Healthcare industry

Europe’s largest AI research consortium attracts interest from some of the world’s most successful venture capital firms.

Heidelberg Technology Park - 05/05/2020

Start-up support for life sciences companies

How can scientists turn their know-how into marketable products and services and thereby provide society with real added value? In addition to solid financing, start-up companies need a suitable infrastructure and a dense network of partners for exchanging expertise to help them get off to a good start when it comes to setting up a business. The Heidelberg Technology Park offers company founders in the life sciences exactly these success factors.

Article - 14/03/2018

Patent versus publication: setting up start-ups in the sciences

When it comes to universities as start-up incubators, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA is often used as a prime example of entrepreneurial impact. Well over 100 high-tech spin-offs have been set up in the vicinity of the renowned university. Many German universities also offer attractive conditions for scientists with an entrepreneurial spirit.

Article - 04/10/2016

Distance learning course in molecular biology – from lab to studies

In cooperation with the University of Mainz, the Springer publishing house is now offering distance learning courses for laboratory and technical assistants who wish to study while they are working. The courses lead to a Bachelor of Science degree. The successful programme for ambitious non-academics is being developed in several Baden-Württemberg cities.

CorTec just closed a new investment that will support bringing new personalized therapies for neurological diseases to patients. With Mangold Invest a new investor could be attracted who wants to go along that way with the young medical engineering company located in Freiburg. Equally convinced of the success of this project are the previous investors who are participating in this round of financing.

Article - 07/01/2014

BioMed X GmbH - An innovation centre in Heidelberg at the interface between academia and industry

BioMed X GmbH, founded in Heidelberg in March 2013, and Merck KGaA from Darmstadt have established a new way of fostering innovation at the interface of academic biomedical research and pharmaceutical industry-based research. Teams of top young and talented scientists from leading academic institutions worldwide carry out product-oriented research and development projects that are funded by the industry and for which they receive guidance from…

Press release - 01/06/2012

DFG Europa-Preis awarded to winners of national "Jugend forscht" competition

Four young researchers had two reasons to celebrate at this year's awards ceremony for Germany’s "Jugend forscht" competition in Erfurt. Not only did the young researchers place first in their respective fields, they were also awarded the Europa-Preis of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation).

Article - 17/10/2011

A European Health Axis

The research clusters of Heidelberg (Germany), Leuven (Belgium) and Cambridge (England) have launched the “Health Axis Europe” initiative, which is aimed at cross-leveraging their innovation resources and working together to increase their international competitiveness by facilitating and coordinating EU-funded collaborative R&D projects, cross-border VC investment and syndication and the cross-border exchange of scientists.

Article - 10/10/2011

Ambassador for Germany’s science landscape

The name Alexander von Humboldt is synonymous with the best ambassador for Germany as a country of science. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation launched the ideas competition “Research alumni of universities in Germany” in April 2011 and the winners have now been selected. The University of Heidelberg is one of the three winners and was awarded a prize for its best practice model for working with the university’s research alumni.

Press release - 18/03/2010

New training and conference centre for the life sciences

The German Minister for Education and Research, Annette Schavan, officially opened the new training and conference centre for the life sciences on the campus of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg on March 16th.

Celia Viermann an 18-year-old student came second in the 43rd Jugend forscht competition in the field of biology. Jugend forscht Youth researches is a German youth science competition and the biggest youth science and technology competition in Europe.

During the second Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells SBMC the MTZ-Award for medically-oriented Systems Biology will for the first time be presented. The prize sum of 5000 Euro can be divided and will be granted to the three best dissertations.