Medtech grants in Switzerland

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Funds French health and care consortia improving access-focused biomedical solutions.

Funds one large data platform that identifies shared biological markers for reward, motivation and impulsivity symptoms across Alzheimer's, depression, obesity and related disorders.

Funds training, twinning and digital-platform networks that raise ethics, regulatory and pharmacovigilance capacity across sub-Saharan African health authorities.

Funds beyond-proof-of-concept innovations that make infectious-disease prevention, treatment or diagnostics cheaper, more accessible or better suited to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Pays biomedical New Approach Methodology developers a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate animal-free testing methods and prepare them for regulatory use.

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Funds research into how climate change drives non-communicable disease, mental health harm or infectious disease, so health systems can better anticipate and respond.

Funds one project mining research cohorts and biobanks to find causal links between infections and non-communicable diseases, aimed at new vaccines, diagnostics and early treatments.

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Funds research into how environmental exposures interact with genetic and lifestyle factors to cause cancer in children, adolescents and young adults.

Funds Swiss university spin-off ideas from students with up to CHF 150,000.

Funds Swiss deep-tech university spin-offs already in Venture Kick with up to CHF 150,000.

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Supports Swiss and partner-country researchers through SERI bilateral projects for cross-border collaboration.

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Provides SERI Leading House pilot support for new research collaboration with LATAM, MENA, Africa, and Asia.

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Offers Swiss start-ups a CHF 10,000 coaching voucher to test and refine their business.

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Funds international collaborative research and innovation projects led by innovative small and medium-sized companies.

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Provides research mobility support for foreign early-career researchers in Switzerland through SERI scholarship pathways.

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Funds Swiss SMEs and start-ups already on the market to commercialise and scale innovation projects through Innosuisse direct grants.

Pays CHF 30,000 plus in-kind support to a standout Swiss innovation project.

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Supports Alzheimer’s and dementia drug development from preclinical readiness to early clinical testing across diverse modalities.

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Funds new biomarkers for Alzheimer's and related dementias through PET ligands, MRI, spinal fluid, and brain activity measures.

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Supports dementia prevention research through precision risk reduction, combination treatment testing, and effectiveness comparisons.

Offers $200,000 in prizes across five enterprise challenge streams for teams building quantum, AI and HPC solutions to real industrial problems.

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Awards $1 million to one winning mental-health research team, and $250,000 each to three runners-up, developing new interventions for anxiety, depression or psychosis, worldwide.

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Funds a consortium to build a new EIT Label-certified micro-credentials programme teaching entrepreneurship and innovation to healthcare students.

Funds small, high-risk exploratory research into reconstructive transplantation and vascularized composite allotransplantation for wounded Service Members and Veterans.