USI is an Affiliated Member of Biotechnet and participates in the platform Tissue Engineering for Drug Development.

USI is present in Bellinzona and Lugano.

The Bellinzona Institutes of Science (Bios+) building is a multidisciplinary research hub in Bellinzona encompassing:

• the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB)
• the Institute of Oncology Research (IOR)
• the EOC-USI Institute for Translational Research (IRT)

In Lugano, USI's Euler Institute fosters interdisciplinary cooperations in Life Sciences, Medicine, Physics, Mathematics, and Quantitative Methods.