Bayer
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the fields of health care, agriculture and high-tech polymer materials. As an innovation company, it sets trends in research-intensive areas. Bayer's products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At the same time, the Group aims to create value through innovation, growth and high earning power. Bayer is committed to the principles of sustainable development and to its social and ethical responsibilities as a corporate citizen. In fiscal 2014, the Group employed 118,900 people and had sales of EUR 42.2 billion. Capital expenditures amounted to EUR 2.5 billion, R&D expenses to EUR 3.6 billion.
Business & Industry
- Vir Biotechnology and GSK announce NHS-supported AGILE study to evaluate VIR-7832 in the early treatment of COVID-19
- Bayer transforms pharma business through breakthrough innovation in healthcare
- Valneva in advanced discussions with European Commission to supply up to 60 million doses of inactivated, adjuvanted COVID-19 vaccine candidate
- An in vitro study shows Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine elicits antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2 with a mutation associated with rapid transmission
- European Commission authorizes COVID-19 vaccine Moderna in Europe
Research & Development
- New England Journal of Medicine publishes COVID-19 treatment trial results
- Scientists identify 'immune cop' that detects SARS-CoV-2
- New findings help explain how COVID-19 overpowers the immune system
- New virtual screening strategy identifies existing drug that inhibits COVID-19 virus
- Sustained cellular immune dysregulation in individuals recovering from COVID-19
- How SARS-CoV-2 interacts with cells
- Neutralizing antibodies protect against severe COVID-19
Conferences & Events
- CPhI Worldwide to return in 2021
- Reuters Events' Cell & Gene Therapy USA
- Total health: Build a better healthcare system
- Don't fall for the 'next best action' trap
- Locking down shape-shifting spike protein aids development of COVID-19 vaccine
- COVID-19 vaccine innovation could dramatically speed up worldwide production
- Wearable Injectors and Connected Devices Conference 2020
Regulatory Affairs
- EMA receives application for conditional marketing authorisation of COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca
- FDA takes additional action in fight against COVID-19 by issuing Emergency Use Authorization for second COVID-19 vaccine
- Update on assessment of the BioNTech and Pfizer BNT162b2 vaccine marketing authorisation application
- FDA takes key action in fight against COVID-19 by issuing Emergency Use Authorization for first COVID-19 vaccine
- EMA receives application for conditional marketing authorisation of COVID-19 mRNA vaccine BNT162b2