Tag: Pharmaceutical research
Moderna scores with vaccine against RS virus
Frankfurt The US biotech group Moderna has underpinned the performance of its mRNA technology with another positive study. Its vaccine candidate “mRNA-1345” against the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) achieved a…
Biotech companies will raise less capital in 2022
Frankfurt After record figures in the first two years of the corona pandemic, German biotech companies raised significantly less capital in 2022. A total of 921 million euros in fresh…
New omicron subline should become dominant
After the above-average number of respiratory diseases a few weeks ago, people in Germany seem to be struggling less with it again. The estimated rate of acute respiratory diseases fell…
Biontech and Moderna in the expansion race
Frankfurt Your sales in the Covid business will fall significantly in the current year. In research, however, Moderna and Biontech are continuing to expand at high speed. This was made…
Mainz-based vaccine pioneer takes over British start-up Instadeep
Biontech founder Ugur Sahin The aim is to make Biontech a technology company in which AI is seamlessly integrated into the work. (Photo: imago images/photothek) Frankfurt With the largest acquisition…
Dax group Bayer is again showing confidence in the growth of its pharmaceutical division
Frankfurt Bayer believes its pharmaceuticals division will grow faster in the long term than previously assumed by many external observers. The Dax group has now almost doubled the sales forecast…
Dax group Bayer is again showing confidence in the growth of its pharmaceutical division
Frankfurt Bayer believes its pharmaceuticals division will grow faster in the long term than previously assumed by many external observers. The Dax group has now almost doubled the sales forecast…
Curevac takes Sanofi manager Alexander Zehnder as boss – share increases
Alexander Zehnder The experienced pharmaceutical manager will become the new CEO of Curevac. (Photo: Curevac) Frankfurt After an intensive search in recent weeks, the biotech company Curevac has now found…
Curevac takes Sanofi manager Alexander Zehnder as boss – share increases
Curevac headquarters in Tübingen After the flop with the vaccine, the company is realigning itself. (Photo: imago images/ULMER press photo agency) Frankfurt After an intensive search in recent weeks, the…
FDA grants preliminary approval for new Alzheimer’s drug
Frankfurt On Friday evening, the American drug agency FDA granted preliminary approval for the new Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab, thereby raising hopes for further progress in the fight against dementia. The…
How Europe can shape the future of the megatrend bioconvergence
The author Belén Garijo is President and CEO of Merck. (Photo: dpa (2)) For three centuries, since the invention of the steam engine, Europe has led successive waves of innovation,…
Germany introduces mandatory tests for travelers from China – Belgium and Sweden also require tests
Travelers from China will have to present negative corona test results again from January 5 before boarding a plane to England. A government spokesman confirmed this to journalists in London…
After the Corona boom, the pharmaceutical industry is facing a dip in growth
Frankfurt In the past two years, the corona pandemic has given the pharmaceutical industry the strongest sales boost in decades. But the boom is abating and the industry will have…
Hope lies in new nasal spray
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt China is relaxing its restrictive corona policy and is focusing on new drugs. “We have now entered a new phase of the Covid response, with difficult challenges still…
How China is preparing for the Corona wave
Dusseldorf, Frankfurt China is relaxing its restrictive corona policy and is focusing on new drugs. “We have now entered a new phase of the Covid response, with difficult challenges still…
Canada, Australia and Morocco regulate entry from China – variant XBB.1.5 widespread in the USA
In the USA, a significant proportion of the new corona infections can be traced back to the XBB.1.5 variant, which has only recently been discovered. The US health authority CDC…
Canada, Australia and Morocco regulate entry from China – Taiwan offers help
People arriving from China are allowed from January 5th only enter Canada or Australia with a negative corona test. Morocco will no longer allow travelers from China into the country…
Spain also announces corona testing for travelers from China – Beijing allows Covid medicine Lagevrio
In the massive corona wave in China The Chinese authorities have approved the use of the drug Lagevrio (molnupiravir) from the American manufacturer Merck. The Chinese drug regulator reported on…
Lifting the mask requirement harms the economy – the USA is considering tightening the Covid rules for travelers from China
In view of the corona wave in China Japan strengthens its border controls for travelers from the People’s Republic. Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Tuesday, All visitors from…
Bayer, Boehringer & Merck are fighting for the position
Frankfurt With the huge success in the development of the Covid vaccine, the Mainz-based biotech company Biontech has suddenly risen to become one of the largest German pharmaceutical manufacturers. From…