0. Interesting Links   Many organizations represent the interests of consumers, patients, industry and regulatory authorities. Here we have tried to make a selection of those groups that are known to have an interest in animal cell technology or stand to benefit greatly from it.       ACTIP member companies   Artelis - Belgium - More info   AstraZeneca Biotech Laboratory - Sweden: www.astra.com Bayer HealthCare AG - Germany: www.pharma.bayer.com Bayer Schering Pharma AG - Germany: www.Schering.de BioInvent International AB - Sweden: www.bioinvent.com BioReliance - Scotland: www.bioreliance.com BioUetikon Ltd - Ireland: Biovitrum AB - Sweden: www.biovitrum.com Boehringer Ingelheim PharmaGmbH KG & Co. - Germany: www.boehringer-ingelheim.de Centocor bv- The Netherlands: www.centocor.nl Charles River laboratories - Scotland: www.criver.com Covance Laboratories - United Kingdom: www.covance.com/biotech Crucell - The netherlands: www.crucell.nl DSM-Biologics - The Netherlands: www.dsm.nl F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. - Switzerland: www.roche.com Genzyme - Belgium: www.genzyme.com GlaxoSmithKline (U.K.): www.gsk.com GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals (Belgium): www.gsk.com Henogen - Belgium: www.henogen.com Laboratories Serono S.A. Switzerland: www.serono.com . LONZA Biologics - United Kingdom: www.lonza.com Morphosys AG - Germany: www.morphosys.com Novartis Pharma AG - Switzerland: www.novartis.com Novartis Behring GmbH & Co. KG - Germany: www.chiron-behring.de Novo Nordisk A/S - Denmark: www.novonordisk.com Octapharma - Sweden: www.octapharma.com Organon - The netherlands: www.akzonobel.com Pfizer Ltd. - United Kingdom: Rentschler biotechnology GmbH - Germany: www.rentschler.de RBM-Merck Serono - Italy: Sanofi-Aventis - France: www.sanofi-synthelabo.fr Sanofi-Pasteur - France: www.sanofipasteur.com Sartorius AG - Germany: www.sartorius.com Honorary Member Prof. Dr. Michael Comer - Ireland Observers: EMBO: www.embo.org ESACT: www.esact.org/ ESGT: http://www.cbt.ki.se/ewgt GBF: www.gbf.de      Worldwide organizations   WHO - World Health Organization: www.who.org OECD - Organization for Economic Development: hwww.oecd.org EAPB - www.eapb.org and www.new-drugs.com      European Union   European Commission: Cordis - the general database of the EU: www.cordis.lu Commission in general - general description of Commission, plus links to European bodies: http://europa.eu.int/comm/index.htm DG Research - runs and prepares research programmes in biotechnology. Follow links to all biotech projects currently running: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research DG 24 - Responsible for Consumer Affairs. Has scientific Committees, i.e. the Scientific Committee on Health and Animal Welfare and the Scientific Committee on Cosmetic and Non-Food products: http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg24/ News from the European Union, Eur-Op News: http://publications.eu.int. European Parliament: European Parliament in general: www.europarl.eu.int/sg/tree/en/default.htm Members European Parliament: www.europarl.eu.int/members/en/default.htm Documents from the European Parliament: www.europarl.eu.int/plenary/en/default.htm European research RTD Info - information on European research policy, strategy and sometimes projects: http://europa.eu.int/comm/research/rtdinfo.html BIOREP, a database with descriptions of 8,000 projects: www.niwi.knaw.nl     Patenting Information   European patent office: www.european-patent-office.org/ Derwent patent information: www.derwent.com www.freepatentsonline.co This web site has free PDF downloading (instead of having to page through TIFFs like at the US Patent Office), and is faster than the US Patent Office's site.     Regulatory agencies and links   FDA - Food and Drugs Administration general: www.fda.gov/ CBER/FDA - Food and Drugs Administration - CBER: www.fda.gov/cber/publications.htm European Pharmacopeia: www.pheur.org Harmonization at OECD: www.oecd.org/ehs/service.htm NIBSC: www.nibsc.ac.uk/     Biotechnology organizations     Bionovations -The upstream part of manufacturing processes of biopharmaceuticals in which animal cells are used is far from optimal from a product point of view. This is the reason that we will cut the edge between critical product and critical process attributes. We have invited Mike Butler. He is well aware of this important shortcoming. www.bionovations.org EuropaBio, gateway to European National Biotechnology Associations: www.europa-bio.be/ BIO, the Biotechnology Industry Organization of the USA: www.bio.org/ BBA - Belgian BioIndustry Association: www.bba-bio.be/ BIA - BioIndustry Association (UK): www.bioindustry.org/ DIB - German BioIndustry Association: www.vci.de FAIP - Farm Animal Industrial Platform: www.faip.dk Industry Platform for Microbiology IPM: www.tech-know.be Lactic Acid Bacteria Industrial Platform LABIP: www.labip.com email aat.ledeboer@unilever.com PIP - Plant Industrial Platform: www.probio.org/pip.htm SIK - Swedish Institute for Food and Biotechnology: www.sik.se/ Yeast Industry Platform YIP: www.tech-know.be     Sector Federations/associations   EFPIA, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations: www.efpia.org CEFIC - European Chemical Industries: www.cefic.org ESACT - European Society of Animal Cell Technology: www.esact.org/ EFB Section on Applied Genome Research: www.efb.org ESGT - European Society for GeneTherapy www.cbt.ki.se/ewgt European Society for Gene Therapy (ESGT): various webaddresses, try: www.cbt.ki.se/wwwgtc/   Back To Top. | Home Objectives |  Organization | Members | News and Info. | Publications | Products |  Interesting Links | Library | Secure Contact Us © 2005 ACTIP