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28.03.2012
With the assistance of federal government support strategies, industrial biotechnology is taking on an increasingly important role. This is underlined by the response to a brief parliamentary enquiry from the SPD fraction in the Bundestag.
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17.12.2011
Five top researchers in the life sciences are among the winners of the 2012 Leibniz Prize. A neurophysiologist and a systems biologist from Berlin, a biochemist in Martinsried, and two immunologists from Bonn will share the prize, worth a total of 2.5 million euros.
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23.07.2011
Every year, the Science Council appraises research buildings planned for construction at universities in Germany. Biotechnology is particularly well represented this year, making up seven of the 16 projects put forward for funding.
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15.07.2011
What will the biotechnology of the future look like? What steps in research and development will be required before this can be achieved? These are the kinds of questions being posed by the strategic process Biotechnology 2020+, which was launched by the Federal Ministry of Research in 2010. The recent second Annual Congress took a first stock of the process.
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30.06.2011
It's official: The six German Centers For Health Research have been given the starting signal to begin their work. The centers carry great expectations for the fight against common diseases; above all, it is hoped that results will now be transferred more speedily and smoothly from the laboratories to the patients.
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30.03.2011
Biotechnologists today use cells or microorganisms to produce protein-based drugs such as antibodies. With the research project ‘Biomolecules from the Production Line’, Fraunhofer researchers are now hoping to establish cell-free biotechnology as a new technology.
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14.01.2011
Medicine is the big issue of 2011: The Science Year is this time dedicated to humans and their health, and the Federal Government is hoping to bring a new emphasis to funding policy with its billions-strong supporting programme for health research.
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20.12.2010
The federal government has adopted a new health research program. The BMBF is investing around 5.5 billion euros in therapeutic approaches to common diseases, personalised medicine, and nutrition research up to 2014.
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19.11.2010
The Federal Government is planning to make Germany a pioneer in the biobased economy, and is driving forward research with billions-strong funding across four ministries. 10 November in Berlin saw the official launch of the National Research Strategy BioEconomy 2030, and biotechnology is set to play an important role.
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16.11.2010
After two years of preparation, the Federal Ministry of Research-initiated German Center for Diabetes Research in Munich has officially begun work. The association bundles expertise from five research institutions in Munich, Düsseldorf, Potsdam, Dresden, and Tübingen.
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