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Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof announces 15 doctoral fellowships
SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, is announcing 15 doctoral fellowships to begin on October 1st, 2013. The program offers a structured, three-year period of…
Adlershof Special 27: Biotechnology
Innovative Analytics:
Calibrated to success // Innovation thanks to analytics // Diagnosis: Fatigue // Stability and Growth // Analyse, identify, quantify // Kneading and correlating // Protein snippets in the fight against cancer //…
Calibrated to success
By Mehran Khajooei, Eppendorf Vertrieb Deutschland GmbH:
For sixty six years now, Eppendorf has been a reputed premium provider of equipment, systems and consumables for laboratory work and research. Precision, reliability, experience and innovation are concepts that form…
Innovation thanks to analytics
Adlershof turns into “Analytic City”:
Analytics has a long tradition in Adlershof. The Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften (ISAS) and the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM) are working towards refining this profile and…
Diagnosis: fatigue
Adlershof‘s JPT Peptide Technologies and Charité develop biomarker test :
About 300,000 people in Germany suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome – presumably, because it is difficult to diagnose. This might change, however, because now a biomarker test is being developed specifically for this…
Stability and Growth
In the lobby, ASCA Managing Director Christine Wedler got talking to her neighbour. The Institut für Produktqualität had just moved into a new laboratory in Adlershof. There she learned that reference substances were…
Analyse, identify, quantify
Adlershof biotech companies have adopted a powerful position on the world market with their innovative analytical methods for protein manufacture:
Proteins are the elementary building blocks of life. Yet there is much about these substances that is yet to be researched. Especially in the human body, molecules and their interactions are complex, and often too…
Kneading and correlating
Drug delivery systems by Adlershof company TheraKine work like a Trojan horse :
It’s a little like a chocolate factory in Andreas Voigt’s laboratories: Powders are poured, mixed, and kneaded by hand to specific consistencies. Instead of gustatory delights, however, this production targets…
Protein snippets in the fight against cancer
Adlershof company 3B Pharmaceuticals develops peptide agents for the treatment of cancer and haemophilia :
Jan Michel travels a lot. Just recently, the commercial manager of 3B Pharmaceuticals (3BP) was again attending a pharmaceuticals trade fair in Barcelona. During tightly organized half hour meetings he presented his…
Adlershof in Figures
April 2013:
Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany. Embedded in an overall urban development concept, this integrated Science, Business and Media location has been growing on an area of 4.2…
SCIENION and Innopsys agree on a joint product offering for reverse phase protein arrays
Added value for customers combining technologies of both companies into a complete assay solution:
SCIENION AG and France-based Innopsys, a manufacturer of high resolution microarray scanners, today announced a cooperation agreement on a seamless integration of its microarray production and detection…
Adlershofer Cutting- Edge Drug Delivery Company TheraKine in Joint Venture with RBCC
As part of a bold expansion into the $60 billion global drug delivery market, Rainbow BioSciences, the biotech division of Rainbow Coral Corp. (RBCC), today announced it has formed a new partnership to solve the…
Spanish Crisis does not effect LUM products
LUM awarded Spanish partner Best Distributor 2012:
From March 4-6 the 14th International Sales Meeting took place at the new headquarters of LUM GmbH in Berlin-Adlershof. LUM, market leader in analytical instruments for direct and accelerated characterization of …
New centrifuge technology will enable multi-sample adhesive and composite strength testing
85% time saving:
A new analytical centrifuge is being used to test adhesive bonds, coatings and composites. BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing’s scientists had the idea that samples should no longer be clamped,…
Adlershof Special 26: IT and Media
Advantage cooperation // Healthy data exchange // Self sufficient components for the homes of the future // Training and flying // Getting off the ground // IT from Adlershof enhances TV images // Cash, crime and…
Advantage cooperation
Adlershof as a functioning IT network:
Berlin is one of Europe's prime IT-locations. In Adlershof alone there are about eighty companies working in IT and media. They profit from their contacts with science and trade partners and from a wide range of…
Healthy data exchange
Adlershof's solutions in medical engineering:
Information and telecommunications technology is also adopting an ever greater role in health care – and not least of all because new diagnostics and therapies generate huge amounts of data. Adlershof companies…
Self sufficient components for the homes of the future
GFaI research introduces greater flexibility to facilities:
“The utilisation of ambient energy represents a new quality,” replied Professor Alfred Iwainsky when asked about the role of IT technology in the homes of the future. The physics graduate is Chair of GFaI, an…
Training and flying
Social business and e-learning modules:
Like learning, working nowadays need no longer be bound to the one fixed location. This independence of geographical locations promotes freedom in the choice of time and place, but also gives rise to organizational…
Getting off the ground
Humboldt Innovation has a strong focus on Adlershof:
Functional fixedness can be expressed as follows: “We’ve always done it that way, why should we do it any differently now?” Ranking beside the lack of funds or skills to launch, market, or push through an invention in…