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Life Sciences Centre Düsseldorf Leading in Science and Business Life Sciences Are Research for Life Life Sciences Centre Düsseldorf leading in science and business Life sciences are research for life. That means using the opportunities offered by science responsibly for the benefit of humans, animals and the environment. 2 3 Düsseldorf: Excellence in life sciences Düsseldorf is the capital of North Rhine-Westphalia and the centre of the BioRiver biotech cluster in the Rhineland. The Düsseldorf region is home to 98 life science companies as well as numerous suppliers and service providers. The Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is the nucleus of Germany’s biotechnology industry. A number of large companies active in the life science sectors, such as Bayer, Henkel, UCB, Medtronic, Janssen, Johnson & Johnson, Monsanto and 3M Medica, are also based in the region. Established companies and start-ups Germany’s most successful biotech companies, such as QIAGEN, Rhein Biotech/Dynavax Europe, Evotec and NewLab BioQuality/Charles River, originated in Düsseldorf. 98 companies in the life science sector, including numerous Japanese and American compa- nies, have settled here. Düsseldorf is situated in the centre of Germany and at the heart of Europe. Düsseldorf Research The Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf is well-known North Rhine-Westphalia and its capital Düsseldorf: for the strength of its research in the field of natural Life Sciences meet Business sciences. Other important research institutions located in Düsseldorf include the German Diabetes Research Institute, the Leibniz-Institut für umweltmedizinische Forschung and the Biomedical Research Centre. › Düsseldorf is the state capital of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), which, with Life Science Center 17.8 million inhabitants, is Germany’s most populous federal state (one fifth The Düsseldorf Life Science Center offers 21,000 m² of all Germans live here) and Europe’s most densely populated region. of flexible-use laboratory and office space. It is sited › With a gross domestic product of 582 billion euros (2012), NRW’s economy ranks internationally even higher than that of European countries like Austria, right next to the university campus and provides space Belgium or Sweden. for both start-ups and established companies. › NRW is home to 70 institutions of higher education, 11 research institutes, 12 Max Planck Institutes, 11 Fraunhofer Institutes, 10 Leibnitz Institutes and Patent law the Jülich Research Centre, one of the largest research centres in Europe. Düsseldorf is one of Europe’s most important centres › NRW has 7 university hospitals and large multispeciality hospitals. for the settlement of patent disputes. A large number › About 360 life science companies, 80 of them dedicated biotech companies, are of judges and law firms specialising in patent law work based in NRW. 38 per cent of these biotech companies have diversified portfolios, here. The Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf’s Centre including enabling technologies, 17 per cent concentrate on industrial biotech- for Intellectual Property Law serves as a point of con- nology and 37 per cent operate in the field of health and medicine. tact for companies and patent agencies. › Dedicated biotechnology companies in NRW generate revenue of approx. 1 billion euro, representing 42 per cent of Federal Germany’s total biotechnology revenue. Also more patent applications are registered in NRW than anywhere Venture capital else in Europe. Düsseldorf can provide young technology companies › The Düsseldorf-based Life Science Center is home to BioRiver – Life Science with much-needed venture capital. The Düsseldorf- im Rheinland e. V. and the BIO.NRW, MedizinTechnik.NRW and NanoMikro- WerkstoffePhotonik.NRW cluster managements; Düsseldorf thus provides the based HHU Pre-Seed Gründerfonds, Business Angel driving force behind development of the Life Sciences Cluster in NRW. Netzwerk BIO.NRW, Sirius Seedfonds Düsseldorf and Sirius EcoTech Fonds Düsseldorf provide effective financing instruments, especially for companies ope- rating in the life science sector. www.sirius-seedfonds.de › Contact | Economic Development www.sirius-ecotechfonds.de www.cedus.hhu.de/finanzierung/hhu-pre-seed-gruenderfonds.html Daniel Adler www.bio.nrw.de/business_angels Office of Economic Development Burgplatz 1, 40213 Düsseldorf Phone +49 211 89-97688 [email protected] www.duesseldorf.de/wirtschaftsfoerderung LifeScienceNet Düsseldorf The LifeScienceNet Düsseldorf network is operated jointly by the city’s Office of Economic Development, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Düssel- dorf Innovation and Science Agency and the Düsseldorf Life Science Center. Its aim is to network representa- tives of life science companies, industry-affiliated