Dennis L. Kasper to be awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize 2024

20-Sep-2023 - Physician and immunologist Dennis L. Kasper (80) of Harvard Medical School will receive the 2024 Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize, the Scientific Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation announced. Kasper discovered the to date only known words of the biochemical language with which ...

iOmx Therapeutics appoints Dr. Nils Peter Debus as Chief Business Officer

06-Sep-2023 - iOmx Therapeutics AG (iOmx), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing cancer therapeutics based on next generation immune checkpoint targets, announced the appointment of Dr. Nils Peter Debus as Chief Business Officer (CBO) to drive the company’s new stage of growth. Dr. Debus is an ...

EVIDENT Corporation Appoints New CEO and COO

16-Aug-2023 - Evident Corporation announced the appointment of William Wesley “Wes” Pringle as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Hiroyuki Yoshimoto as President and Chief Operating Officer (COO). Effective immediately, Wes takes over for Evident’s interim CEO Eric Anderson. Wes has an impressive 30-year career ...

BioGaia appoints Theresa Agnew as new CEO

09-Aug-2023 - BioGaia´s board of directors has appointed Theresa P. Agnew as the new chief executive officer. Theresa Agnew is a global business leader with consumer healthcare, OTC, and medical device experience from leading companies such as GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Essilor and Johnson & Johnson. She has ...

Samanta Cimitan Appointed Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Celonic

09-Aug-2023 - Celonic Group has appointed Dr. Samanta Cimitan as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Celonic Group, a subsidiary of the independent and privately owned J.RETTENMAIER & Söhne Company (JRS Group). Samanta succeeds Dr. Konstantin Matentzoglu, who will step down after 9 years as CEO. During ...

leon-nanodrugs appoints Dr. Hans Frickel as Chief Executive Officer

20-Jul-2023 - leon-nanodrugs GmbH (“LEON”), the leading enabler of nano technology for the pharmaceutical industry, announced today the appointment of Dr. Hans Frickel as CEO, effective July 1, 2023. Dr. Hans Frickel, a trained pharmacist and industrial manager, brings more than 20 years of experience in ...

CureVac Announces Update to the Management Team

Chief Scientific Officer resigned

18-Jul-2023 - CureVac N.V. announced that Dr. Igor Splawski, CureVac’s Chief Scientific Officer,has stepped down effective July 14, 2023 to return to early-stage research in the United States. During the search for a successor, CureVac’s Chief Development Officer, Dr. Myriam Mendila, will head the advancement ...

Future Insight Prize 2023 Awarded to Khalid Salaita for Early Detection of Pandemics

Khalid Salaita awarded a research grant for the development of sensors to detect pathogens automated by DNA motors

13-Jul-2023 - Merck awarded Khalid Salaita, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A., with the Future Insight Prize 2023 worth € 500,000 for research on a pandemic early alert system. Salaita’s group is developing a novel platform technology ...

Innovation Award awarded for breakthrough in X-Ray Fluorescence Tracking for Medical Imaging

Florian Grüner from the University of Hamburg receives the Innovation Award for Synchrotron Radiation

30-Jun-2023 - Grüner, professor at the University of Hamburg and at the Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL), a cooperation between DESY, the University of Hamburg and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, has been honored for advancements in the field of in-situ and in-vivo tracking using advanced X-ray ...

Eppendorf Award for Young European Investigators 2023 goes to Maurice Michel, Sweden

„These ground-breaking discoveries may have far-reaching applications in the treatment of cancer or age-related degeneration“

27-Jun-2023 - This year, the Hamburg based life sciences company Eppendorf SE is awarding its research prize for the 28th time. The independent jury chaired by Prof. Reinhard Jahn selected Dr. Maurice Michel, Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden as the winner of the Eppendorf ...