Neovacs appoints Piers Whitehead as VP of Corporate Development

Co-founder and CEO of AC Immune to retire after a 23-year

The search for a successor is underway

Extending organ viability with marine biology

French marine biologist selected as finalist for the European Inventor Award 2026

Belén Garijo appointed as Director and Chief Executive Officer of Sanofi

The former Merck President and CEO brings experience transforming a global pharma group

Kai Beckmann to become Merck's new CEO on May 1, 2026

At the 31st Annual General Meeting, Belén Garijo symbolically handed over leadership of the DAX company to her successor after five years

Bioengineering fills new CEO position after Group takeover

With Jiang Pei, the Board of Directors is relying on a Morimatsu Group insider to strengthen the Swiss site in the long term

Anaveon brings in ex-CureVac executive to lead immunology push

Tony Hyman starts as EMBL Director General

Former EMBL group leader returns to lead the organisation’s six sites at a time of change and opportunity in life sciences

VTU Engineering Germany gets new managing director

Dr. Mickael Planasch takes over the management together with Hubert Apfelmaier and is to lead the German business into a new growth phase

The Writing On the Genes and the Tumor’s Power Grid

This year's Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prizes was awarded at Frankfurt's Paulskirche

Roland Fornika elected President of FECCIA

VAA Executive Board takes over leadership of 100,000 chemical and pharmaceutical professionals in Europe

BioNTech co-founders establish new biotech company

Management transition by end of 2026

Alexandra Knauer mit Pittcon Heritage Award ausgezeichnet

Visa problem prevents arrival: KNAUER managing director honored via video

Change of management at abberior instruments

Meiko Fiedler takes over as CEO

Axplora invests millions in lyophilization for ADC manufacturing

CDMO specialist expands ADC capacities in Le Mans and appoints François Houbart as new site manager

Verovaccines Positions for Growth: Management Transition to Accelerate Value Creation

The company is approaching a key regulatory inflection point, with its first vaccine candidate under review by the EMA

Former Merck boss becomes new Sanofi CEO

Sanofi parts ways with CEO Paul Hudson

Change on Endress+Hauser Supervisory Board

Matthias Altendorf leaves Endress+Hauser after nearly four decades

New management at Ruland Engineering & Consulting GmbH

Founders hand over management

Generation change at AZO

The son takes on the role of CEO and will manage the family business together with his father in future

Pulling the plug on tumours: Varun Venkataramani receives Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Early Career Award

Cancer cells tap into the nervous system's power grid: Heidelberg neurologist co-founded the research field of “Cancer Neuroscience"

Coffee doesn’t just wake you up — it may help protect your body from aging

New research identifies a key biological pathway that could explain how coffee helps protect against aging and chronic disease.

No need to pull all-nighters here: this laboratory plans its own experiments

KIWI Biolab at TU Berlin combines robots, analysis devices and AI - and uses them to carry out even complex experiments fully automatically

More immune protection, less dominance: A new phase in the corona-development?

For the first time, no new variant is replacing the dominant strains – BA.3.2 mainly infects children

One Molecule, Two Effects: A New Drug Concept to Treat Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes

Low Dose via a “Trojan Horse”

Miltenyi Biotec expands Cologne production site for clinical reagents

Milestone for biotechnology made in Germany: More capacity for cell and gene therapies

Cytospire Therapeutics announces oversubscribed £61 million Series A financing

London-based start-up aims to activate gamma-delta T cells in both the blood and the tumour to fight cancer

Egg consumption is associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s Disease

Eating one egg per day for at least five days a week reduces risk of Alzheimer’s by up to 27%

The ‘Ozempic Era’ could shift blame for obesity from individuals to the food industry

How weight-loss injections could reinforce the perception of ultra-processed foods as addictive substances

Ultra-processed foods damage your focus even if you eat healthy

One extra bag of chips a day reduces your ability to focus and raise dementia risk factors regardless of diet quality

Parents' consumption of artificial sweeteners could affect their children's metabolism

Sucralose and stevia alter gene expression even in the second generation

1.7 trillion euros of high-tech potential lies untapped in Germany

Germany is at risk of falling behind in the technology competition - but six key technologies could change that

Biotech start-up TIBEAY secures 35 million euros for first therapy for severe traumatic brain injury

Ronopterin to pharmacologically slow down neurological sequelae after traumatic brain injury for the first time

Green hydrogen from sunlight and water - without electrolyzers and without electricity

Photreon, a spin-off from KIT, is developing a photoreactor panel that enables direct solar hydrogen production

Future Foods Lab: Nomad Foods advances two startups to concept development

Swedish clean-label pizza brand For Real! Foods and Spanish functional snack maker Mia Puccia enter the next innovation phase

The olive as a laboratory

A new analytical approach predicts the quality of olive oil before it is extracted

Festo is cutting approximately 1,300 jobs in Germany

Family-owned company responds to intensifying competition in Asia and geopolitical crises with a global transformation program

Less hunger, more environmental problems?

Study investigates tradeoffs between human health and sustainability

Common structural analysis of interfacial water is inadequate, according to a new study

Water molecules at the air-water interface characterised layer by layer for the first time

Short circuits in solid-state batteries: the mechanism finally proven

Using cryo-electron microscopy under vacuum, a Max Planck team has resolved a decade-long debate on dendrite-induced cracking

New research finds that almost all plant-based meat alternatives contain mycotoxins

Grains, legumes and seeds used in vegan products are particularly prone to mould exposure during cultivation and storage

For the first time, researchers are peering inside record-breaking superconductors

Atomic-level insights into lanthanum superhydrides are expected to enable more energy-efficient technologies in the long term

Water splitting catalyst creates hydrogen at low temperatures

Birmingham researchers’ novel way of producing hydrogen fuel has a lower cost than existing methods

Reduce, remove and modify: Research team "cuts" wheat chromosomes to size

Study paves the way for faster breeding

IBU-tec is setting up LFP production without Chinese technology

New plant to produce 15,000 tonnes of European battery material, with a significantly lower carbon footprint than Chinese processes

Starch Instead of Plastic: Colombian Startup Reinventing Fruit Packaging

Natupla: From ISC3 start-up of the month to a pioneer in starch-based, biodegradable plastics

From lab to industry: 3D printing accelerates the future of lithium batteries

A major review highlights the potential, the pitfalls, and different perspectives of 3D printing's role in manufacturing lithium batteries

Sustainable chemistry: iron replaces precious metals in catalysis

Researchers develop iron(I) source for catalytic reactions - approach aims to make chemical processes more sustainable

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

"This was a last-minute rescue in a procedure that was unusual in every respect"

Are critical raw materials for EVs less critical than previously thought?

A 15-year analysis identifies four innovation leaps that repeatedly reshaped which raw materials the market relies on

Vacuum pump without motor: Thin films - the stuff new pumps are made of

Research team presents vacuum pump prototype with double film drive - spin-off mateligent brings the technology to industry