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Monday, 3 February 2020 at Technopark Zurich

Life Science Zurich Impact - The Cause of Health is a one-day multi track meeting providing scientists from industry and academia a plattform to present their life science projects to potential collaboration partners as well as to investors. The conference is organized by the Life Science Zurich Business Network and supported by the University of Zurich, the Canton and City of Zirich, the Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, the Zurich University of Applied Sciences as well as the Bio-Technopark Schlieren-Zurich.

It is in human’s innate interest to stay healthy, both mentally and physically, as long as possible. However, medicine has largely focused on studying the cause of illness in search for cures. Although we have made dramatic advances in identifying specific causes of illness in individual patients, we know remarkably little how individuals stay healthy. Cause of health research differs from classical medical and clinical research since it relies on data from healthy individuals. They play a central role in this research approach since only they can aggregate their different data and authorize access for research. The conference will address the opportunities and challenges which the ‘Cause of Health’ approach will offer from an ethical, research, commercial and healthcare viewpoint.

The conference includes keynotes and parallel sessions as well as investor sessions in collaboration with Venturelab and 1:1 partnering meetings.

Parallel sessions on the 4 P’s of Health – Prevention, Prescription, Personalized and Participation – as well as an investor track will focus on topics such as nutrition & exercise, diagnosis and biomedical imaging, citizen science, digital health, ageing and health and regenerative medicine.

Currently we are looking for speaker who would like to present the early stage project with a translational link. For specific information see Call for Speakers LSZ Impact 2020 (PDF, 135 KB)

Are you a Swiss-based life sciences startup - in particular in the fields of predictive health, preventive health, personalized health, heathtech and wellbeing - interested in pitching to investors?

Apply here!