Neuro Campus Day
The Neuro Campus Day is a one-day community event at Campus Biotech in Geneva on 2 November 2026. It brings together neuroscience, neurotechnology, clinical research, engineering and innovation communities from the…
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Life science career fairs and events in Switzerland
Career fairs, conferences, trade fairs and networking events in Swiss pharma, biotech and medtech, with the dates, the place and a link to the organiser's page.
November 2026
Absolvierenden-Messe Basel 2026
Career fair for students and graduates in the Basel region, across sectors. Exhibitors include Novartis, Bachem, CSL and Acino; CV checks on site.
Amide-Linked Hydrogels for Stem Cell Encapsulation and Glucose Sensing
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Matilde Piras, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, supervised by Prof. Dr.…
Development of FAP targeted theranostics: from FAP biology to preclinical readiopharmaceutical evaluation
Doctoral thesis defence: Adrianna Bilińska, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital. Faculty of Medicine, supervised by PD…
INNOSQUARE@MIC: Innovation for Healthtech, from Materials to Data
INNOSQUARE@MIC: Innovation for Healthtech, from Materials to Data takes place on 4 November 2026 at the Marly Innovation Center in Marly, canton of Fribourg. It presents MedTech technologies and projects from companies…
Protecting Groups for Acyl Boronates
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Samuel Steiner, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, supervised by Prof. Dr.…
Innovative Diagnostic Approaches for Urogenital Infections: from Gram Staining to Nanomotion
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Alexandre DELFINO, MD-PhD doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. Gilbert Greub. The…
On the flexible representation of an aversive experience: from evaluation to memory reconstruction
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Miguel Delgado, supervised by Johannes Felsenberg. The organiser's page gives the time, the…
Beyond Accuracy and Response Times: An Evidence-Accumulation Approach To Face Recognition
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Raphaël Fournier, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Prof. Dr.…
Facilitation in simple bacterial communities: how its mechanisms drive coexistence and how its strength evolves
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Eric ULRICH, supervised by Prof. Sara Mitri. The organiser's page gives the time, the room…
Modeling spinal locomotor circuits with spiking neural networks, mechanical simulations and robotics
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Alessandro PAZZAGLIA, Robotics, Control and Intelligent Systems doctoral programme,…
Probing the Role of ALK4/ACVR1B in Melanoma Immune Evasion
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Lei HUANG, Molecular Life Sciences doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. D. Constam. The…
From Many to a Meaningful Few: Organising Gait Parameters in Parkinson’s Disease from Anatomical and Neural Perspectives
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Zhongke Mei, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Prof. Dr. William…
Neuronal Lactate Transport and the Importance of MCT2 for Neuronal Energy Metabolism and Brain Function
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Alexandra von Faber-Castell, Institut für Pharmakologie & Toxikologie. The organiser's page…
Technology Circle
The Learning Factory: How AI Is Transforming Engineering, Manufacturing, and Expertise is a Technology Circle event organized by Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area AG. It takes place on 9 November 2026 at Actemium…
Tension Regulation and Dysregulation in Tendon Healing and Fibrosis
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Alina Dintheer, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Prof. Dr. Jess…
Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Health (aiHealth2026)
The 3rd International Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Health (aiHealth2026) takes place on 10 and 11 November 2026 at FHNW in Muttenz, Switzerland. It covers AI for diagnostics, therapeutics and citizen…
Characterisation of Leucine-Rich Repeat Receptor Kinase BTL2-Mediated Responses in Arabidopsis thaliana
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Yoonyoung Lee, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. The organiser's page gives the…
Chemtogether 2026
ETH Zurich's career fair for chemistry and pharmacy: 17 companies, among them Lonza, Bachem, Merck, AstraZeneca and Syngenta. Visitors from outside ETH welcome.
Reconciling Biodiversity Conservation and Human Nutrition: An Assessment of the Swiss Food System
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Eva Augustiny, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Prof. Dr.…
Structural and functional organization of the olfactory bulb in larval zebrafish
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Ruth Montano, supervised by Rainer W. Friedrich. The organiser's page gives the time, the…
Computational strategies to bridge data gaps in human internal exposure prediction for chemical risk assessment
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Hélène Bigonne, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Prof. Dr. Shana…
Long Nights of Careers 2026
Two career evenings at the University of Zurich where students and doctoral candidates meet employers. Cross-sector, not only life sciences.
Tet2-Clonal Hematopoiesis Promotes While Dnmt3a-CH Inhibits Breast Cancer Progression During Aging
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Nagihan Gizay Gönüllü, Cancer Biology PhD Program. The organiser's page gives the time, the…
Café Carrières (EN)
Café Carrières (EN) is an online career session organized by the Graduate Campus of the University of Geneva on 12 November 2026 from 09:00 to 11:00. It is aimed at PhD candidates and postdocs who want to explore…
Long Night of Careers 2026
Career evening at the University of Basel, 17:00 to 21:00, to meet employers and work on applications. Cross-sector, part of the national Long Night of Careers.
