Presentation of Award 2007

The winner of the 2007 EUROPEAN BIOTECHNICA AWARD is the Renovo Group from the United Kingdom

• Second place goes to Genmab A/S, Denmark
• In third place is Bavarian Nordic A/S, Denmark

Renovo Group Plc from Manchester has good reason to celebrate.
This evening the British manufacturer of biopharmaceuticals was awarded first prize in the 2007 EUROPEAN BIOTECHNICA AWARD at the official opening ceremony for BIOTECHNICA in Hannover.

In second place was the biotech company Genmab A/S from Copenhagen. And third place went to another Danish company, Bavarian Nordic A/S, which manufactures biopharmaceutical products in Kvistgaard.

Christian Wulff, the Premier of Lower Saxony, Dr. Karl-Ludwig Kley, Chairman of the Board of Merck KGaA, Christian Siebert, departmental head at the European Commission, and Stephan Ph. Kühne, who sits on the Board of Management at Deutsche Messe AG, Hannover, presented the prizes in the presence of more than 500 invited persons from the worlds of science, business and politics.

This was the fifth successive year in which Deutsche Messe has awarded the prize - now worth a total of EUR 100,000 - to European companies working in biotechnology and the life sciences which have developed particularly innovative products, services and associated business ideas.

"We noted this year an increase in the number of competition entrants, particularly from countries outside Germany. This is a clear indicator of the growing importance of the biotechnology industry as a driver of economic growth", says Stephan Kühne.

The international jury, made up of distinguished biotech experts from six countries, selected the three winners from a list of 27 applicants. The criteria for the award were market viability, market relevance, market presence of products and services, and a promising marketing concept.