The Campus Biotech is a Swiss institution hosting

research institute A research institute, research centre, or research organization is an establishment founded for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research. Although the term often implies natural ...

s and

biotechnology Biotechnology is a multidisciplinary field that involves the integration of natural sciences and Engineering Science, engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms and parts thereof for products and services. Specialists ...

companies. The Campus Biotech is located in the former

Merck Serono Merck Serono (EMD Serono in the United States and Canada) is a pharmaceutical company headquartered in Darmstadt, Germany, and a brand and division of Merck focused on biopharmaceuticals. In September 2006, Merck KGaA announced its intent to ...

building, in Geneva (Switzerland). The Campus Biotech is a part of the

Swiss Innovation Park Switzerland Innovation (German: ''Schweizerischer Innovationspark'', French: ''Parc suisse d'innovation''), organised through the Switzerland Innovation Foundation is the Swiss national network of science parks. It was inaugurated by Johann Schn ...

History

End of June 2013,

left its headquarters in Geneva and the building was bought by

Ernesto Bertarelli Ernesto Silvio Maurizio Bertarelli (born 22 September 1965) is an Italian-born Swiss billionaire businessman and philanthropist. The 2017 edition of the Sunday Times Rich List estimated the family's wealth at £11.5 billion, an increase of £1 ...

and

Hansjörg Wyss Johann Georg "Hansjörg" Wyss ( ; born 19 September 1935) is a Swiss billionaire businessman and donor to politically liberal and environmental causes in the United States. He is the founder and former president and chairman of Synthes, a medic ...

(for more than 300 million

Swiss franc The Swiss franc, or simply the franc, is the currency and legal tender of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It is also legal tender in the Italian exclave of Campione d'Italia which is surrounded by Swiss territory. The Swiss National Bank (SNB) iss ...

s) to create the Campus Biotech.Dejan Nikolic, "Genève récupère le Human Brain Project, au détriment de Lausanne", ''

Le Temps ' (, ) is a Swiss French-language daily newspaper published in Berliner format in Geneva by Le Temps SA. The paper was launched in 1998, formed out of the merger of two other newspapers, and (the former being a merger of two other papers), ...

'', Wednesday 30 October 2013, p. 7.

Structure

* EPFL- UNIGE Biomedical Center (14000 m²) ** Center for Neuroprosthetics ( EPFL) *

Human Brain Project The Human Brain Project (HBP) was a €1-billion EU scientific research project that ran for ten years from 2013 to 2023. Using high-performance exascale supercomputers it built infrastructure that allowed researchers to advance knowledge in ...

and

Blue Brain Project The Blue Brain Project was a Swiss brain research initiative that aimed to create a digital reconstruction of the mouse brain. The project was founded in May 2005 by the Brain Mind Institute of ''École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne'' (EPFL ...

( EPFL) (5000 m²) * Wyss Center for Bio and Neuroengineering (8000 m²) *

Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics Foundation(s) or The Foundation(s) may refer to: Common uses * Foundation (cosmetics), a skin-coloured makeup cream applied to the face * Foundation (engineering), the element of a structure which connects it to the ground, and transfers loads f ...

(FIND) * Biotech Innovation Square (12000 m²)
Health 2030 Genome Center

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History

Structure

See also

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