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27/10/2020
Germany sets up cancer research center at four more sites
Germany's National Center for Tumor Diseases (Nationales Zentrum für Tumorerkrankung, NCT) is opening new facilities in Berlin, Cologne/Essen, Tübingen/Stuttgart-Ulm, and Würzburg. The NCT is a key component of cancer research in Germany.
13/10/2020
Competition to spur on innovation
Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has announced the winners of a competition aimed ultimately at helping patients who are waiting for donated organs. The top prizes in the Organersatz aus dem Labor (Laboratory-Grown Replacement Organs) contest were taken by projects …
15/09/2020
Study shows medical biotechnology flourishing in Germany
A Boston Consulting Group (BCG) report indicates that Germany's medical biotechnology industry continues to grow and increase its market share. The survey found that biopharmaceuticals earned EUR 12.7 billion in revenue 2019, or 13 percent more than in the previous year, while the entire …
25/08/2020
Two German cities among global leaders in cancer research
World Health Organization (WHO) statistics show that cancer is the world's second leading cause of death. The WHO estimates the total economic cost of cancer is greater than USD 1.16 trillion worldwide.
18/08/2020
University hospitals play key role in fight against coronavirus in Germany
Germany's teaching hospitals are working together with industry and basic research to devise novel ways to combat and treat COVID-19. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is supporting these efforts with millions of euros in funding.
11/08/2020
German medical biotechnology broadens international cooperation
The German life sciences company CureVac has signed a strategic collaboration agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The accord provides for research, development, manufacture, and commercialization of as many as five messenger RNA (mRNA)-based vaccines and monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) that target …
29/07/2020
Find "health – made in Germany" online with new hospital directory
Patients, their families, and referring doctors can now use a digital guide to find a hospital in Germany. Published by the German Hospital TrustCenter and Information Processing GmbH (DKTiG), the directory offers people at home and abroad a tool for pinpointing the hospital that meets their medical …
21/07/2020
Centogene opens COVID-19 testing facility for travelers
Centogene, which specializes in applying big data and artificial intelligence to design drugs for rare diseases, has opened a coronavirus testing facility at Frankfurt Airport. The Rostock-based company with further operations in Berlin, and Cambridge in the US, cooperated with Lufthansa and Fraport …
14/07/2020
Healthcare focus of EUR 130 billion stimulus package
Germany's federal government has announced a EUR 130 billion stimulus package aimed specifically at boosting innovative technologies, including healthcare. One part of the program includes EUR three billion aimed at furthering digitization of German hospitals and improving hospital infrastructure.
30/06/2020
German medical biotech trailblazing in corona vaccine race
Regulators in Germany and Belgium have given the Tübingen-based biotechnology company CureVac a green light for the start of the Phase 1 clinical trial of its SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate. This trial follows another by BioNTech of Mainz, which launched Phase 1/2 trial of its contender, BNT 162, in …
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