Improving adoptive-cell therapy with multiplex gene editing
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Arthur MULVEY, MD-PhD doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. Alexandre Harari. The…
Modelling the mouse barrel cortex: from anatomical structure to cortical dynamics
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Aleksandra Zuzanna TESKA, Neuroscience doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. C. Petersen.…
Protein Corona Formation on Low-Density Lipoproteins and its Applications
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Ding REN, Materials Science and Engineering doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. F.…
Toward Reduction of Animal Use in Antiviral Research : in-depth comparison of murine models and human airway epithelia
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Sheryline LOISON, Département de microbiologie et médecine moléculaire, supervised by Prof.…
Characterizing Upper Limb Recovery After Stroke Through Clinical and Technology-Aided Assessments
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Eva Josse, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, supervised by Prof. Dr. Olivier…
Biotech Chat: The Science Translator – Careers in Medical Affairs & the MSL role
Speakers from Novartis and Eli Lilly on medical affairs and medical science liaison careers, then questions and an apéro. For researchers moving to industry.
FONGIT Life – Boosting LS Innovation with AI
FONGIT-Life on Boosting LS Innovation with AI is an in-person lunchtime workshop on 17 November 2026 at Campus Biotech in Geneva, part of Global Entrepreneurship Week. Organised by FONGIT and the Swiss Data Science…
FoodHealth 2026: Startups, Insights & Awards
FoodHealth 2026 is an industry event on 17 November 2026 at Memox Basel SBB in Basel. The programme includes startup pitches from the FoodHealth Accelerator cohort, a keynote on sustainable growth in ag and food tech,…
FDX1-Independent Non-Canonical Cuproptosis Establishes a Parallel Mitochondria-Centric Death Program
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Jana Bachmann, Cancer Biology PhD Program. The organiser's page gives the time, the room…
From Code to Conformity
From Code To Conformity: Medical Device Software Workshop is a free full-day workshop on 18 November 2026 at the Alanine meeting room, Biopôle, Lausanne. It is organised by Firefinch Software with Lucendra MedTech…
SwAPP'ero – Afterwork Networking Event – Basel
Afterwork networking evening of the Swiss Association of Pharmaceutical Professionals. Free for members, CHF 25 for others; register by 10 November.
Atomic-level Structure Determination of Halide Perovskites by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Ümmügülsüm GÜNES, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering doctoral programme, supervised by…
BioAlps Networking Day 2026
The yearly gathering of the western Switzerland life-science community, the Health Valley, for talks and networking. Registration needed.
Discovery and characterization of small-molecule inhibitors of the DNA repair nuclease FAN1
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Diego Gómez Vieito, Cancer Biology PhD Program. The organiser's page gives the time, the…
Dynamic Phosphorothioates for Thiol-Mediated Uptake
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Jules Bouffard, Département de chimie organique. The organiser's page gives the time, the…
Multipanel Point-of-Care Electrochemical Biosensing Platform for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Precision Oncology
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Francesca RODINO, Microsystems and Microelectronics doctoral programme, supervised by Prof.…
Ultra-Miniaturized and Ultra-Low-Power CMOS Interfaces for In-Body Biosensing
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Ali MEIMANDI, Microsystems and Microelectronics doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. S.…
Chemical Tools and Active-Site Engineering to Interrogate and Reprogram ATAT1-Mediated Microtubule Acetylation
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Luis Hernández, Département de chimie organique. The organiser's page gives the time, the…
Transcriptional and chromatin regulation of cranial neural crest cell development and reprogramming
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Fiona Ross, supervised by Filippo M. Rijli. The organiser's page gives the time, the room…
The MAGNET – Drug Discovery & Quantum
The MAGNET – Drug Discovery & Quantum is a panel discussion on quantum computing in drug discovery on 25 November 2026 at the MC3 Main Campus Convention Center in Allschwil. Speakers come from Algorithmiq, FHNW, QAI…
A Journey through Time and Space: LTR Retrotransposons elucidate Plant Centromere Evolution
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Carlotta Wehrkamp, Department of Plant and Microbial Biology. The organiser's page gives…
From Risk Factor to Mechanism: The Role of Sex Hormones and the Sense of Agency in Functional Neurological Disorders
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Laure von der Weid, PhD in Medical Sciences. The organiser's page gives the time, the room…
Generative Artificial Intelligence for Accelerating Materials Discovery
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Junwu CHEN, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. Ph.…
Les Sciences de la Vie – Une Force à Préserver
Les Sciences de la Vie – Une Force à Préserver is a conference on 27 November 2026 at IMD Lausanne, organised by BioAlps. Experts, industry leaders, politicians, entrepreneurs, investors and academics discuss the…
Oligodendrocytes at the Interface of Systemic Metabolism and Nociceptive Processing
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Marta Mazurkiewicz, Institut für Pharmakologie & Toxikologie. The organiser's page gives…
