Sphingotec raises €20 million from HBM and Wellington Partners
German diagnostics company sphingotec GmbH has closed a €20m growth equity financing round led by international healthcare specialist investors HBM and Wellington Partners.
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EU-OPENSCREEN achieves European Research Infrastructure status – fewer barriers in the search for new compounds
The European Commission awards the EU-OPENSCREEN consortium the coveted status of European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC). The consortium brings together the infrastructure of 20 research institutes from currently seven European countries.…
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More Charité Global Health – a new center for global health
Charité Global Health was established to improve global health care delivery. Founded by Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, and with responsibility over both the coordination and development of Charité’s portfolio of global health projects, the…
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More John P. A. Ioannidis will become Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow and start a research group at the QUEST Center of the BIH
In close collaboration with the QUEST Center for Transforming Biomedical Research, John P. A. Ioannidis will establish the Meta Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC B) to identify and maximize the use of best scientific practices in biomedicine…
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More Portrait: 10 Years of The World Health Summit in Berlin
Without politics, medicine quickly reaches its limits. This realization led Professor Detlev Ganten to launch the World Health Summit in 2009 – just in time for the 300th anniversary of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Since then, the goal…
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More Interview: Peter Albiez, Country Manager, Pfizer Germany
Biologist Peter Albiez started his career at Pfizer in 1996 as a pharmaceuticals consultant. Following management positions in sales and marketing, he took over the management of Pfizer's sales organization in 2006. In 2009, he was appointed managing…
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More Adapter for inserting a dental implant
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Today, most dental implants are inserted with an adapter that is directly screwed to the implant. After insertion, the fixing screw has to be carefully unlocked inside the oral cavity to remove the adapter from the implant. This…
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More Method and arrangement for identification and correction of optical aberrations
Challenge
Optical microscopy is an indispensable tool for biomedical research. Yet, the same structures that make biological samples interesting to study under a microscope (such as cells, vasculature and subcellular organelles) scatter light and…
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More TissUse establishes a liver-endocrine tissues multi-organ model for risk assessment with Bayer
Berlin, September 2018. TissUse has signed a collaboration agreement with Bayer to develop a highly innovative liver-endocrine tissues assay using TissUse’s Multi-Organ-Chip (MOC) technology.
Under the terms of the collaboration agreement, TissUse…
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More CAR T cells generated in vivo
In August 2018, two CAR T cell therapeutics obtained marketing authorization from the European Commission. They provide efficacious treatment options for patients suffering from certain forms of leukemia and who have not responded to other treatment…
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