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Life Science Location Vienna
CMI-Workshop27. 5. 2008
Dr. Sabine Ecker,LISA VRwww.lisavr.at
Overview
Life Science Location Vienna
University of Vienna Medical University of ViennaUniversity of Natural Resources and Applied Life SciencesUniversity of Veterinary MedicineVienna University of Technology
Number of scientists ~ 3.800
Number of students ~ 25 000
5 Universities focus on Life Sciences
Research Institutions
Austrian Academy of Sciences:Research Centre for Molecular Medicine (CeMM)Institute of Molecular Biotechnology (IMBA)Gregor Mendel Institute for Molecular Plant Biology (GMI)
Private Research Institution:Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP)
Life Science Location Vienna
Life Science Location Vienna
Baxter: BioScience, plasma products
Boehringer Ingelheim Austria: R&D in oncology, development and production of biopharmaceuticals
Octapharma: R&D and production facility for blood plasma products
Eli Lilly:Vienna School for Clinical Research (VSCR)
Sanochemia: R&D, production
Otto Bock: World market leader in prosthetics Competence Centre for mechatronics
Business Environment
Number of companies: ~ 140
Since 1998 more than 70 companies were founded, mostly supported by federal and regional programmes
Focus: drug development, vaccines and antibiotics, cancer
Number of employees: ~ 9.700
Dynamic start up scene: average age of the companies 4,7 years
Life Science Location Vienna
Life Science Location Vienna
An initiative of the City of Vienna and the Republic of Austria
Central contact and coordination officefor researchers and companies
Financial support of companies by federal and regional programmes(subsidies, guarantees, subsidized loans, financing networks)
International marketingfor the life science location
Networking, PR, Education
LISA Vienna Region
Life Science Locations
Life Science Locations in Vienna
Due to historical reasons LS institutions can be found at various locations across the city
Since the last years five prime locations for life sciences have developed
67.000m2 infrastructure are available at the Campus Vienna Biocenter
Campus Vienna Biocenter
Campus Vienna Biocenter
Foundation in 2003 byFrank Mattner, scientist at IntercellWalter Schmidt and Max Birnstiel, both co-founders of Intercell
FocusTailored-made vaccines against Alzheimer‘s Disease- Clinical Phase I started in summer 2007
Recent SuccessIn April 2006 Affiris raised EUR 8.5 million by the MIG Fonds
Product ranked as “one of the most promising drug entering Phase I trials” by Thomas Scientific
Campus Vienna Biocenter
Affiris
LS Center Muthgasse
University ofNatural Resources
868,110 sq.ft. for offices and labsReady to move in 2009
University ofNatural Resources
f-star GmbH
Founded in 2006
Antibody engineering company: improved therapeutic antibodies and antibody fragments based onits Modular Antibody Technology which allows the introduction of additional binding sites into antibodies and antibody fragments byengineering the non-CDR loops of constant or variable domains
January 2007: 1,5 Mio. Euro - Seed financing
Autumn 2007: 9 Mio. Euro - Series A round financing
March 2008: Opening of a second research site in Cambridge, UK
LS Center Muthgasse
Austrian Center of Biopharmaceutical Technology (ACBT)
Industry-University CooperationBoehringer Ingelheim Austria,Sandoz, IonimedInstitute for Applied Microbiology at the University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences and the Institute of Biochemistry at the University of Innsbruck
Focusoptimization of the production process of recombinant biopharmaceutical proteins
Budget60% federal and regional funding, 40% industrial funding
Cooperation Industry - University
LS Center Muthgasse
Vienna General Hospital
Research & EducationMedical University ViennaCeMM – Center for Molecular Medicine Institut für KrebsforschungLudwig Boltzmann Institute for Cancer ResearchCCRI
CompaniesAvir Greenhills Biotechnology GmbH Biomay AG Bio Life Science Forschungs- u. Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH Emcools AG Labdia Labordiagnostik GmbHTrimed Biotech GmbH
Vienna General Hospital –Vienna’s primary medical research center
Vienna General Hospital
Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group
President: Michael Gnant, MUW
Founded to enhance diagnostics, treatment and aftercare-treatmentof breast and colorectal cancer in Austria
Interdisciplinary cooperation of surgeons, radiologists, oncologistshistopathologists, psychologists, etc.
More than 100 centres all over Austria participate and almost 15.000patients participated in ABCSG studies
Christian Doppler Lab for Immunmodulation
Partners: Institute for Pathophysiology, MUWBiomay AG
Scientific director: Barbara Bohle, MUW
Focus:Type I allergy, an acquired disorder of the specific immune system, is characterized by the production of IgE antibodies directed against environmental antigens such as pollen. It is the aim to develop vac-cines to reduce the production of IgE.
Vienna General HospitalCooperation Industry - University
University of Veterinary Medicine
University of Veterinary Medicine
Founded in 1765 by empress Maria Theresia
New buildings finished in 1996, 2800 students, 750 employees
Focus:Veterinary medicine and related issuesBiotechnology and biomedicine
Home of a number of companies:
Marinomed GmbH – Ocean of Ideas
Founded in 2006
Focus: marine drugs for immunological disorders andinfectious diseases
Basis: marine aquaculture and cell culture systemstony corals, soft corals, anemones, crust anemones and sponges
University of Veterinary Medicine
Thank you for your attention!
www.lisavr.atecker@lisavr.at
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