Billerica, Massachusetts, September 27, 2017 — MilliporeSigma today announced an update on its participation in Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Program for Research and Innovation, to improve biopharmaceutical downstream processing.
The nextBioPharmDSP is part of the Horizon 2020 initiative, the largest EU-based program of its kind to date with nearly $96 billion of funding available over seven years (2014 to 2020). The program seeks to ensure Europe produces world-class science by removing barriers to innovation and collaboration between public and private sectors. It promises more breakthroughs, discoveries and world-firsts by taking great ideas from the lab to the market.
The project is coordinated by Lek Pharmaceuticals, a Sandoz company in Slovenia. Consortium members include Sandoz GmbH (Austria), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (Austria), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany), National Institute of Chemistry (Slovenia) and National Systems srl (Italy). MilliporeSigma participates in the consortium through its French operating entity, Millipore S.A.S. For more information, please visit the project website at http://nextbiopharmdsp.eu/.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No 635557.