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August 2004
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INDIVUMED provides Aventis access to unique medical research resources
August 9, 2004 – INDIVUMED has entered a research material agreement with Aventis Pharma, a global leader in medical research. Under this agreement, Aventis Pharma will have access to Indivumed's unique Integrated Analytical Platform (IAP). The IAP combines standardized preparations of clinical samples with a comprehensive database containing clinical as well as sample information. The extensive amount of data linked with high quality and standardized biospecimen enables Aventis to accelerate its research program and to obtain clinically relevant experimental data. INDIVUMED has found a strong partner to achieve its goal of supporting the development of individualized medicine.

April 2004
INDIVUMED Inc., the US-daughter of INDIVUMED GmbH, has been founded.
INDIVUMED has opened its US-branch in Silver Spring, MD in the Washington DC Metropolitan area. The office will allow US customers to directly contact INDIVUMED during the normal work day and give INDIVUMED a better opportunity to support its customers in North America.

October 2003
INDIVUMED moves into its new research building at the Israelitisches Krankenhaus
On October 29, 2003, 400 guests celebrated the opening of INDIVUMED’s new research building on the campus of the Israelitisches Krankenhaus in Hamburg. Clinical documentation, high quality tissue banking, and research have been efficiently combined under one roof. Previously decentralized facilities are now located in one of the most modern, biotechnology research centers in the Hamburg metropolitan area. The central location, only a short distances from oncological hospital partners and the University Clinic of Hamburg, places INDIVUMED in the heart of Hamburg’s prospering innovative medicine and life science region.

July 2003
Press Release
INDIVUMED and EXACT Sciences enter pioneering research material agreement for colon cancer program

Hamburg, Germany — July 10th, 2003 - INDIVUMED GmbH, Center for Cancer Research at the Israelitisches Krankenhaus in Hamburg, has entered a unique materials supply agreement with EXACT Sciences Corporation, a global leader in applying advances in the field of genomics to facilitate early detection of cancer. Under this agreement, EXACT Sciences will have access to INDIVUMED’s unique human tissue/fluid and data bank for its colon cancer research program.

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April 2003
INDIVUMED wins competition for best start-up in Hamburg
INDIVUMED received the prize at an official ceremony on April 2, 2003, in the presence of Ole von Beust, mayor and governor of Hamburg. In his remarks, Dr. K. J. Dreyer, President of the Chamber of Commerce of Hamburg, named INDIVUMED the “pearl of Hamburg’s life science region.”

February 2003
Collaboration with the Diakoniekrankenhaus Alten Eichen
In February 2003, INDIVUMED began collaborating with the Diakoniekrankenhaus Alten Eichen, a leading oncological center in Hamburg for the treatment of colon cancer. This collaboration doubles the number of surgical colon cancer patients participating in INDIVUMED’s tissue and fluid collection program. This collaboration increases the size and quality of INDIVUMED’s tissue and data bank and improves its ability to support development of new treatment modalities.

28 October 2002
INDIVUMED Cancer Research Center Debut
Over 500 guests, including Governor Ole von Beust, attended a celebration in honor of INDIVUMED’s successfull collaboration with the Israelitisches Krankenhaus in developing a new Cancer Research Center in Hamburg.

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Indivumed's team in front of the new research building at the Israelitisches Krankenhaus.
INDIVUMED’s team in front of the new research building at the Israelitisches Krankenhaus

 

 

Ole von Beust, Governor of Hamburg
“INDIVUMED is a success story...I regard INDIVUMED’s foundation as a very important step in developing the life science region of Hamburg”.

Ole von Beust, Governor of Hamburg