Synthesizing fine chemicals: Technological Advance in Production of Pharmaceuticals

04-Oct-2024 - Production of fine chemicals such as those used in pharmaceuticals is typically complex and laborious. An interdisciplinary team of Fraunhofer researchers worked together across different projects to devise a method modeled on a cascade, in which multiple successive stages of synthesis proceed ...

Bavarian biotechnology grows and achieves record financing

11 start-ups and two relocations show start-up momentum

09-Jul-2024 - At this year's BayOConnect conference, BioM presented his latest annual report "Biotech in Bavaria 2023/24 - Incubating Science for Health". With the report, the Biotech Cluster Development Organization presented the current biotech figures as well as developments and successes of the Bavarian ...

Klaus Grohe Prize goes to Yimon Aye

50,000 euros for groundbreaking research into cell communication

28-Jun-2024 - Professor Dr. Yimon Aye, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, will be awarded the Klaus Grohe Prize 2024. The award, worth 50,000 euros, is one of the most highly endowed prizes for medicinal chemistry in Europe. It is awarded by the Klaus Grohe Foundation, which is part ...

Life Sciences organizations expect more than one-fifth of revenue to come from connected health in the next five years

Generative AI has the potential to add value throughout the healthcare value chain

21-Jun-2024 - The majority (63%) of life sciences organizations, across biopharma and medtech, have connected health products already on the market or under development. Irrespective of their stage of product development, life sciences organizations anticipate that connected health will contribute more than ...

ACHEMA 2024 sets the tone for a more sustainable and competitive process industry

17-Jun-2024 - At ACHEMA 2024, the world's leading trade show for the process industries, 2,842 exhibitors from 56 nations showed 106,001 participants from 141 countries the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food processing industries at the Frankfurt exhibition ...

A better route to benzocyclobutenes, sought-after buildingblocks for drugs

Scripps Research chemists devise a new, C-H activation-based method for the synthesis of BCBs

16-May-2023 - Scripps Research chemists have solved a long-standing problem in the field of pharmaceutical chemistry with a relatively simple and controllable method for making benzocyclobutenes (BCBs)—a class of reactive compounds that are highly valued as building blocks for drug molecules, but have been ...

ACHEMA 2022 offers new impulses for the process industry

Final Report ACHEMA 2022

29-Aug-2022 - At ACHEMA 2022, the world's leading trade show for the process industry, over 2,200 exhibitors from more than 50 countries showcased the latest equipment and innovative processes for the chemical, pharmaceutical and food industries at the Frankfurt fairgrounds from 22 to 26 August. Whether it was ...

WITec announces Paper Award 2022 winners

The prizes go to scientists from the US, Germany and China

10-Aug-2022 - The WITec Paper Awards 2022 have been given to scientists from the US, Germany and China, recognizing their work in cement chemistry, pharmacy and methane hydrate chemistry. Every year, the WITec Paper Award highlights three scientific publications that contain data acquired with a WITec ...

Merck Announces Collaboration with Agilent Technologies

Collaboration will help enable real-time release and Bioprocessing 4.0

15-Jun-2022 - Merck announced that it has entered a collaboration with Agilent Technologies to advance Process Analytical Technologies (PAT). PAT, which is strongly encouraged by global regulatory authorities, is a key enabler for real-time release and Bioprocessing 4.0. “The biopharmaceutical industry is on a ...

Breakthrough in the production of three-dimensional molecular structures

New dimensions in organic chemistry through light-mediated synthesis

07-Apr-2021 - A major goal of organic and medicinal chemistry in recent decades has been the rapid synthesis of three-dimensional molecules for the development of new drugs. These drug candidates exhibit a variety of improved properties compared to predominantly flat molecular structures, which are reflected ...