Tampere Health Technology and Life Sciences Ecosystem

Tampere University Hospital Tays is a visionary healthcare provider. In addition to excellent care, the focus is on research, development and innovation. As a university hospital it educates future healthcare professionals.

Tampere university community’s priority areas are technology, health and society. The faculty of Medicine and Health Technology (MET), with staff of over 500 with over 70 research groups, brings together unique research expertise in medicine, biosciences, and engineering.

Tampere Heart Hospital treats patients with heart problems and Coxa is the only hospital in Finland that specializes fully in joint replacement surgery. Both hospitals operate in close connection with the Tampere University Hospital. In addition, there are several private healthcare and well-being providers offering services in the region.

The Finnish Clinical Biobank Tampere (FCBT) focuses especially on cardiovascular diseases, cancer, autoimmune diseases and type 1 diabetes in alignment with the research strategy of both Tampere University and Tampere University Hospital. FCBT serves both academic research and R&D done in medical companies.

Tampere is known as one of the key imaging hubs in the world due to the rich mobile technologies heritage, as well as university research in signal processing and imaging. Learn more about the Tampere Imaging Ecosystem connecing the various  imaging counterparts together.

Tampere offers an excellent setting for entrepreneurship and startups. The city actively invests in young entrepreneurs, and the strong local startup culture has created countless success stories in the video game and manufacturing industries as well as health tech, to name a few.