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Knowledge Transfer UNIL CHUV helps researchers protect inventions, secure funding, build partnerships and manage agreements with external partners, turning research results and academic innovation into real-world impact.
For Researchers
For External Partners

How we can help

Inventions, IP & Licensing

Protect inventions, manage intellectual property and bring innovations to market.
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Contracts & Partnerships

Get support with collaboration agreements, contracts and partnerships with external organisations.
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Funding Innovation

Access funding to validate your technology, develop a proof of concept or launch a start-up.
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Research Grants Support

Find funding opportunities and strengthen your grant applications.
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How we can help

Inventions, IP & Licensing

Protect inventions, manage intellectual property and bring innovations to market.
Protect your invention

Contracts & Partnerships

Get support with collaboration agreements, contracts and partnerships with external organisations.
Request contract support

Funding Innovation

Access funding to validate your technology, develop a proof of concept or launch a start-up.
Explore innovation funding

Research Grants Support

Find funding opportunities and strengthen your grant applications.
Explore grant support
50+
Patents filled
30+
Start-ups supported
5MCHF
Funded
25years
Of expertise

For Researcher

A personalized service to inventors
In collaboration with a professional network, with regards to all aspects of technology evaluation, protection of intellectual property rights and creation of a start-up.
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For Industry

Find a collaboration, or invest in a technology
We are the primary contact point to engage in any collaboration, partnership or venture with researchers from the University of Lausanne or the CHUV.
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Funding Programs

Three grants to test your concept, validate your invention and launch your start-up.

InnoTREK

CHF 100,000 – Provided by FIT

1 year

Create and develop your start-up

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InnoSTEP

Up to CHF 40,000

Up to 12 months

Validate and demonstrate the potential of a patented invention.

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InnoDIGITAL

Up to CHF 40,000

Two funding tracks

Develop a digital proof of concept or a digital start-up.

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Technologies available for

Licensing

Discover technologies developed at UNIL and CHUV that are available for licensing and commercial partnerships.

High-throughput methods of microbiota analysis

Category: Medical Imaging
Institution: chuv
With the increasing realization of the crucial roles played by microbial communities for human, animal, high-throughput methods of microbiota analysis are gaining ever greater importance.
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Next-Generation MRI Biomarker Extraction Tool for Early Cardiovascular Risk Detection

Category: Medical Imaging
Institution: chuv
Today’s MRI-based cardiovascular markers rely heavily on either manual segmentation or opaque end-to-end AI prediction tools, which can limit scalability and clinician trust.
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Broad-Spectrum Microbicide Candidates for the Prevention of Viral and Bacterial STIs

Category: Pharmaceuticals
Institution: chuv
Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) continue to rise globally, highlighting an urgent need for prevention tools that go beyond pathogen-specific antivirals and vaccines.
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Therapeutic composition to combat CAR-T cell unresponsiveness and method of rejuvenation

Category: Pharmaceuticals
Institution: chuv
CAR-T cells, while promising in immunotherapy as a key strategy for cancer treatment, often become unresponsive, especially in elderly patients or in solid tumors.
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Differentiated tissue excitation in MRI

Category: Medical Imaging
Institution: chuv
The suppression of fat signals is an important component of many magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) exams in the clinic. Signals from fat need to be suppressed to obtain high quality images.
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Therapeutic Target for Neurodevelopmental Disorders

Category: Pharmaceuticals
Institution: chuv
Social impairment is frequently associated with mitochondrial dysfunction on and altered neurotransmission. Although mitochondrial func on is crucial for brain homeostasis, this has not yet been exploited to develop therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders.
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Treatment of Trigger Finger

Category: Medical devices
Institution: chuv
Trigger finger or stenosing tenosynovitis is a common medical disorder of the hand. It is characterised by the catching or locking of the involved flexor tendon. When a tendon is inflamed or swollen, it may not fit properly into the tendon sheath that surrounds and supports it.
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Hybrid Tracer for Imaging and Surgical Guidance of Prostate Cancer

Category: Pharmaceuticals
Institution: chuv
Enhancing Cancer Imaging & Surgery with Multi-Modal Precision
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Startup Alpha

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  • About us
Partner for an 
Innovative World
We are the joint the joint technology transfer office of the University of Lausanne (UNIL) and the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV).
Here are what we focus on:
  • Protection and management of intellectual property,
  • Protection and management of intellectual property,
  • Promotion of interactions between companies and our institutions and researchers,
  • Commercialisation of research results (i.e. license contracts, research and service contracts) and
  • Support of local start-up creation.
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InnoTREK: one-year financial support to create your start-up

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BioInnovation Day 2026: A Day Dedicated to Innovators & Investors

The BIND BioInnovation Day 2026 will take place on April 1, 2026, at the CHUV...

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A Unil Discovery for Vaccine Development Turns into a Start-Up

The CRISPRi-seq technology, stemming from fundamental research within the team of Professor Jan-Willem Veening at...

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The project Hevelion wins an InnoTREK grant

The Knowledge Transfer UNIL CHUV congratulates Marco Varrone from the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Department...

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InnoTREK: one-year financial support to create your start-up

You are a UNIL-CHUV researcher who would like to create a start-up and need a...

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A jubilee that symbolizes rebirth

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