The COVID-19 pandemic is putting our health systems in Europe to the test. Capacity bottlenecks are becoming apparent, as are long-neglected investments in modern infrastructure. As the pandemic does not stop at national borders, cross-border healthcare solutions are more urgent than ever.

Medical Cannabis – Last year, the European Cannabis Association was launched as industry interest group, but than the novel coronavirus pandemic changed everything. European Biotechnology spoke with Rainer Krüger, one of the ECA founders, how the virus changed the schedule and strategy to establish a science-based regulation for medicinal cannabis.

The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating effect on global health and an unprecedented impact on the economy. As the world struggles with the challenges brought on by this pandemic, the threat of the next one is already looming in the form of AMR.

In September, Unilever announced a €1bn investment to improve the sustainability of its cleaning brands from the ground up. European Biotechnology spoke to Dr Neil Parry, R&D programme director of biotechnology and biosourcing at Unilever about the goals of Clean Future.

Abigail Herron from Aviva Investors describes why AMR is a blind spot for investors and which action is needed to change it. 

SPCs offer up to five and a half years of additional protection after patent expiration for pharmaceuticals in order to compensate the patent holder’s inability to exploit their inventions while products undergo lengthy regulatory approvals.

Prior to Danish Genmab A/S’s recent licence option deal with AbbVie Inc, Rentschler Biopharma has extended its collaboration with Genmab. European Biotechnology spoke with Rentschler Biopharma SE’s SVP Global BD Federico Pollano about the CDMO’s expertise in DuoBody® molecules production and the expansion of the CDMO’s U.S. production site in Milford.

If reopening the economy after the prolonged shutdown was the end of the beginning, then the successful development of vaccines and therapeutic antibodies has the potential to be the beginning of the end.

Intellectual Property Providing access to medicines at affordable prices while maintaining incentives for the originators to invest into significant innovations is a balance that’s hard to find. Product hopping is a strategy for originators to minimise the erosion of their sales that has caught the attention of regulators and courts.

Intellectual Property Providing access to medicines at affordable prices while maintaining incentives for the originators to invest into significant innovations is a balance that’s hard to find. Product hopping is a strategy for originators to minimise the erosion of their sales that has caught the attention of regulators and courts.