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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 …
23/06/2020
Germany launches corona app
Germany has launched its corona tracing app. Known as the Corona-Warn-App, the open-source software was downloaded six million times in the first 24 hours after it became available.
16/06/2020
Germany ranked “best to invest” by Site Selection magazine
Site Selection has placed Germany first in its “Global Best to Invest Ranking.” The annual assessment is based on Germany’s “economic and job creation” successes in 2019. Site Selection says the ranking may provide a hint as to which economies will lead global recovery in the wake of the COVID-19 …
09/06/2020
Germany contributes in race to develop COVID vaccine
The number of projects to develop a vaccine for the novel coronavirus continues to grow. Germany is playing a substantial role in the effort, with the German Association of Research-based Pharmaceutical Companies, the vfa, reporting at least seven programs ongoing. The country is also cooperating in …
03/06/2020
Germany goes global in battle against COVID-19
The Erlangen-based company Siemens Healthineers of Erlangen has announced it is shipping its test for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies around the world. The antibody test allows for identification of patients who have developed an adaptive immune response to the virus.
13/05/2020
Germany tests system to ensure timely Covid-19 hospital treatment
Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) are investigating whether sensor monitoring can aid in reducing Covid-19 mortality. The project is part of Germany’s response to the pandemic, the efficacy of which has been praised globally.
07/05/2020
Germany starts clinical trial for new coronavirus vaccine
The Mainz-based life sciences company Biopharmaceuticals New Technologies (BioNTech) has launched its Phase 1/2 trial of its candidate COVID-19 vaccine, BNT 162. BioNTech is cooperating with the US pharmaceuticals’ giant Pfizer, to develop a vaccine against the novel coronavirus, Sars-CoV-2.