Swiss HLG Start-Up Initiative workshop on June 12

We held the second Swiss HLG Start-Up Initiative workshop on June 12, kindly hosted by Johnson & Johnson at their new campus in Allschwil.

This initiative is a collaboration between Swiss HLG, BaseLaunch and Johnson & Johnson and aims to help 30 great biotech start-ups get Fit for Partnering through a series of four linked workshops.

At the June workshop nine brave start-ups pitched to an expert jury, including Johnson & Johnson, Novartis, Roche, Pureos Bioventures and Forty51 Ventures. We are enormously grateful for the thoughtful insights provided by Anthony Gemmell, Markus Werner, Alessandra Polara, Ying Wang, Anne Grahl and Sara Núñez-Garcia, PhD, MBA. And big thanks to our Board member Michael R Huebner for being a fantastic organiser and host.

The quality of the pitches was impressive and we would like to thank the wonderful start-ups for pitching:
- Amporin Pharmaceuticals
- Antion Biosciences SA
- Ariya Bio
- Barrier Therapeutics
- T-Oncology AG
- ILONOV
- MT-act
- Selmod
- FatiAbGen Inc.

It was a fantastic event with a great atmosphere and we are keenly looking forward to the next workshop in September, which will dive into partnering and term sheet negotiations.