Sectors
When science helps life
The Cluster brings together and connects all public and private players active in the health value chain to promote the progress of life sciences in Lombardy.
Pharmaceuticals
Medical devices
Digital health
Biotechnology
Health and well-being
Pharmaceuticals
Italy counts one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical industries. Companies are able to combine the highest standards of quality, innovation, investments and productivity underpinning the sector’s development and attracting investments amounting to more than EUR 3 billion per year.
Medical devices
The sector features a high degree of market and product differentiation, which is essential for the development of both healthcare and the Italian economy. There are 2,523 production companies that, together with 1,643 distribution and 380 service companies, either produce or distribute medical devices in our country. The Lombardy region counts about 1,400 companies operating in areas such as in vitro diagnostics, home and digital care, and biomedical solutions.
Biotechnology
As key enabling technologies for many industries, biotechnology uses living organisms to develop products and processes, providing answers to many of the increasingly urgent public health needs of modern society. Biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics and vaccines are the three macro fields of application of biotechnology in the health sector. They provide extraordinary tools for prevention treatment and care.
Digital health
The term digital health brings together under a single definition all solutions, technologies and aspects of health related to the digital world. Priorities shared by the work group include various applications in education and health systems, as well as in the prevention of health-related disparities.
Health and well-being
In order to ensure optimum health, it is essential to use state-of-the-art innovative technologies, besides encouraging the active participation and well-being of citizens by combining care and social aspects with de-hospitalisation policies, the promotion of a healthy and active lifestyle, and healthy ageing.