, representing activities, treatments, inventions, and objects from everyday hospital life. A small exhibition in our Atrium 3 currently provides insights into this diverse collection.
New EU Research Project “Screen4Care”: Accelerating Diagnosis for Rare Disease Patients Through Genetic Newborn Screening and Artificial Intelligence
An international public-private consortium of 35 partners, including sitem-insel and the University of Bern, announced the launch of Screen4Care – a research project that aims to significantly shorten the time required for rare disease diagnosis and efficient intervention.
Meet our Partners
- Anklin (see CATR)
- be-advanced (see sitem+insight)
- Bern Economic Development Agency
- Decomplix (see sitem+insight)
- Getinge (see CATR)
- HGF Intellectual Property Specialists
- Insel Gruppe (see CATR)
- Kellerhals Carrard (lawyer in residence)
- Mölnlycke (see CATR)
- Storz (see CATR)
- Swiss Medtech (see sitem+insight)
- Swiss Center for Design and Health (SCDH)
- Switzerland Innovation Park Biel/Bienne
- Universität Bern (see CATR)