Archive
February 2020
International Council of Biotech Associations (ICBA) and EuropaBio National Associations Council (NAC) convene in London
The EuropaBio National Associations Council (NAC) and the International Council of Biotech Associations (ICBA) met in London on the invitation of the UK BioIndustry Association (BIA).
February 2020
Sustainability through biotechnology – celebrating “101 years of biotechnology”
In 2019, BIO Deutschland marked the hundredth anniversary of the coining of the term “biotechnology” by celebrating “100 years of biotechnology”.
January 2020
BIO Deutschland statement on adoption of the National Bioeconomy Strategy
The Federal Cabinet has adopted the new National Bioeconomy Strategy, which was jointly presented by Federal Ministers Anja Karliczek and Julia Klöckner in Berlin on 15 January. The aim of the strategy, which is underpinned by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, is to drive forward the bio- and knowledge-based economy in Germany. BIO Deutschland welcomes that the new National Bioeconomy Strategy has been launched and adopted by consensus of all the ministries involved.
January 2020
ISO/TC Biotechnology convenes in Toronto, Canada
The work of the international standards committee for biotechnology has picked up pace. The experts gathered in Toronto in early December 2019 to discuss the progress of the various projects that the committee’s five working groups are working on. BIO Deutschland is represented on the committee by Michael Kahnert.
December 2019
21st CEO & CFO Meeting in the Bergisches Land
At the 21st CEO & CFO Meeting, senior executives from the biotechnology industry met this year in the rustically remodeled Hotel Land Gut Höhne in Mettmann near Düsseldorf.
December 2019
Round table meeting on new breeding techniques
In early December representatives from an alliance of 23 associations from the biotech, agriculture and food industries, to which BIO Deutschland also belongs, met in Berlin.
December 2019
Meeting with the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister Volkmar Wissing
The Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Economic Affairs, Transport and Agriculture and Deputy Minister President, Volker Wissing, met with Claus Kremoser (Phenex Pharmaceuticals), Sierk Poetting (BioNTech) and Cay Frederic Horstmann (BIO Deutschland) in Mainz in December for an exchange on biotechnology.
November 2019
German government’s Pharma Dialogue focuses on technology transfer and translation
On 4 November, the German government held the third round of top-level discussions as part of its Pharma Dialogue. At the beginning of the meeting, Sabine Weiss, Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Health (BMG), announced that this would be last meeting at this level during the current legislative period and that the issues discussed would now be followed up at the technical level.
November 2019
BIO Deutschland at the “2019 Sino-German Bioeconomy and Biomedicine Conference” in China
At the invitation of the Gongshu district, located in the city of Hangzhou in southeast China, BIO Deutschland presented the German bioeconomy at the “2019 Sino-German Bioeconomy and Biomedicine Conference”.
November 2019
Delegation of the International Council of Biotech Associations visits Geneva
In its role as the collective voice of the international biotechnology industry, the International Council of Biotechnology Associations (ICBA) organised its third delegation trip to Geneva.
October 2019
Ministerial meeting held on the Industrial Bioeconomy Dialogue Platform
Economics Minister Peter Altmaier and Research Minister Anja Karliczek attended the meeting. Also present from the two ministries were Director-Generals Winfried Horstmann (BMWi) and Volker Rieke (BMBF), the relevant Heads of Division and their staff, as well as industry representatives.