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Entrepreneurship

Enabling biology-based entrepreneureship 

Fundación Ciencia & Vida bridges academia and science-based companies to promote innovation and high-tech ventures in biology. Established in 2006 to attract scientific entrepreneurship, it hosts international and Chilean companies in its Science and Business Park, supporting more than 15 biotechnology companies.

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In Numbers

Annual Achivements

120

PostDoc

 24

PhD

20

Master

 2

Undergraduated

Business & Entrepreneurship unit

The Business & Entrepreneurship unit transforms scientific breakthroughs into investable businesses. It brokers alliances with industry, mentors founders, and catalyzes spin-offs through training, market validation, and deal flow.
​Programs like Entrepreneurship Talks and NextGen Innovators expand capabilities, while strategic partnerships and venture support drive translation from prototypes to scalable products.

Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer unit

CCV’s Intellectual Property & Technology Transfer unit safeguards and accelerates innovation from lab to market. It supports researchers and partners on patents, licensing, MTAs, collaborative agreements, and regulatory matters. It scouts emerging technologies; and guides ventures from grant design to commercialization, ensuring patentability, and market readiness across pipelines, and industry codevelopment. 

Science & Business Park

CCV’s Science & Business Park is a state-of-the-art 7,290 m² campus designed for discovery, training, and venture creation.
It houses research laboratories, core facilities, collaboration spaces, and startup offices, enabling seamless movement from proof-of-concept to market through colocation of scientists, entrepreneurs, investors and mentors, and partners focused on high-impact innovation.  

We seek to create a world where everyone has access to personalized precision medicine based on the unity of the human body and its microbial communities, thus improving clinical decision-making processes, health, and quality of life for all people.



Ango develops and commercializes biological reagents for human toxicology, aquaculture diagnostic kits, as well as recombinant proteins and antibodies for research. Ango has its production and research facilities in Chile while its distribution and commercial office is in San Ramon, California.

Biotech company that develops microbial technology for agriculture. The company has a proprietary methodology and microbial formulations for seed treatment, which are beneficial to plant development under normal and adverse growth conditions. With this technology, growers can achieve higher yields while reducing their use of agrochemicals.

GrupoBios is a organization committed to research, development, manufacturing and commercialization of products, services, instruments and software, all in the support of biomedical research and human and animal health.

Merken Biotech is a contract discovery research organization specialized in various areas such as histology, mass spectrometry, and microscopy.

Meristem is an emerging company that is taking advantage of the advances in genetic editing technologies (CRISPR-Cas9) to apply them to the improvement of cherry crops.

MyoDynamis is a drug discovery company that specializes in the expression of the dihydropyridine receptor (DHPR) in muscle fibers for the treatment of sarcopenia. The company has devised a drug candidate (with a promising safety profile) that improves muscle function in mouse models of sarcopenia.

Nova Mineralis has developed a novel leaching technology that aims to recover more copper from chalcopyrite than the methods currently used in the industry. The company is currently testing its technology at a larger scale in partnership with prominent mining companies overseas and in Chile.

PhageLab discovered and developed a novel application of bacteriophages as feed grade additives to reduce the use of antibiotics in the livestock industry.

Praxis Biotech is a US-based drug discovery company focused on bringing promising medical technologies from the research laboratory to the patients' bedside.

Thera Research is a clinical research organization (CRO) that supports biomedical companies in their clinical trials.

Trancura Biosciences is a US-based biotechnology company that uses targeted genomic approaches for the de novo design of monoclonal antibodies. The company develops efficient screenings based on molecular immune profiling to accelerate the discovery of new monoclonal antibodies for biomedically relevant molecular targets.

Accelerating bioproduct development using continuous fermentation technology.

True Node Sciences Inc. (TNS), a New York-based pharmaceutical and medtech company, addresses unmet needs in mucosal inflammatory diseases by developing innovative drug products and AI-based diagnostic tools. The pharmaceutical unit focuses on therapies for oral mucositis, periodontitis, ulcerative colitis, and mouth ulcers, aiming to revolutionize patient care.

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