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The unsung Science Hero
By Marcus Bauser, Head of Medical Chemistry Analytics, Bayer HealthCare Berlin:
Analytics is undoubtedly the secret star of natural sciences: it is so rarely in the limelight. This does not, however, mean that it is not immensely important. Without analytics, many things would be impossible. This…
When the testers are tested
Accreditation for Adlershof companies and institutions:
“Accreditation is always a competitive advantage,” explained Professor Jürgen Leonhardt, head of the Adlershof based Institut für Umwelttechnologien (IUT) GmbH. Leonhardt’s company has verifi ed in the form of…
Immersing into Processes
Modern analytical methods in bioanalytics:
Whether the inside of cells or haze in the atmosphere, modern analytical methods depict images of worlds both inside and around us. And these methods are gaining in precision and speed. “Without analytical chemistry…
Sweating alcohol from carbon dioxide
Cyano Biofuels does commercial manufacture of algae based biofuel:
When the US company Algenol first knocked on the doors of Cyano Biotech with a proposal for the commercial manufacture of algae based biofuel, Dan Kramer found the idea to be “absurd”. Today, the molecular biologist…
Searching for traces in a new light
ISAS and Analytik Jena enrich chemical research with analysis devices:
When the top US firm Perkin Elmer withdrew in 2001 from its location in Überlingen by Lake Constance, the industrial experts for instrumental analytics in South Germany and the spectroscopy specialists at today’s…
Homing Pharmaceuticals
Patients with degenerative or inflammatory eye diseases may now hope for a cure:
The Adlershof biotech company TheraKine BioDelivery GmbH is working on the targeted delivery of agents to the focus of infl ammation. Compared with the usual methods, the chances of a cure are greater, and there are…
Recruiting Appeal
Adlershof's JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH is expanding:
JPT Peptide Technologies GmbH can also rely on the location’s appeal in its search for new recruits. “We find that Adlershof today provides an attractive environment: everything fits,” confessed Holger Wenschuh, JPT…
Report on Adlershof 2010
"Berlin’s first port of call" by WISTA-CEO Hardy Rudolf Schmitz:
Content Berlin’s first port of callThe economic situation of Adlershof in 2010WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBHAdlershof Projekt GmbHInnovations-Zentrum Berlin Management GmbH (IZBM)Adlershof Facility Management GmbHAdlershof in…
Berlin Adlershof - Facts and Figures
March 2011:
Berlin Adlershof is one of the most successful high-tech locations in Germany. Embedded in an overall urban development concept, this integrated Science, Business and Media location has been growing on an area of 4.2…
DIW report on Adlershof for download
"Impact on added value, employment and tax revenues in Berlin":
At the end of 2010, WISTA MANAGEMEMT GMBH commissioned DIW econ GmbH, the consulting company of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), to assess regional economic stimuli resulting from the economic and…
SENTECH received Megawatt Honor Award in China
SENTECH’s spectroscopic ellipsometer has been awarded in the category “Top 10 Highlights”:
We are proud to announce that SENTECH’s spectroscopic ellipsometer SE 800 PV has been awarded with the Megawatt Honor Award at the SNEC PV Conference and Exhibition 2011 in Shanghai China in the category “Top 10…
Foundational Principles of Fuel Cell Systems
Heliocentris signs OEM-Agreement with Lab-Volt for Technical Training Markets Worldwide:
Heliocentris Energy Solutions AG, a leading specialist in clean energy storage solutions, announces an OEM-agreement with Lab-Volt Systems, Inc., a global leader in technical training equipment with corporate…
Solidarity with Japan
The Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) team at the HZB is offering synchrotron beam time to the Japanese MX-community:
The Macromolecular Crystallography (MX) team at the HZB is offering synchrotron beam time to the Japanese MX-community. The offer entails access to the most advanced and automated MX-beamline currently available in…
German scientists set up platform to help Japanese colleagues
Initiative of the Leibniz Association, together with other organizations:
Scientists of the Leibniz Association, together with colleagues from other organizations, have set up an initiative to help Japanese scientists, whose work is endangered by the devastating impact of the quake and the…
Thin-film photovoltaics – All the current issues
3rd "Thin-Film Industry Forum" on 14th and 15th April 2011 in Berlin Adlershof:
The 3rd "Thin-Film Industry Forum" on 14th and 15th April 2011 in Berlin will look at all the issues around thin-film technology - from the political environment, through international market development, finance and…
Open and vibrant. By Ingrid Walther, ICT/Media competence field manager for the Berlin State Ministry of Economy, Technology and Women
For good reason, and with great success, the region around the capital city of Berlin has been focusing part of its business policy on IT and communications since the 1990s. The result is above average growth rates.…
Interview with Prof Dr Stefan Jähnichen, Head of Fraunhofer FIRST and President of the German association of computer scientists
Adlershof Special: As the strategic technologies for 2011, the US market research company Gartner names 1) cloud computing, 2) mobile applications and media tablets, and 3) social networks. What would be your top…
Faster to the end: Smartphones as multifunctional mobile communication centres
High tech companies in Adlershof are developing new software tools for optimising traffic flows, not only a relief to logisticians in their everyday routines. As a welcome side effect, the tracking system used also…
New neighbours, new partners: Interview with Susann Niemeyer, Head of the IT and Media Centre
Adlershof Special: Computer science is seen to be a multifaceted sector. What is the situation in Adlershof? Susann Niemeyer – The technology fields of IT and media in Adlershof are presently the domain of about 80…
Don’t be shy now: Social media technologies for senior citizens
Luise Schmidt is 68 and has a heart complaint. She likes knitting and lives alone. Luise Schmidt is also a prototypical senior citizen: not a real person, but invented by Dr Michael John and his colleagues at the…