Biotech grants in Switzerland
Explore Biotech grants for companies in Switzerland. This list brings together funding for drug discovery, diagnostics, cell and gene therapy, biomanufacturing and life-science research from Swiss innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Switzerland, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Biotech in Switzerland come first.
Showing 121-144 of 596 grants
Horizon Bioeconomy: Circular Thermoset Materials
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects that make durable products from renewable feedstocks and give cross-linked plastics viable recycling, reuse or upcycling routes.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Industrial & Environmental Biotech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds three €4M lump-sum grants for industrial and environmental biotech — synthetic biology, gene editing, biofoundries — not health biotech or biofuels.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Marine Bio-Based Products
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €5M projects turning marine organisms — algae, fungi, invertebrates — into safer bio-based replacements for adhesives, coatings and chemicals.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Residual Biomass Biotech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects that turn farm, forestry, aquatic and urban bio-waste into market-ready chemicals, materials and ingredients.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Safe Bio-based Farm Inputs
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €20M industrial project making safe bio-based fertilisers or crop-protection products that work in real fields.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Scalable Biorefinery Processing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds consortia to cut cost, solvent use, energy and water in biorefineries, tested across at least three industrial or demo-scale use cases.
Horizon Bioeconomy: Woody Residue Biorefinery
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €7M projects turning bark, sawdust and other woody residues into validated bio-based chemicals or materials for sustainable end products.
Horizon CBE: Alternative-Source Bio-Polymers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3.25M projects that turn alternative bio-feedstocks into safe, circular polymers tested across at least two markets.
Horizon CBE: Bio-Based Textile Fibres
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two €3.25M projects that turn sustainable biomass or bio-based textile waste into high-performing, circular fibres.
Horizon Environment: Bioremediation for Ukraine
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds consortia developing biotech and nature-based decontamination methods for war-damaged land, water and air, proven on real sites in Ukraine.
Horizon Health: Rare Disease Partnership (ERDERA) Phase 2
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds rare-disease research calls, clinical trial networks and shared data for ERDERA's second phase — open only to the existing coordinator.
Integrating a holistic perspective in microbiome research for resilient, competitive and sustainable food systems
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research consortia, including businesses and startups, that study microbiomes across plants, humans and environments to unlock new food-system applications.
Leveraging Europe's Expertise to accelerate Cell Therapy for Type 1 Diabetes
🇪🇺IHI JU · European Union
Funds one project to standardise beta-cell manufacturing, immune-tolerance strategies and clinical criteria that speed up cell therapy for type 1 diabetes.
Leveraging R&I knowledge on microbiome
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one consortium to run a microbiome research one-stop-shop and coordination hub for EU policymakers and regulators.
Making food systems more resilient to food safety risks through the deployment of technological solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds R&D that turns existing food-safety science — molecular methods, genomics, photonics — into deployable tools against food fraud and safety risks.
New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) for Biomedical and Regulatory Testing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds development of lab-grown human tissue models, organ-on-chip systems and AI-driven simulations that can replace animal testing in drug and medical device development.
Nutrients produced by microorganisms utilising primarily CO2 from the air, with the support of biotechnology
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds companies and researchers scaling up precision-fermentation microorganisms that turn captured CO2 into food nutrients.
Nutrition in emergency situations - Ready-to-use Supplementary Food (RUSF) and Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AU-EU research consortia developing locally-produced therapeutic and supplementary foods for child malnutrition in Africa.
Optimising Advanced Therapy Medicinal Product (ATMP) Manufacturing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds industry-academia consortia that refine and scale up the manufacturing process for one class of cell or gene therapy, from quality control through to deployment.
Post-Infection Long-Term Conditions Research
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of long-term health conditions that persist after a viral, bacterial, parasitic or fungal infection has cleared.
Raising citizen awareness on alternative proteins derived from biotechnology
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one consortium to run a public-education and communication campaign on biotech-derived alternative proteins such as precision-fermentation foods.
Reconstructing areas affected by conflicts: the role of the bio-based solutions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds bio-based and nature-based reconstruction solutions for areas damaged by conflicts such as the wars in Ukraine and Gaza.
Research infrastructure services to enable R&I addressing main challenges and EU priorities
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds transnational access to research infrastructure services in one of three areas — industrial biotechnology, radionuclide facilities, or climate prediction.
Retrofitting of (bio)refineries industrial plants towards higher-value bio-based products
🇪🇺CBE JU · European Union
Funds retrofitting an existing industrial or biorefinery plant to produce higher-value bio-based chemicals or materials than its old process line.