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.

Ecosystem roadmap

A digital boost for the pharmaceutical R&D.

Already joined in the research ecosystem:

Companies:

Academic:

Admescope Oy
AiForia Oy
Algoritmiq Oy
Astra-Zeneca
Bayer Oy
BC Platforms Oy
Bionavis Oy
Boehringer-Ingelheim
Charles River Oy
ClouDriven Oy
CSC
Docrates Oy
Experimentica Oy
FRCBS
Genevia Technologies Oy
Misvik Biology Oy
Mylab Oy
OneCarbon Therapeutics
Pfizer
Pharmatest Oy
Probiont Oy
Productivity Leap Oy
Quantori Oy
Scellex Oy
SCHOTT Oy
Silo.AI Oy
Solita Oy
Top Analytica Oy Ab
Valio Oy
ValoTx Oy
Veil.ai Oy

Aalto University
HUS
Karolinska Institutet
Kuopio University Hospital
Turku Bioimaging
Turku University Hospital
University of Eastern Finland
University of Helsinki
University of Oulu
University of Sheffield
University of Tampere
University of Turku

Join us!

The research ecosystem provides diverse opportunities for various parties to collaborate and create novel business together.

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