Healthcare industry

Press release - 29/03/2010

First system for assessing the antiviral efficacy of textiles and articles in

Researchers at the Institute for Hygiene and Biotechnology (IHB), part of the Hohenstein Institute in Bönnigheim, have developed the world's first system for assessing the efficacy of textiles and articles in everyday use against viruses. With the help of a new procedure to test antiviral effectiveness, more targeted work can now be carried out to develop products treated in this way, optimising them to meet market requirements.

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…

Article - 14/12/2009

s4s Tries – thorough and reliable pharmaceuticals services provider

s4s stands for ”service for success” and Tries stands for Susanne Tries, the founder of the Ehingen-based company. Since 2002, the pharmacist has been offering services to the pharmaceutical industry and in this time the company has more than lived up to its claim of “service for success”. In fact, the company’s success is now enabling it to go one step further. The company founder envisages complementing her company’s established service…

Press release - 11/06/2010

comes compliance services enriches BioLAGO network

The addition of comes compliance services to the BioLAGO network broadens the life sciences associations skills in the fields of regulatory requirements and quality management systems. The company offers quality management systems audit services IT project management services quality risk management and validation services.

Press release - 23/11/2009

GATC Biotech soon opens sequencing laboratory in London

GATC Biotech Europes leading sequencing service provider for industrial and academic research announces that it will open a sequencing laboratory in London to provide scientists in UK and Ireland with single sample sequencing services. The GATC London Laboratory will be situated in the London BioScience Innovation Centre LBIC and will start operations on January 4 2010.

Karlsruhe based quantiom bioinformatics has developed a software tool that enables the comparative analysis of chromosomes and that enables statements to be made on the correlation of genomic alterations and disease development.

Partnering with Prognosys Biosciences febit offers a new Genome-to-Array Service. This Service gives scientists access to the latest technology and know-how in sequencing and microarrays even for DNA where no standard microarrays are available.

As a 100% affiliate of the Baden-Württemberg government, BIOPRO Baden-Württemberg GmbH provides targeted support to the pharmaceutical industry and the biotechnology and medical technology sectors as well as supporting the development of a bioeconomy.

Article - 11/03/2013

Trenzyme – optimal expression of recombinant proteins

Trenzyme GmbH in Konstanz offers services and products in the fields of genomics and proteomics. The company specialises in contract research and custom R&D services and is also working on new and improved products and processes. The company recently developed a new method for the rapid identification of optimal expression conditions for recombinant proteins.

Press release - 08/01/2009

ILM – Applicators and method development

The ILM offers a broad range of services relating to the development of devices and methods. The service offer comprises the entire value creation chain from the initial solution concept to the applicable functional model.

Press release - 30/03/2010

Mediagnost GmbH - successfull since 25 years

Mediagnost Gesellschaft für Forschung und Herstellung von Diagnostika GmbH in Reutlingen is one of the oldest biotechnology companies in Germany. Mediagnost offers a broad range of services including the production of antibodies proteins and viruses the analysis of samples and the customisation of raw materials. The company celebrated its 25th anniversary on 19th March 2010 with a series of events.

Article - 10/12/2012

MicroMol GmbH and “the fine art of life science”

MicroMol GmbH carries out microbiological, molecular and cell biological analyses, is active in research and development, performs validations and produces and sells laboratory products for the life sciences industry. This brief description reflects a broad product and service portfolio that addresses a wide range of different clients, including companies in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries and in the medical technology, industrial…

Press release - 16/05/2012

OGpharma in China

OGpharma (CEO: Dr. Wanzhou ZHAO) is a Contract Research Company (CRO) located in Nanjing’s Gulou Science Park. The company offers two services: a) contract research, and b) consulting service for international cooperation.

Press release - 10/11/2009

Nexxor GmbH - Semantic technologies enable future-focused knowledge management

Stuttgart-based Nexxor GmbH uses its topicWorks platform as a basis for developing “knowledge-oriented” information systems specifically for the pharmaceutical, biotech and life science sectors. These standardised software systems are no longer based solely on data and documents. They employ an innovative concept to map the meanings and semantic relationships of content in a flexible way, similar to processes used by the Semantic Web.

Article - 11/11/2013

Vitaphone GmbH - innovative telemedicine

Vitaphone GmbH from Mannheim is a leading international telemedical service provider. Its services range from telecardiological functional diagnostics, 24/7 telemonitoring of risk patients to integrative care management of chronically ill patients. Vitaphone is particularly involved in the application of structured telemonitoring-based therapy programmes for patients with heart failure.

Article - 12/03/2012

Q-bios provides client-specific biotechnology services

Q-bios GmbH, a spin-off from the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, is a biotechnology company that provides services related to the production and purification of diagnostic and therapeutic proteins as well as the development and amplification of suitable cell lines. The company offers its services, which are based on state-of-the-art technologies, to clients from the biotechnology, diagnostic and pharmaceutical industries.

European Commission Vice President Günter Verheugen launched Enterprise Europe Network a new and powerful European support network for enterprises. All major players of the business support community in Europe have united to offer a one-stop service to assist especially small and medium sized enterprises.

The deadline for submitting applications is the 14th March 2008.

BioRegionUlms concept on the development of innovative biopharmaceutical products and services in Baden-Württemberg has been declared one of the winners.

Vetter Pharma Fertigung a Ravensburg-based specialist in the production of aseptically pre-filled injection systems is strengthening its commitment to the North American market. Laupheim-based Rentschler Biotechnologie a contract research organisation that has been continuously expanding since 2006 has further investment plans.

Article - 30/08/2010

Bodensee Brustzentrum offers effective breast cancer prevention services

The two Brustzentrum Bodensee (Lake Constance Breast Centre) sites at the Hospital in Constance and the Women’s Hospital in Friedrichshafen have a principal goal: to enable the best possible early detection of all types of breast cancer, to reduce the morbidity and mortality of breast cancer patients and to increase survival rates by offering ultra-modern breast cancer prevention measures.

Press release - 29/03/2012

GATC Biotech’s NightXpress sequencing service goes Europe-wide

GATC Biotech, Europe’s leading sequencing provider, now offers its overnight sequencing service NightXpress Europe wide. This unique overnight service has been made possible by the recently opened European Custom Sequencing Centre in Cologne. In Constance, the company’s headquarters, GATC Biotech is building up the European Genome and Diagnostics Centre.

Article - 28/03/2018

New method for analysing epigenetic modifications - in the service of medical progress

It is not just genetic factors that influence developmental processes and diseases; it is becoming increasingly evident that epigenetic changes play a major role too. Thanks to a new method developed at the University of Stuttgart, epigenetic processes can now be investigated in living cells.

Article - 07/04/2009

Hendrik Küpper – at the service of plants and humans

Prof. Hendrik Küpper had his first experience as a scientist in 1992 when together with his brother and a friend he participated in the German governments Jugend forscht contest. The students came first in biology in the national competition and first in both the Young Europeans Environmental Research Contest and the European Community Contest for Young Scientists. Back then Küpper was already interested in the interaction between heavy metals…