Axolabs GmbH Completes Management Buy-Out of Former Roche Center of Excellence in Kulmbach
With a team of key scientists and technical personnel having world-leading know-how and 10+ years of experience in the nucleic acids therapeutics field, Axolabs provide high end research services ranging from nucleic acid drug discovery through preclinical R&D to clients and partners from the pharmaceutical, biotechnological and medical technology industry, clinical units, research facilities and also venture capital firms operating in the nucleic acids therapeutics field.
“After Roche had decided in November 2010 to discontinue the siRNA field scientifically and operationally we are glad to now be able to preserve a number of highly qualified positions at our former site in Kulmbach, Germany, by facilitating this buy-out of the Roche Kulmbach GmbH by the former management”, says Hagen Pfundner, CEO Roche Pharma AG, Germany.
“We highly appreciate Roche’s decision to support this MBO. This allows us to re-hire key employees necessary to cover all aspects of our services”, says Andreas Bossko, Head of Finance and Administration, Axolabs GmbH.
“This step enables us to retain our world-leading know-how in the nucleic acid therapeutics field together with a fully equipped and operational site”, says Dr. Roland Kreutzer, who originally co- founded the company under the name of Ribopharma AG in 2000 as the first company focusing on RNAi therapeutics.
Dr. Hans-Peter Vornlocher, Head of Research at Axolabs, comments: “With this organization we provide our outstanding expertise to our customers by offering a broad array of preclinical research services around nucleic acid therapeutics. The high interest in such research services as well as the excellent reputation of the Kulmbach team is reflected by the significant number of requests that we already received from the Pharma and Biotech industry.”
Axolabs will have the custom research business fully operational by the end of this year and also plan to dedicate resources to internal research projects.
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