Life Sciences Directory

The Vienna BioCenter is a leading life sciences location in Europe and offers a unique combination of research, education and business on one campus: 2,800 employees from over 80 countries, 1,500 students, 135+ research groups and 35+ biotech companies. The Vienna BioCenter Association has over 45 companies, institutions and organizations as members and offer a range of benefits for them and their employees.

The Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities (VBCF) offers state-of-the-art research infrastructure & scientific services to academic research institutes and companies in the field of Life Sciences at Vienna BioCenter and beyond. We enable scientists to stay at the forefront of science by providing access to latest technologies & expert support in the fields of next generation sequencing, optical and electron microscopy, histology, structural biology, model organism phenotyping, and Drosophila research.

The Vienna Business Agency supports local and international companies in all phases of their business development, providing advice on all corporate issues and helping expats get up and running in Vienna. Anyone wanting to found a company, start-ups, sole traders, domestic and international small and medium-sized enterprises or corporations will receive all the information they need.

The Vienna Open Lab is a hands-on laboratory, situated in the middle of Austria's largest biotechnological research location - the Vienna BioCenter. The joint initiative of Open Science and the Institute for Molecular Biotechnology of the Academy of Sciences (IMBA) was opened in 2006 and offers kids, teens and adults the opportunity to look behind the scenes of a research laboratory and to perform a wide range of experiments. More than 13.000 people visit the Vienna Open Lab each year.

WWTF's mission is to support outstanding scientific research by providing funding resources. We embed our scientific work in socially relevant issues through carefully planned focus areas and active networking between disciplines and institutions. In addition to our funding activities, we offer services in the field of research and innovation through our subsidiary (WWTF GmbH). This is how we seek to contribute to a better world through science and research.

Vinc supports Life Sciences companies globally with strategic consulting and corporate finance advisory services including financing solutions, throughout their entire business cycle. All the way from start-up, via company growth to succession and exit.

ViruSure was founded in 2005 to offer a range of biosafety testing services to biopharmaceutical product manufacturers. We offer a wide range of biosafety testing services to meet all relevant pathogen safety testing requirements. We focus on cell line characterization, mycoplasma testing, prion testing, tumorigenicity testing, oncogenicity studies, cell identity testing, mycobacteria testing, cell bank testing and virus bank testing.

Vivaldi Biosciences is developing its DeltaFLU influenza vaccine to provide broad cross-protection and superior efficacy in the prophylaxis of seasonal and pandemic influenza. DeltaFLU is composed of influenza vaccine strains genetically modified by deletion of the gene for nonstructural protein 1.