German biotech report: sector grows despite financial crisis

30.04.10 Berlin/Chicago – Despite the financial crisis, the German biotechnology sector grew in the last year. According to a brand-new biotech-report commissioned by the German Research Ministry and published just a couple of days... more

Germany to channel EUR 80 million into stem cell centre

19.04.10 Munster – Germany’s federal state North-Rhine Westfalia is to channel EUR 80million into the medical applications of stem cell research. On Friday, the country’s minister Juergen Ruettgers announced that the money will be used... more

Bayer HealthCare spin-out AiCuris raises EUR 55 million

15.04.10 Wuppertal – Bayer’s anti-infectives spin-out AiCuris has raised EUR 55 million in this year’s largest financing round of a German biotech company lead by the existing shareholders. The money will be used to push Aicuris clinical... more

Epigenomics raises EUR 33,1 million

01.04.10 Berlin - On March 30th, Berlin-based biomarker specialist Epigenomics, successfully raised EUR 33,1 million at the public market through the placement of 14,697,361 new shares. The offering started on March 15 at a subscription... more

New Alzheimer‘s target discovered

25.03.10 Leuven/Munich – Researchers in the EU-funded Neuro.GSK3 project have determined that neuron loss in course of Alzheimer’s disease is caused by the brain’s own immune cells, the microglia (Nature Neuroscience,... more