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Built with partners in Zurich and Geneva, spora is a spatial proteomics atlas that EPFL describes as the world's largest freely available collection of its kind, designed to speed up AI research on how diseases develop.

EPFL releases a free tissue atlas to help AI understand cancer

2 November 2026

Top Stories Western Switzerland

Top Stories from Western Switzerland (October 2026)

28 October 2026

Switzerland's sports tech sector counts 402 companies, an estimated CHF 8 billion in revenue and about 17,000 jobs, according to the first Swiss SportsTech Report. Vaud and Bern are among the three cantons that concentrate about half of the companies.

First Swiss SportsTech Report maps a CHF 8 billion sector with Vaud and Bern among its main hubs

26 October 2026

Hilo, a Neuchâtel-based health tech company and CSEM spin-off, has been named to TIME's 2026 Best Inventions list for Hilo Core, one of the first continuous blood pressure monitors designed for home use.

Hilo Core named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026

21 October 2026

The sitem-insel School in Bern is accepting applications until 15 December 2026 for two continuing education programs of the University of Bern: a CAS in Biomedical Entrepreneurship and a CAS in Artificial Intelligence in Digital Medicine.

From biomedical start-up to clinical AI: sitem-insel opens two University of Bern CAS programs

19 October 2026

A new study by BAK Economics shows that the life sciences sector generates CHF 20.6 billion in direct value added in Western Switzerland, and CHF 28.3 billion once its ripple effects across the regional economy are taken into account.

Life sciences generate CHF 28.3 billion in direct value in Western Switzerland

6 October 2026

Top Stories Western Switzerland

Top Stories from Western Switzerland (September 2026)

5 October 2026

The Foundation for Innovation and Technology has awarded CHF 100,000 Tech Seed loans to Dexterous Endoscopes, for an endoscope that switches from flexible to rigid during a procedure, and to Precisia Care, for its hospital data analytics platform.

FIT grants Tech Seed loans to Dexterous Endoscopes and Precisia Care

14 September 2026

The Foundation for Innovation and Technology has awarded five Tech Grants of CHF 100,000 each to projects from the canton of Vaud: three FIT-InnoTREK grants to Chorus Tre, HeteroSight and SixtineAI, all arising from the CHUV, and two FIT-Innogrant grants to Cookd Labs and Endobotica, both from EPFL.

FIT awards five Tech Grants to projects from the CHUV and EPFL

7 September 2026

An interdisciplinary team from the University of Bern and Inselspital has developed CARESCORE, an AI model that calculates a patient's individual risk of postoperative infection within seconds of surgery ending, by drawing on vital signs recorded during the procedure.

Bern researchers develop an AI model that predicts infection risk at the end of surgery

31 August 2026

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