Red Biotechnology

Who would have thought that the tobacco plant could one day help to cure life-threatening illnesses? And that this discovery would come from Saxony-Anhalt? Just like other biotech innovations.

• Almost 1,000 people in Saxony-Anhalt research and work in red biotechnology.
• Protein and active ingredient research in Saxony-Anhalt is concentrated at the Weinberg campus in Halle (Saale). In the technology park, numerous biotechnology companies and research facilities are conducting research.
• Companies around the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg and the Leibniz Institute for Neurobiology are working on the nervous system.
• Beacons: Probiodrug, Scil Proteins, novosom, IMTM (Immune Technologies and Medicine) and KeyNeurotek Pharmaceuticals
• Cluster management by Bio Mitteldeutschland GmbH
• Biotech innovation centre Weinberg Campus Halle with laboratories equipped to high specifications
• Brain research at the highest level (www.zenit-magdeburg.de, www.ifn-magdeburg.de)
• State’s own industry-related venture capital association Good Vent