Life Sciences Digital Innovation Hub cluster starts operating in Vilnius City Innovation Industrial Park

At the initiative of the Vilnius City Innovation Industrial Park (VCIIP) operator, the Northtown Technology Park (NTP) and the Vilnius University Life Sciences Center (VU LSC), a national business and research partnership platform – Life Sciences Digital Innovation Hub (LS DIH) is being mobilized in the capital to promote digital innovations in life sciences sector.

LS DIH will develop its activities at VCIIP, paying special attention to the clustering and strengthening of cooperation between companies operating in the fields of biochemistry, biotechnology, molecular biology, genetics, neurobiology, molecular medicine, clean technology and information technology.

According to Gediminas Pauliukevičius, CEO of the Northtown Technology Park, the park took the initiative to create a digital innovation platform in the field of life sciences, seeing the opportunity to encourage more active cooperation in the life sciences sector and the potential to develop new common digital products. As the operator of VCIIP, the Northtown Technology Park will also coordinate the activities of LS DIH.

“Companies located at the Vilnius City Innovation Industrial Park are already applying complex digital solutions in their activities, using artificial intelligence for research data processing, analysis and forecasting. It is clear that the value of new digital solutions in the life sciences sector will grow at an ever-increasing rate in the near future. Therefore, when creating the Life Sciences Digital Innovation Hub at VCIIP, we have a clear vision – to create solutions that open up new opportunities for the life sciences industry here, in the neighborhood of strong research centers and universities, ”says Dr. Gediminas Pauliukevičius. He also hopes that the cooperation between the platform companies will be further strengthened when the majority of LS DIH partners will be located in a business and science incubator that will open its doors at VCIIP by 2022, where specialized laboratories adapted to biotechnology companies will be established.

The director of Vilnius University Life Sciences Center Dr. Gintaras Valinčius emphasises the fact that digital technologies are one of the most important factors for new breakthrough directions in the life sciences industry to develop and compete on a global scale. According to him, the fusion of specialized scientific knowledge and digital technologies is generating entirely new industries, which are increasingly gaining the name of deep-tech.

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