Research reform

10.12.11 Athens – Greek researchers have called on members of the international research community to sensitise their governments to the problems in their country’s research landscape. “The orderly execution of the badly needed reforms... more

Getting paid

01.10.11 Athens – The supply of innovative bio­pharmaceuticals to Greek hospitals has broken down. Swiss Roche AG has pulled the plug by stopping delivery of drugs for cancer and other diseases to some state-funded hospitals. Among them... more

Financial crisis is not over yet

10.06.11 Athens – The situation in the pharmaceutical market in Greece increasingly looks to be spiralling out of control. According to the Financial Times, the Greek government already appears to be unable to pay healthcare companies... more

Novo Nordisk returns to Greece

10.07.10 Athens – The Novo Nordisk Group has restarted sales of its insulin products in Greece. At the beginning of June, the Danish pharmaceutical company had pulled out 17 products – mostly insulin or insulin analogues – after the Greek... more

Engineering how mosquitos smell

11.03.10 Athens – A EUR2.5m EU research project targeting olfaction in the malaria carrier Anopheles gambiae is to be coordinated by Greek researchers from the Institute of Bio­logy at the Demokritos National Centre of Scientific Research... more