Archive
February 2009
Genetic Diagnostics Law: Letter to the Federal Minister of Health, Ulla Schmidt
Following the associations’ hearing on the Genetic Diagnostics Law, BIO Deutschland wrote to the Federal Minister for Health, Ulla Schmidt, in February. In its letter, the association asked the Minister, as a representative of the Federal Government, to ensure that a practical and future-oriented Genetic Diagnostics Law be implemented...
February 2009
Meeting of the Working Group on Health Policy in Munich
In the middle of February, BIO Deutschland’s Working Group on Health Policy met at MediGene AG in Munich. Topics on the agenda included the latest revision to the Medication Law and the measures to be undertaken by the association in the light of the cabinet resolution...
February 2009
British and Spanish Biotech Organisation to Attend this Year’s Business Development Conference on 24 and 25 June in Munich
"Best Times for Good Deals? How Biotech and Pharma Could Now Be Partners" is the title of the international business development conference to be held on 24 and 25 June in Munich. The conference is co-organised by BIO Deutschland and Emerging Biopharmaceutical Enterprises (EBE) and will take place for the third time...
January 2009
German BioRegions Council Joins BIO Deutschland
The German BioRegions Council, which currently represents some thirty BioRegions, aims to strengthen the sector both within Germany and abroad...
January 2009
Genetic Diagnostics Draft Law: Reading in the Bundestag
BIO Deutschland attended a reading of the Genetic Diagnostics Draft Law at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Health at the Bundestag...
January 2009
Revision of the Medication Law: Hearing at the German Federal Ministry of Health
BIO Deutschland demands greater inclusion of the interests of innovative small and medium-sized biotechnology enterprises in the revision of the Medication Law...
January 2009
Animal Welfare: Meeting of Experts at the German Federal Ministry of Research
The objective of the meeting held on 22 January 2009 at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, which was attended by around twenty representatives of industry associations, and scientific institutions and councils, was to make a preliminary review of the statements that had been submitted...
January 2009
Biosecurity: Meeting of Experts at the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs
At the invitation of the German Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs, more than thirty representatives from ministries, federal authorities and industry associations took part in a discussion to prepare for the bilateral US-German exchange of views on the prospects and risks regarding synthetic biology...
January 2009
Visit by the Chinese Delegation: Joint Working Group
At the time of the visit to Germany by the Premier of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China, Wen Jiabao, the Chinese-German Working Group on Biotechnology and Medical Technology met on 29 January...
January 2009
Eva Luise Köhler Receives Donation from the Biotech Industry
BIO Deutschland donated the entire proceeds from a benefit event - more than € 18,000 - to the German Alliance for Rare Diseases (ACHSE). Eva Luise Köhler, First Lady and the patron of ACHSE, received the cheque at the beginning of January in Bellevue Palace in Berlin, the residence of the President of Germany...
October 2008
Sector calls for a change in thinking
So is the glass half-full, or is it half-empty? Germany’s biotech sector couldn’t formulate a clear response to that question at the Biopolitics Conference in the framework of the BIOTECHNICA 2008, but debate between entrepreneurs and policymakers was passionate...
September 2008
Help for German biotech companies in doing business in China
While there are certainly unforeseen challenges in doing business with China, the country also offers vast opportunities. For this reason, the Federal Government has been endeavouring for years to intensify trade relations between the various sectors in both nations.
August 2008
BIO Deutschland accompanies government delegation to China
The founding meeting of the German-Chinese Working Group on the Medical Sector and Biotechnology was held at the end of June. The meeting was chaired by the Deputy Head of the Industrial Policy Department at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Dr Manfred Schubert, and the Deputy Director of the High-Tech Industry Department at the National Development and Reform Commission, Mr Ren Zhiwu.
July 2008
Statement by BIO Deutschland on the Genetic Diagnostics Law
At the end of July, a hearing on the Draft Genetic Diagnostics Law was held in Bonn, prompting BIO Deutschland to make a statement in which it asked for improvements to be made to the German Federal Health Ministry’s draft...
July 2008
BIO Deutschland Attends the Experts’ Meeting on Advanced Technologies at the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research
BIO Deutschland was invited to a meeting at the Biotechnology Department of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as a representative of the "young biotechnology industry" to discuss central issues concerning advanced technologies...