life science location vienna

Life Science Location Vienna

CMI-Workshop27. 5. 2008

Dr. Sabine Ecker,LISA VRwww.lisavr.at

Overview


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)



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



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

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


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


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


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