Donors

HJ Wyss

«The Balgrist Campus offers an excellent opportunity to be able to conduct a new type of research and have different talents from research and industry work in close collaboration on a project that will then benefit patients as quickly as possible.»

Prof. Michael Hengartner
former rector University of Zurich UZH

«The University of Zurich is exceptionally pleased and grateful for the realization of the Balgrist Campus. Thanks to this private initiative and the generous support of third parties, it can thus significantly strengthen research of the musculoskeletal system.»

Dr. Ernst Thomke

«I very much welcome the extraordinary initiative to link research and industry to develop solutions for the benefit of patients and hope to ensure its rapid and sustainable success with my support.»

Kristian Parker
Chariman Oak Foundation

«The new Balgrist Campus offers an opportunitiy to practice medicine by supporting medical research and developing new technologies to generate new revenue. It will take advantage of a multidisciplinary infrastructure to provide a state of the art care for orthopaedic patients. The oak foundation is confident that through its vetting process, and with the help of respected international experts, we are investing in a worthy project. I will finish my brief statement by repeating the statement which we heard at the beginning oft he meeting, and which I took to heart: It is just as noble to restore function, as it is to save lives.»

Dr. Daniel Joggi
former President of the Schweizer Paraplegiker Stiftung

«Paraplegia research is an enormously important hope for paraplegics. The Swiss Paraplegic Foundation supports projects that improve the situation of paraplegics. The Balgrist Campus therefore deserves our support because it is committed to research in the field of paraplegiology and is close to patients.»

Rolf Schweiger
former Schindler Holding AG Board Member

«A world-leading competence center for research in muscle biology is to be established in Switzerland. To achieve this, previous boundaries must be overcome with fundamentally new ways of thinking. Schindler is pleased to support this innovative project.»

Pascal Brenneisen
former Country President Novartis Switzerland

«The Balgrist Campus stands for innovation and future-oriented entrepreneurship that serves the community. We have substantially supported the creation of the Balgrist Campus because we are convinced that this new research site will develop into an important national and international center of knowledge in orthopedic medicine.»

Henry C.M. Bodmer (1930-2015)

«Our family and I have supported Balgrist for three generations. I really think it's great that a research building like this can be built on private initiative.»