Life science & Biotechnology
Frankfurt as an innovative location for business and technology makes companies feel at home here under these ideal conditions for the life science sector: more than 100 life science and biotechnology companies are already based here and have created the best possible conditions for co-operation. A varied training and research landscape provides the ideal basis for research and development. The FIZ Frankfurter Innovation Centre Biotechnology connects consistent marketing strategy with excellent scientific knowledge in the international chemical, pharmaceutical, and financial location FrankfurtRhineMain.
Companies also, of course, benefit from the perfect connections with international transport routes and the proximity to important suppliers’ sales and financial markets.
News
Competence Atlas Hessen-Biotech 2009
shows the spectrum of biotechnology companies in Hessen.
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Optimum network between research, development and production
Germany is one of the leading countries in the biotechnology sector and is second in the world, after the USA, in terms of production. Biotechnology is seen as a promising area for the...
Life science cluster & industrial parks
With ScienceCityFrankfurtRiedberg and four big industrial areas within the city limits, Frankfurt is one of the most important chemicals and life science research and production sites in...
Life science & biotechnology excellence cluster
Excellent research facilities complement the Frankfurt production sites for life science and biotechnology.
Local agglomeration of chemicals, lifescience & biotech cluster in Frankfurt.
Facts & figures
Chemical/Pharmaceutical companies in Frankfurt: 184,
Workforce in the chemical/pharmaceutical industry and related service providers: 10,343.
Biotech companies in the FrankfurtRhineMain region:
- that mainly research, produce or work with biotechnological methods (Category I): 49*
- that supply significant quantities of technical goods or services to the companies in Category I (Category II): 58*
* Source: BioTechnologie Yearbook and Directory edited by BIOCOM AG.
Key players & organisations
Companies
AllessaChemie, Andreae-Noris-Zahn, BasellPolyolefine, BayerCrop Science, Celanese, Clariant, Kuraray, Merz Pharma, Novartis, Sanofi-Aventis, außerdem AeternaZentaris, BioSpring, Lux Biosciences, Biologis, Proteome Sciences und viele weitere Unternehmen haben ihren Sitz in Frankfurt. and many other well known companies have their headquarters in Frankfurt.
FIZ Frankfurt Innovation Centre for Biotechnology (Frankfurt Innovationszentrum Biotechnologie)
The centre offers biotechnology start-ups and other companies an optimum infrastructure with tailor-made office and laboratory facilities for the commercial implementation of their ideas for goods and services. It brings organisations from the finance, pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors together and creates a basis for the successfully marketing of scientific findings. The international research activities of FIZ are focussed principally on the areas: inflammatory diseases, diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), proteomics. With collaboration between theoretical and applied research FIZ offers an elemental module for efficient research for new pharmaceuticals.FIZ is also a platform for a network of international co-operation partners that bring new prospects and entrepreneurial stimulation to the region. The partners are the city of Frankfurt, Frankfurt Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the state of Hesse.