One-liner: the Generalitat's public-health and biomedical research foundation — manages I+D+i across 19 of the region's 24 health departments, offers a licensable technology portfolio to health/medtech startups, and runs a dedicated public procurement of innovation (CPI) office that can turn a hospital need into a company's first paying customer.
What a founder gets
- Clinical/epidemiological research access: FISABIO integrates R&D across Fisabio-Salud Pública and Fisabio Departamentos de Salud (Fisabio-DS) — covering 19 of 24 Valencian health departments (hospitals, primary-care and public-health centres), 5 long-stay/chronic-care hospitals (HACLE), the region's blood-transfusion centre, the emergency medical service (SESCV), and the Hospital Intermutual de Levante. This is real-world clinical-validation access a healthtech startup cannot easily get elsewhere.
- Technology portfolio (cartera tecnológica) available for licensing — actual patented/patent-pending assets across pharma/nutrition (e.g. CDK4 cancer-inhibitor compounds, antimicrobial fatty-acid compositions, glaucoma/retinopathy diagnostics/treatments), medical devices (endoscopy instrumentation, hemostasis devices, prosthetics, urinary-flow sensors), in-vitro diagnostics, and health IT/imaging software — a startup can license IP directly rather than build from scratch.
- Public Procurement of Innovation (CPI) — FISABIO runs a dedicated CPI strategy (project CPImpulse, plus CPImpulse+ for an upcoming "Mapa de Demanda Temprana") aimed at buying innovative solutions the health system actually needs. This converts unmet clinical/hospital needs directly into public-sector customer contracts for startups that can respond — a genuine market-access route, not just R&D collaboration. Contact: cpi@fisabio.es.
- UCIE (Unidad de Acceso Clínico a la Innovación) — links hospital R&D directly to companies, funded by AVI; complements INCLIVA on the clinical-access side.
- Collaborative programs & sustainability projects — e.g. GREEN HEALTH-HUBI, EPIVALORA, AIRCOV, Compra Pública Verde, Sanidad Circular — routes for co-development on environmental/health-system-sustainability tech.
- Training/formation and a "Sello HRS4" (HR excellence in research) — relevant to a startup hiring or partnering with FISABIO-affiliated researchers.
Who it's for
- Healthtech, medtech, biotech and digital-health startups (early to growth stage) needing clinical validation, a licensable technology base, or a public-sector first customer via CPI.
- Best engaged once a company has a concrete solution to test or a technology to co-develop — less suited to pure idea-stage founders.
How to engage
- CPI: email cpi@fisabio.es directly to discuss collaboration or track "Mapa de Demanda Temprana" opportunities as they open.
- Technology licensing: browse the cartera tecnológica at fisabio.san.gva.es/es/innovacion/cartera-tecnologica; each entry has a downloadable technical fact sheet ("ficha").
- General/institutional contact: Avenida de Cataluña 21, 46020 València · +34 961 92 57 00 · fundacion@fisabio.es.
- UCIE / clinical access: via the Innovación menu at fisabio.san.gva.es (UCIE section).
Key facts
- 2025 figures (per fisabio.san.gva.es "Fisabio en números"): 173 research groups · 939 research personnel · 284 active projects · 623 clinical trials · 9,327 publications · 29 patents · 395 people employed.
- Governed via an Acuerdo Marco de Cooperación between the Conselleria de Sanitat and FISABIO — confirms
hybridownership (public health authority + foundation structure). - Also coordinates the Red Valenciana de Biobancos (Valencian biobank network) — an additional biotech-relevant asset.
- CPI escape-room outreach initiative (2026): a touring "escape room" format to introduce CPI concepts to health departments, research foundations, universities, science parks and business associations across the Comunitat Valenciana during 2026 — signals active, resourced effort to grow the CPI pipeline (not just a policy document).
- Address: Avda. de Catalunya 21, 46020 València · +34 961 925 700.
Relations
- See also: INCLIVA
- See also: Biotech-Health (niche)
- Partners with: INCLIVA FISABIO Health Innovation
- See also: EIT KICs