On 20 March 2013, BIO Deutschland attended the meeting of the National Associations Council (NAC) and the Healthcare Council (HC) in Brussels. Peter Heinrich represented the association at the board meeting.
The 13th meeting of the Working Group on Diagnostics was held in Berlin on 8 March 2013. The agenda included discussion on the European Commission’s proposal for a regulation on in vitro diagnostic medical devices and on the individual health services that German doctors and psychotherapists can offer their patients with statutory health insurance on a private-patient basis.
Around 80 finance experts from the biotech scene recently discussed the current financing situation for innovations in Germany at the seventh biotech finance meeting, which was organised by BIO Deutschland and took place in Berlin. Finance was up by over 50 per cent in 2012 compared with the previous year, from some €142 million in 2011 to €300 million in 2012.
Dr Viola Bronsema, Managing Director of BIO Deutschland, attended the EuropaBio conference in Brussels on 18 March and participated in the National Associations Council, the Healthcare Council and the Emerging Enterprises Council meetings...
On 29 February, the board of BIO Deutschland, the chairpersons of the working groups and of the BioRegions’ working team met at Lake Starnberg near Munich to discuss the association’s strategy for the coming years...
