Therapy Development Accelerator (TDA)

The TDA supports company formation, preparation, and launch of life science projects from within UZH. We work alongside founders to "stress-test" all aspects of the idea, gather key feedback, and ultimately facilitate investment and partnering discussions.

Following UMZH’s mission of “ensuring excellent medical and health care for the public through its research”, we are open to all life science projects (biotech, medtech & digital health) and all departments, hospitals, centers, and institutes, provided there is intellectual property originating at UZH. We welcome students, post-docs, staff, faculty or alumni. We support projects with commercial as well as non-commercial goals. The focus is always on the benefit to the patient or consumer.

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UZH Life Sciences ecosystem to support translational projects

	Academic projects	Spin-offs
Training	UZH Bioentrepreneur & Innovation course UZH Innovators Camp
Funding	UZH Entrepreneur Fellowships for Biotech and Medtech Wyss Zurich (regenerative medicine and robotics)	UZH Life Sciences Fund (with Novartis Venture Fund)
Infrastructure	UZH Incubator Lab	Bio-technopark
Patenting & Licensing	Unitectra
Rigorous product development and 1:1 tailored strategic sessions	Therapy Development Accelerator (TDA)

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UZH spin off guidelines

Vision and challenges when supporting translational projects and spin-offs of the University of Zurich. Learn more in this interview.

TDA recently co-authored a comment in Nature Medicine with a few thoughts on how to best support academics in order to translate their projects into new therapies for patients.

Full article here: https://rdcu.be/bYqrf