Tag: Biotech
Big Pharma is boosting the blockbuster business with spin-offs
Frankfurt The pharmaceutical industry is in the middle of a profound structural change. The leading companies in the industry are increasingly specializing in drug production. And part with fringe activities…
Lawsuit against Biontech over Corona vaccine
Curevac laboratory The Tübingen biotech company has filed a lawsuit against Biontech and two subsidiaries of the Mainz-based company. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The Tübingen-based biotech company Curevac sees its patents…
Curevac accuses Biontech of patent infringement
Curevac laboratory The Tübingen biotech company has filed a lawsuit against Biontech and two subsidiaries of the Mainz-based company. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The Tübingen-based biotech company Curevac sees its patents…
Handelsblatt journalists honored with European media prize
Maike Telgheder (3rd from left) and Siegfried Hofmann (2nd from right) The two Handelsblatt journalists accepted the award in London. From left to right moderator Nina Hossain, Rozi Morris, from…
German biotech companies: growth in a difficult environment
on the trail of genes Preparing a sample for genetic analysis: German biotech companies are in demand with investors. (Photo: IMAGO/Westend61) Frankfurt At first glance, investments in the German biotech…
Tübingen-based biotech company Immatics agrees billion-euro deal with Bristol-Myers
researcher in the laboratory The two companies want to jointly develop up to six cell therapies based on standardized, genetically modified immune cells. (Photo: imago images/Panthermedia) Frankfurt The Tübingen-based biotech…
These biotech companies are supposed to curb infections
Institute for Microbiology of the German Armed Forces in Munich Drugs and vaccines against monkeypox are now well researched. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt With the series of monkeypox infections, a new…
Biontech triples sales & profit in the first quarter
Biontech Because vaccine deliveries only got going in the course of 2021, Biontech can show enormous growth when compared to the previous year’s figures. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt Thanks to extensive…
Biotech company slips deep into the red
Curevac After CVnCoV withdrew from the approval process last year due to comparatively weak efficacy, Curevac and its partner GlaxoSmithKline began developing a new vaccine. (Photo: Reuters) tubingen The Tübingen…
Formycon wants to become a player in the biosimilar business
In the laboratory After Lucentis, Formycon also wants to launch biosimilars for Stelara and the eye drug Eylea by the middle of the decade. Frankfurt It is not only the…
Sartorius is benefiting from the biopharmaceutical boom – and could make acquisitions
Sartorius The laboratory supplier ended 2021 very successfully. Frankfurt Almost 50 percent sales growth and 70 percent more adjusted profit: The Göttingen-based laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment supplier Sartorius can look…
Sartorius is benefiting from the biopharmaceutical boom – and could make acquisitions
Sartorius The laboratory supplier ended 2021 very successfully. Frankfurt Almost 50 percent sales growth and 70 percent more adjusted profit: The Göttingen-based laboratory and pharmaceutical equipment supplier Sartorius can look…
Cyber wars of the future: What experts warn of
cyber war Attacks via the Internet will become even more common, experts predict. (Photo: imago images/Panthermedia) austin Russia is also waging war against Ukraine online, destroying thousands of computers and…
Morphosys makes a loss of half a billion euros
Morphosys The bottom line is a minus of 514.5 million euros. (Photo: MorphoSys) Frankfurt The $1.7 billion takeover of the American biotech company Constellation Pharmaceuticals is becoming a serious burden…
Huadong joins Heidelberg Pharma – share increases strongly
Frankfurt The biotech company Heidelberg Pharma is strengthening its financial reserves and research activities through an alliance with the Chinese company Huadong Medicines. The group intends to invest more than…
Managers have to position themselves politically
Dusseldorf Her warning could hardly be more topical: companies would be confronted with geopolitical risks in the future, says management consultant Katrin Suder in the current episode of the podcast…
Corona vaccine from Sanofi and GSK is about to be approved
Vaccine from Sanofi and GSK With their vaccine, the pharmaceutical companies would only be number six in the largely divided market. (Photo: Reuters) Frankfurt After positive study data, the pharmaceutical…
Corona boom brings record growth to pharmaceutical industry
Frankfurt In 2021, the corona pandemic gave the pharmaceutical industry the biggest jump in sales in decades. Overall, the industry generated additional sales of almost $100 billion last year with…
Qiagen tops annual targets – but dampers expected in 2022
Diagnostics company Qiagen Qiagen reports a surprisingly strong quarter at the end of the year. (Photo: dpa) Frankfurt The diagnostics group Qiagen made a spurt to the end of the…
How Europe is becoming the leading biotech location
Innovative mRNA technology has clearly won the race for an effective vaccine against Covid-19 and impressively demonstrated the potential of biotechnology in medicine to the world. The development of vaccines…