Life sciences industry in Switzerland

The life sciences industry in Switzerland directly and indirectly employs about 135,000 people.

[2] In the same year Switzerland was the second largest exporter of packaged medicine in the world, with about 11% of the global total, worth $36.5 billion.

[3] Switzerland is home to many pharmaceutical companies, including very large groups, such as Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche.

[4][5] According to KPMG, there are 120 life science companies in Basel, 132 in Zürich and 92 in the Lemanic region.

[8] According to Le Temps, there are about 900 pharmaceutical and medtech companies (50,000 workers) in the region of Basel.

One of the many buildings of Novartis in Basel
The headquarters of Roche Diagnostics in Rotkreuz, Switzerland
The headquarters of Actelion in Allschwil
The former headquarters of Merck Serono in Geneva , which now hosts the Campus Biotech