Syntaxin appoints Executive Chairman

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"

Change in the executive management at Greiner Bio-One

Former FUCHS manager to lead medical technology division through next phase of growth

Change of leadership at ViscoTec

Technical Managing Director hands over responsibility

Die Köttermann Group appoints Joerg Hoffmann as CEO

Experienced industry leader set to drive growth and innovation across expanding markets

NanoTemper Introduces New Executive Leadership Team to Advance Biophysical Innovation

Team combines expertise in drug discovery and bioprocessing to accelerate therapy development

Start-up AveThera acquires Fraunhofer site for biologics production

The young biotech company takes over pharmaceutical biotechnology unit including employees

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

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

Sucralose and stevia alter gene expression even in the second generation

Helium shortage jeopardizes pharmaceutical production

Blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has consequences for drug production and drug supply

A copper complex kills cancer cells 100 times more effectively than conventional chemotherapy drugs

Copper overload kills cancer cells

How old are we really?

Blood test reveals biological age

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

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

New treatment approach against sepsis discovered

New process developed to produce universal blood plasma for all blood groups

Revolution in emergency medicine

Dynamic42 and EPO Close the Gap in Brain Cancer Research

Strategic collaboration integrates organ-on-chip technology into preclinical glioblastoma research to improve translational relevance

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

Biodegradable barrier coating developed for paper packaging

Paulaner develops a beer specifically for the Chinese market for the first time

Paulaner drives international growth through a strategic partnership with Tsingtao in China

The olive as a laboratory

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

DOMO chemical plant in Leuna saved

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

Good Friday fish in the sustainability check

Electrochemical Process Enables Recovery of Valuable Raw Materials

Danone and Arcor form dairy joint venture in Argentina

The new entity combines Danone Argentina, Mastellone Hermanos and a shared logistics subsidiary under equal 50/50 ownership

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

Ever heard of the barunut?

gebana brings the baruna nut to Europe as a novel food

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

Amazonian cocoa could become a superfood

Brazilian researchers discovered glycine betaine and proline in unroasted beans as natural cell protectors

Scientists discover new way metals bind oxygen, possibly starting ‘new chapter’ in chemistry

Neodymium binds dioxygen via pi interactions — a first for lanthanide chemistry

Food scientists develop new antimicrobial for cleaning and sanitizing dry-food processing equipment

New method uses significantly less water and is less flammable

A turning point for Europe’s resource sovereignty: tozero launches production of lithium and other critical raw materials

Industrial demo plant represents one of the fastest scale-ups in battery recycling to date

Conscious, sophisticated enjoyment outlasts the quick rush

BOAR Gin® demonstrates that a decline in alcohol consumption can also offer opportunities for producers of high-quality spirits

Innovative coating for hydrogen components

Further development of titanium coating for composite bipolar plates

Nordzucker’s Finnish subsidiary adjusts its production structure

Suomen Sokeri Oy is discontinuing raw sugar refining at its Porkkala site

New startup aims to replace fossil fuels in industrial process heating

The technology covers temperatures ranging from 30 to 1,000 °C and is designed for use in sectors such as the food industry, the paper industry, and chemical plants

Italian foodtech Foreverland secures €6M to scale industrial cocoa-free ingredient supply

The company is entering the organic space as the first industrial-scale producer of organic cocoa-free chocolate

New lithium-ion battery design could power longer-lasting electric vehicles and portable devices

University of Surrey develops battery anode with near-maximum silicon capacity

German food tech company secures €8 million to combat food waste

Foodforecast aims to scale AI technology for ultra-fresh food