Helping the human body to fight diseases

Research into and development of mRNA-based therapeutics by a consortium of universities, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, and BioNTech

16-Jun-2023 - A new funding program of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) aiming to improve production capacities and fostering research into and the development of specialty lipids and other auxiliaries used in mRNA vaccines and mRNA pharmaceutical will give funding to ...

Microreactor for synthesis with Grignard reagents

Continuous process control: faster, safer, cleaner

06-Jan-2021 - In 1912, Victor Grignard was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of what came to be known as Grignard reagents. Since then, these compounds have come to play a key role in the chemical and pharmaceutical industries. Now, in a development by Fraunhofer researchers, a new type of ...

European collaborative research to develop lab-on-chip system for cheap and fast cancer diagnosis

03-Sep-2010 - At the Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference (EMBC) in Buenos Aires (Argentina), imec and its project partners announce the launch of the European Seventh Framework Project MIRACLE. The MIRACLE project aims at developing an operational lab-on-chip for the isolation and detection of ...