FGK expands eastwards
01.02.10 Prague – After increasing its investment in mid-January, full-service provider CRO FGK Clinical Research GmbH has become a major shareholder in the Czech contract research organization Avemedica s.r.o. Financial details were not... morePolpharma bids for Bioton
01.02.10 Warsaw – Polish pharmaceutical firm Polpharma has sought approval for its acquisition of parts of Polish blue-chip Bioton S.A. Polpharma made the bid on the last day of 2009. The case is pending. In November 2009, Bioton signed a... morePfizer selects ChemAxon
01.02.10 Budapest – ChemAxon, a specialist for chemical informatics software for the life sciences industry, has entered into an agreement with Pfizer. Under the terms of the agreement, Chemaxon will provide its Markush searching and... moreNew antibody specialist sets up shop outside Prague
01.02.10 Pilzen – German antibody drug development and discovery firm Affimed Therapeutics AG (Heidelberg) has spun-out all of its antibody discovery activities into a new Czech subsidiary – AbCheck s.r.o., which is located in Pilzen.... moreRNA feels the cold in plants
01.02.10 Warsaw – Researchers at the Polish Academy of Sciences have shed new light on how plants adapt their flowering to climate. According to the team under Szymon Swiezewsk (Nature 462, 799-802), the plants use a kind of cold sensor... more
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