Our Company

Securecell is a trusted partner for biopharma, enabling new therapies to be delivered to patients in a safe, efficient, and economical way. We engineer ground-breaking measuring and control technologies to radically improve bioprocessing, medical treatment, and patient health.

For more than 25 years, we have provided innovative bioprocessing solutions for biotech, pharma and academia. This expertise and experience has built a solid foundation for the transfer of next-gen biotechnologies into the Medtech field and a broader reach for our most important innovations.

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“A great invention can only serve those within reach. Foresight, scaleability, and cooperation are integral tools of grand design, and a vital part of our mission”
- Carlo Andretta, Ph.D.

CEO & Founder

OUR MISSION:

Create ingenious technologies
to improve lives on a global scale.

 

FACTS & FIGURES

>95

Company 
Innovators

>1'000

Installations 
across big pharma, 
biotech, academia 
and CDMOs

>6'000

Integrated 
hardware and 
software solutions 
in-use

MILESTONES IN OUR COMPANY HISTORY

  • 1989-1992

    Carlo Andretta’s PhD studies at ETH Zürich: General concept for organizing upstream bioprocesses

  • 1992

    Incorporation of Biospectra AG as a Spin-off of ETH Zürich. Development of on-line process analytical systems

  • 1993-1995

    Development of Lucullus® Process Information Management System

  • 1995-1998

    First installations of on-line HPLC systems in the biopharma industry

  • 1999-2013

    Numerous innovative Process Analytical Technology and bioprocess automation projects in R&D and GMP

  • 2003-2009

    Development of fully automated parallel bioprocess systems

  • 2010

    Incorporation of Securecell AG. Start of the MedTech business unit to develop a novel diabetes treatment

  • 2014-2018

    Development and first installations of Numera® automated sampling system

  • 2015

    First distribution agreement with Applikon for Lucullus®

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  • 2019

    Relocation of the company to the new headquarters in Urdorf, Zürich

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  • 2019

    Foundation of a US-based subsidiary for sales and customer support in the USA

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  • 2020

    Collaboration with Roche Custom Biotech focused on automated sampling & on-line analytics for bioprocesses

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  • 2022

    Introduction of Integra One, a fully integrated end-to-end bioprocessing platform

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  • 2022

    Partnership with DataHow AG to accelerate bioprocess development through machine learning-based models

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  • 2023

    Opening of a branch office and foundation of a subsidiary based in the Netherlands

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  • 2023

    First animal trial with Seraccess: automated blood sampling including glucose measurement

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  • 2024

    Partnership with CGT Catapult Ltd. (UK) and DataHow AG for the integration of new digitization and PAT in cell and gene therapy

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  • 2024

    Securecell launches novel high-throughput Bioprocessing solutions Intega1 64 and SampleBus.

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