service providers, suppliers and investors as well as scientists in institutes of higher education and research institutes in the area. These representatives meet at regular network meetings, company visits and faculty presentations, where they receive important informa- tion, e.g. about funding programmes. The network also Associations and organisations has as its aim promotion of the region nationally and Important trade associations and organisations sup- internationally as a leading life sciences centre. porting life sciences and the chemical sector have their Düsseldorf’s LifeScienceNet also operates as a represen- offices in Düsseldorf. The area thus has outstanding tative of the area’s interests on regional and national levels of efficient network potential to offer to com- industrial bodies. www.lifescience-dus.de panies: • Düsseldorf is home to and a founder member of BioRiver – Life Science im Rheinland e. V., an or- ganisation representing the interests of 90 science and business institutions active throughout the 4 Some 98 life science companies are based in the Rhineland. www.bioriver.de 5 Düsseldorf area. They benefit from the location’s • many advantages. Düsseldorf is home to BIO.NRW, the organisation set up to manage the state of North Rhine-West- phalia’s biotechnology cluster. www.bio.nrw.de • Düsseldorf is home to CLIB2021, the cluster suppor- ting the supraregional establishment and networking of industrial biotechnology. It networks the chemical industry, young biotech companies and scientific establishments all over Germany as well as relevant user industries and investors. www.clib2021.de • Düsseldorf is home to MedizinTechnik.NRW, set up to manage the state of North Rhine-Westphalia’s medical technology cluster. www.medizin-technik-nrw.de • Düsseldorf is home to NanoMikroWerkstoffePho- tonik.NRW, set up to manage the state of North Rhine-Westphalia’s new materials, nanotechnology, microsystems technology and optical technologies cluster. www.nmwp.nrw.de • Düsseldorf is home to the NRW Stem Cell Research competence network. www.stammzellen.nrw.de • Düsseldorf is home to the North Rhine-Westphalia State Association forming part of the German Che- mical Industry Association (VCI NRW), which re- presents 460 members and about 100,000 employees. www.vci.de/nrw Düsseldorf › Selected companies, service providers and suppliers specialising in life sciences in the Düsseldorf region Red biotechnology/ • ARENSIA Exploratory Medicine Other life science companies Institut/Bohlken Consulting e. K. enabling technologies/ GmbH • GHX Europe GmbH • Allrutan GmbH diagnostic products • CoreLab Partners Europe GmbH • Global Sciences GmbH • Alpha-Biocare GmbH • FOCUS Clinical Drug • Hagedorn Medical Services & • AiCuris GmbH & Co. KG • AlpNutrition GmbH Development GmbH Consulting • Algiax Pharmaceuticals GmbH • Easyway GmbH • Global Research Services GmbH • Healthcare Personalmanage- • Autodisplay Biotech GmbH • MykoMax GmbH • INC Research Germany GmbH ment GmbH • BIO-MAR GbR • Orthomol pharmazeutische • Jubilant Clinsys Inc. • HS Lifesciences GmbH • Celsis International GmbH Vertriebs GmbH • M.A.R.C.O. GmbH & Co. KG • HYSYST Deutschland • Charles River Biopharmaceutical • RIKEN VITAMIN EUROPE GmbH • Profil Institut für Stoffwechsel- GmbH & Co. KG Services GmbH forschung GmbH • iMDsoft • Cube Biotech GmbH • Innosquared GmbH • DR. FOOKE Laboratorien GmbH Law firms and patent agents • Kleen Linnebo & Partner • Dynavax Europe Rhein Biotech Pharma • Baker & McKenzie – Partnerschaft Unternehmensberatung GbR GmbH von Rechtsanwälten, Wirtschafts- • Labor Urbanus GmbH • Epivios GmbH • A2M Pharma GmbH prüfern, Steuerberatern und • MedWise Institute GmbH • InBio GmbH • Caesar & Loretz GmbH Solicitors • MLM Medical Labs GmbH • MEACURA GmbH • ConVet GmbH & Co. KG • Bird & Bird LLP • o[x]m Informationsdesign • miacom diagnostics GmbH • Galderma Laboratorium GmbH • Bonnekamp & Sparing • PS Pharma Service GmbH • MorphoSys AbD GmbH AbD • HAL Allergie GmbH Patentanwaltskanzlei • Qlaym GmbH Serotec • Janssen-Cilag GmbH • BPSH Patent- und Rechtsanwälte • Sanacorp Pharmahandel GmbH • Orthogen AG • Lindopharm GmbH GbR • Science Service Dr. Hempel GmbH • Pharma Waldhof GmbH • Maruho Deutschland GmbH • Clifford Chance Partnerschafts- • Sirius Seedfonds Düsseldorf • QIAGEN GmbH • MCS Micro Carrier Systems GmbH gesellschaft von Rechtsanwälten, GmbH & Co. KG • Sanochemia Diagnostics • Mitsubishi Pharma Wirtschaftsprüfern, Steuerberatern • Sirius Venture Partners GmbH Deutschland GmbH Deutschland GmbH und Solicitors • Sumitomo Deutschland GmbH • Toyobo Co., Ltd. • neuraxpharm Arzneimittel GmbH • COHAUSZ & FLORACK • Systat Software GmbH • Trin Therapeutics GmbH • Nippon Shinyaku Co., Ltd. Patent- und Rechtsanwälte • UNITEDDESIGNWORKERS • Vivocell Biosolutions GmbH & • Octapharma GmbH • Gille Hrabal GbR – Patentanwälte
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