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.
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

BSL-3 laboratory tenanted
We are pleased to announce that we have signed the rental agreements for our BSL-3 laboratories.