Evotec announces CEO transition

Dr Werner Lanthaler to step down as CEO

08-Jan-2024 - Evotec SE announced that after close to 15 years of successful service, CEO Dr Werner Lanthaler has informed the company, that he will not continue to serve until the end of his current term (March 2026), for personal reasons. The Supervisory Board has accepted his resignation from his ...

Tobias Erb receives the Leibniz Award 2024

Innovative, interdisciplinary research approach opens up new possibilities for developing technologies to address the global climate crisis

11-Dec-2023 - Prof. Dr. Tobias Erb, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology and Professor at the University of Marburg, has been awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Leibniz Prize is the most important research award in Germany and ...

How stem cells and immune cells communicate

Lisec Artz Award for Simon Haas: Groundbreaking discovery of an unknown protective mechanism against blood cancer from stem cells

17-Nov-2023 - Blood cancer is often driven by mutations in stem cells, which are key target cells in the search for innovative early-stage therapies. Dr. Simon Haas, head of a lab within the joint research focus of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and the ...

Danaher appoints Christopher Riley to Executive Vice President for Biotechnology

14-Nov-2023 - Danaher Corporation announced that Christopher Rileyhas been appointed by its Board of Directors to be Executive Vice President of Danaher with responsibility for its Biotechnology business, effectiveJanuary 1, 2024. Mr. Riley, currently Vice President and Group Executive of Danaher's Life ...

Lonza manager joins Cellbox Solutions GmbH as new CEO

09-Nov-2023 - Cellbox Solutions GmbH announced that Dr. Hartmut Tintrup has joined Cellbox Solutions GmbH as Chief Executive Officer. Hartmut joins the Cellbox team from Lonza, where he served as Global Head Business Development in the Cell & Gene Technologies Business Unit. He brings more than 20 years of ...

Changes in the management of Hermann Waldner GmbH & Co. KG

New management structure

08-Nov-2023 - Jochen Früh took over the management of Hermann Waldner GmbH & Co KG at the beginning of November. The long-standing Managing Director Karl Angele has retired, but remains a member of the Group's Advisory Board. Jochen Früh, CEO of Waldner Holding, expands his responsibilities and takes over ...

Innovative research aims to improve wound healing and cancer therapy

Freiburg researcher Priscilla Briquez receives ERC Starting Grant for innovative approach to protein engineering

30-Oct-2023 - Jun.-Prof. Dr. Priscilla Briquez, junior professor at the Department of General and Visceral Surgery at the Freiburg University Medical Center and member of the Medical Faculty at the University of Freiburg, has received a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant from the European ...

Eppendorf realigns Management Board structure

The position of the CEO will be filled

13-Oct-2023 - Hamburg-based Eppendorf SE is realigning its Management Board structure and returns to having only one CEO. In addition, the Management Board will be expanded to include the position and function of a Chief Operating Officer (COO). The Supervisory Board of the Eppendorf Group informed about this ...

Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 goes to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier

The laureates’ contributions have enabled the investigation of processes that are so rapid they were previously impossible to follow

04-Oct-2023 - The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2023 to Pierre Agostini (The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA), Ferenc Krausz (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany) and Anne L’Huillier (Lund ...

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman receive Nobel Prize for discoveries in the fight against corona

04-Oct-2023 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has decided to award the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman for their discoveries concerning nucleoside base modifications that enabled the development of effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19. The ...