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Syngenta and QuantumBasel are teaming up to explore how quantum computing could transform agricultural research — starting with a deeper understanding of molecular interactions to advance crop protection and crop science.

Bardo Magel has officially taken over as CEO of the uptownBasel Group, succeeding founding CEO Baschi Dürr and bringing extensive international real estate and asset management experience to lead the campus into its next phase of growth.

Straumann Group plans to gradually relocate its headquarters to Arlesheim, further cementing uptownBasel as an emerging MedTech Innovation Hub and strengthening Basel-Landschaft's position as a leading innovation location.

uptownBasel and Primeo Energie have signed two new agreements — one turning surplus heat from the campus into renewable heating for thousands of homes in the Birstal region, the other securing reliable grid operation across all nine campus buildings.

QuantumBasel and uptownBasel have inaugurated Switzerland's first physical quantum computer — an IonQ Forte Enterprise system in Arlesheim — giving companies and researchers direct, on-site access to quantum computing for the first time in the country.

The University of Basel and QuantumBasel have announced a partnership to develop the Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence (QC2) into a leading international centre of excellence, strengthening the link between academic research and industrial quantum computing.

The ion trap — heart of Switzerland's first physical, commercially accessible quantum computer — has arrived at uptownBasel: IonQ's first-ever delivery of this core component outside the US, marking a major step toward sovereign, on-site quantum computing infrastructure in Switzerland.