The purpose of this section of our website is to give professionals a brief overview of the main biotech clusters around Europe and Internationally that might provide the job and career development opportunities that they are seeking. These are biotech clusters with which Liftstream has client relationships.

Biotech Cluster - BioValley – Switzerland, Germany and France

Biovalley is a leading Biotech cluster in Europe, bringing together the regions of Alsace in France, South Baden in Germany and Northwest Switzerland, including Basel the Pharmaceutical hub. Biovalley brings together important ingredients for a successful biotech cluster, a concentration of companies, rich availability of skills and experience within Life Sciences and a research base that is world-class.

 

Currently, there are around 30,000 people employed in the cluster across some 600 companies, ranging from big pharma, medtech and start-up organisations. It is a region that offers companies the financial and venture capital access, strong professional services in special disciplines, technology transfer and other technology platform and scientific services.

 

The region houses two of the global large pharmaceutical companies in Roche and Novartis and their presence is a further stimulus for the local talent market as people are employed in jobs with emerging ventures like Basilea Pharmaceutica, Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Transgene, Speedel and Santhera Pharmaceuticals.

 

The entire process of drug development is covered in the region, from research through to clinical and drug development and manufacturing. With companies such Rhenovia Pharma, Novalyst, Faust Pharmaceuticals, PhenoPro, Eli Lilly and PharmaSter all representative of the business diversity and skill demand present in the region.

 

From a career perspective, this means that there are considerable opportunities for job diversity. This diversity exists in terms of the job you can do and the area of sector in which you can work. If you are moving to a new region of Europe to pursue career opportunities, it is often important to know that the onward employment opportunities are considerable, so that you have the assurance of being able to plot successive career moves. Biovalley provides these options, with a mixture of large pharma career opportunities and the offering of jobs in local start-up biotech or medtech companies.

 

Liftstream has chosen to feature Biovalley as a ‘featured-cluster’ because of its involvement with clients in the region. It believes strongly in the tri-national structure that BioValley has and the cultural and career diversity this offers. Liftstream wants to highlight those hot-spot areas in Europe where professional people can benefit from strong job opportunities but perhaps have not considered the location previously.

 

We would encourage you to research this region more when evaluating your next career move by following the links below. Alternatively, call your Liftstream consultant to discuss.

 

BioValley: www.biovalley.com

Alsace BioValley: www.alsace-biovalley.com