SwAPP Cast - Clinical Evidence Generation - Online
SwAPP Cast is an online session on 27 November 2026 from 11:00 to 12:00 on clinical evidence generation. It is intended for professionals in pharma, biotech and medtech, especially in clinical development, medical…
Open Mic: Next in Health series
The Open Mic: Next in Health series event on November 30, 2026, focuses on precision immunology and the design of next-generation therapies. It features a panel with speakers from Novartis, ETH Zurich, Kairo Bio, and…
December 2026
Pitch-nic 2 with FMI
Pitch-nic 2 with FMI is an afternoon event at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel. It brings together innovators from Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area Novartis Campus and the…
Speed Mentoring - Exploring Green Careers: Pathways to a Sustainable Future
The University of Geneva Graduate Campus organises a speed mentoring event on 3 December 2026 at Uni Dufour for PhD and postdoctoral researchers. Professionals from sustainability-related sectors present their career…
Biorenewable approaches to functional food packaging and textiles
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Thanh Thi Hà LÊ, Materials Science and Engineering doctoral programme, supervised by Prof.…
Label-free single-molecule detection and discrimination of microcystins using aerolysin nanopore
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Alissa AGEROVA, Biotechnology and Bioengineering doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. M.…
Routes and Regulation of Glucose Delivery to the Living Mouse Brain Revealed by Two-Photon Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Rachel Meister, Institut für Pharmakologie & Toxikologie. The organiser's page gives the…
Seeing Beyond Fragments: Psychophysical Insights for Prosthetic and Computer Vision
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Elsa Irina SCIALOM, Neuroscience doctoral programme, supervised by Prof. M. Herzog. The…
Strategies in Pd-Catalyzed Carboamination of Unsaturated Bonds and Applications to the Synthesis of N-Heterocycles
Public defence of a doctoral thesis: Helena SOLÉ ÀVILA, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering doctoral programme, supervised by…
SwAPP'ero – Afterwork Networking Event – Zurich
Afterwork networking evening of the Swiss Association of Pharmaceutical Professionals in Zurich. Free for members, CHF 25 for others; register by 26 November.
Founders Connect Basel
Founders Connect Basel is an evening networking event for startup founders and entrepreneurs in Basel. It is organised by Switzerland Innovation Park Basel Area AG together with the Swiss Startup Association.…
DayOne Innovation Showcase 2026
The DayOne Innovation Showcase 2026 is the closing event of the annual DayOne Accelerator program. It takes place on 15 December 2026 at the Gehry Auditorium on the Novartis Campus in Basel. Healthtech startups pitch,…
January 2027
Computational Life Sciences Day 2027
A day on AI and digital methods in the life sciences, with networking. CHF 50, free for students.
February 2027
LS2 Annual Meeting 2027
The national life-science research meeting, with symposia and posters. The Young Scientists' Satellite on 9 February has a careers session.
Zurich Life Science Day 2027
Life-science career fair for students, PhDs and postdocs: company booths, one-to-one meetings with company representatives, CV checks and CV photos.
Day of Life Sciences 2027
Keynotes, industry case studies and research talks on real-time process monitoring, process analytical technology, spectroscopy and sensing.
March 2027
Forum HES-SO 2027
Career fair of the western Swiss universities of applied sciences: over 100 employers, across engineering, business, health and social work.
Conecto ZHAW 2027
ZHAW's job fair, about 200 companies across sectors, open to students from other universities. CV checks, application photos and lunch.
DIA Europe 2027
Europe's conference on drug development, regulation, clinical trials and pharmacovigilance, where regulators, HTA bodies and industry meet.
April 2027
Long Night of Careers @ USI 2027
Career evening, 17:00 to 21:00, with company corners, workshops and CV advice, for students and alumni of Swiss universities. Cross-sector.
Polymesse 2027
ETH Zurich's three-day job fair, over 140 companies plus start-ups and NGOs, open to students and doctoral candidates of every subject.
Swiss Biotech Day 2027
The Swiss biotech industry's yearly conference, exhibition and partnering. The 2026 edition had over 3,500 participants and 140 exhibitors.
May 2027
Life Science Career Day 2027
Career fair and workshops for life-science students and early-career researchers from any Swiss university who want a job outside academia.
ExEx Forum - 25 May 2027 - Bern
The ExEx Forum is a one-day conference on 25 May 2027 at the Sorell Hotel Ador in Bern. It is organised by the Swiss Association of Pharmaceutical Professionals (SwAPP) and covers regulatory updates, clinical…
The Pharma Days 2027
Trade fair for pharma packaging, drug delivery, contract manufacturing, filling and automation. Most useful to people in manufacturing and packaging.
June 2027
Swiss Medtech Day 2027
The Swiss medtech industry's yearly day: speakers, a tabletop exhibition and one-to-one meetings arranged between participants beforehand.
September 2027
Swiss Medtech Expo 2027
Trade fair and symposium of the Swiss medtech supply chain: about 200 exhibitors showing what goes into developing and making medical devices.
Ilmac Basel 2027
Trade fair for chemistry and the life sciences, about 200 exhibitors: lab technology, biotech, process automation and AI, for visitors from pharma to diagnostics.
Dates and places are as the organisers announce them. Check the organiser's page before you travel. Know of an event that belongs here? Write to info@lifesciencework.ch.