Press release - 30/01/2017 ChemCon celebrates 20th anniversary ChemCon GmbH, service provider for custom development and custom manufacturing of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and fine chemicals, based in the Innovationspark (innovations park) Freiburg, Germany, celebrates its 20th anniversary. On January 29 in 1997, Dr. Raphael Vogler (CEO) and Dr. Peter Gockel (CSO), both graduates from the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, signed the partnering contract to found ChemCon. Today they count 90…
Press release - 24/01/2017 Cancer Medications Learn to Hide The European Research Council awards Wilfried Weber an ERC Proof of Concept Grant. Wilfried Weber, Professor of Synthetic Biology at the University of Freiburg, has received a grant of roughly €150,000 for his project “Hide and Seek with Cancer Drugs” in which he is working to improve the drugs used in cancer treatment.
Press release - 05/01/2017 Phenex receives 100 M USD Milestone Payment from Gilead Phenex Pharmaceuticals AG (Phenex) today announced that the company has received a 100 M USD milestone payment from Gilead Sciences, Inc. of Foster City, CA, U.S.A., for its program with GS-9674 targeting nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH).
Press release - 05/01/2017 HepaRegeniX GmbH Raises €9 million in a Series A Financing to Develop Kinase Inhibitors for the Treatment of Acute and Chronic Liver Diseases HepaRegeniX GmbH, a new Biotech company developing innovative treatments for liver diseases, announced today the completion of a €9 million Series A financing. The round was led by Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund GmbH (BIVF) and Novo Seeds, and complemented by the High-Tech Gruenderfonds and coparion.
Press release - 14/12/2016 Acousia Therapeutics Receives EUR 2.5 Million to Develop Innovative Therapy to Treat and Prevent Sensorineural Hearing Loss Acousia Therapeutics GmbH announced today the closing of a new investment round of EUR 2.5 million to finance research programs directed at the development of small molecules to treat sensorineural hearing loss and protecting sensory hair cells of the inner ear to prevent hearing loss in at-risk patients.
Press release - 14/12/2016 amcure Raises €6 Million in Series B Financing and Expands Advisory Board Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen – 14 December 2016: amcure, a biopharmaceutical company developing first-in-class cancer therapeutics, today announced the closing of a Series B financing round amounting to a total of EUR 6 million.
Press release - 13/12/2016 Early-diagnosis systems from Baden-Württemberg help prevent the spread of drug-resistant pathogens More and more bacteria are developing resistance to multiple antimicrobial drugs. These multidrug-resistant bacteria can impede the action of common antibiotics via mutations or DNA transfer. More than 30,000 people are infected every year with multidrug-resistant bacteria in German hospitals alone. This could be prevented with appropriate hygiene measures and innovative test systems. Innovative test systems that enable reliable and rapid…
Press release - 12/12/2016 Curetis obtains EIB debt financing totaling up to EUR 25 million to further expand its diagnostic platform
Press release - 30/11/2016 Takeda to invest more than 100 Million Euros in Dengue Vaccine Manufacturing plant in Germany Konstanz, Germany, November 29, 2016 and Osaka, Japan, November 30, 2016 – Takeda Pharmaceuticals Company Limited, (“Takeda”) today announced that it will invest more than 100 Million Euros to build a new manufacturing plant for its dengue vaccine candidate in Singen, Germany.
Press release - 04/11/2016 Atriva Therapeutics Announces Upcoming US Patent Issuance for MEK Treatment against Viral Diseases
Press release - 04/11/2016 Rentschler expands cGMP manufacturing capacity following increased international demand
Press release - 19/10/2016 100 exciting health research projects Around 600 people came to the ”European Health Science Match” conference in Heidelberg to listen to 100 leading up-and-coming researchers from all over Europe, each of whom had three minutes to present their current research projects on the diagnosis and therapy of disease.