Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health celebrates 3rd anniversary

Launched three years ago, the competence center is now fully operational and offers high quality services to innovative companies, academic researchers and clinicians. Jointly created by the University of Fribourg and the Fribourg Hospital, the Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health (SICHH) aims to provide companies, scientists and clinicians with advanced equipment and highly specialized […]

Launched three years ago, the competence center is now fully operational and offers high quality services to innovative companies, academic researchers and clinicians.

Jointly created by the University of Fribourg and the Fribourg Hospital, the Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health (SICHH) aims to provide companies, scientists and clinicians with advanced equipment and highly specialized skills in the fields of medical technology, biotechnology, food technology, pharmaceuticals and all areas related to human health.

Located at the blueFACTORY technology park, in the canton of Fribourg, SICHH offers specialized expertise to its academic and industrial customers in four complementary areas:

• Genome sequencing and proteomics;

• Microscopy and materials characterization;

• The human-machine interaction and an effective visualization of complex results;

• Analysis and interpretation of results; modelling and simulation data.

Thanks to world-renowned industrial partners such as Nanosurf, Zeiss and CCOS, the center is provided with latest generation equipment. This concept allows start-ups, SMEs and larger companies to outsource part of their R&D.

Since its creation three years ago, SICHH has launched SwissCompanyMaker, a successful workshop, and SwissTechnologyHub, a technology exchange pipeline between Switzerland and Brazil that will be launched in August in conjunction with the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.