Building a fast-lane to novel therapies – join the Orion Pharma Veturi research ecosystem!

Our goal is to shorten the time from idea to market of new innovative medicines by using data and artificial intelligence.

Our mission

We will create a dynamic, digitally boosted pharmaceutical research ecosystem in Finland by combining therapy area insights, disease-relevant data with world-class data science and information technology.

This ecosystem will develop new services, products and solutions to the global healthcare market.

We invite Finnish pharmaceutical, biotechnology and technology companies, research institutes and universities to join our research ecosystem.

Business Finland has granted funding to the program through their Veturi initiative. Business Finland aims to increase innovation and the competitive advantage of Finnish companies in international markets through partnership funding.

Apply to the Health and Pharma Pitching Competition for YScience 2025!

Are you an early-stage science-based startup or prestartup tackling problems related to:

Oncology
Novel tools for disease detection and monitoring
Applications of AI/ML in health and drug discovery
Pre-clinical modelling to decrease animal testing in drug discovery

If so, this is your chance to pitch to potential investors, industry experts, and a global life science community on the YScience stage, at Slush 2025 on November 19!

This year´s pitching competition is jointly organised by HiLIFE from the University of Helsinki, Swissnex, and Orion Pharma, and it is open for teams from both Finland and Switzerland.

Applications close September 22.

More information about the pitching competition here

Applications may be submitted here