We keep researching.

All it takes for a new medication: a good idea and 12 years of hard work.All it takes for a new medication: a good idea and 12 years of hard work.

Developments in recent decades have saved the lives of thousands of people. Many of yesterday’s innovations are today’s generics. And many innovations are still to come.

Developments in recent decades have saved the lives of thousands of people. Many of yesterday’s innovations are today’s generics. And many innovations are still to come.

Yet it is people, not anonymous robots, who research new medications and therapies, both day and night.

Here we focus on the researchers of current developments, the diseases of the past and the technologies of the future.

Research stories

What goes on behind laboratory doors? We have documented it for you.

Five in-depth stories of researchers in their natural, usually highly unglamorous working environments.

All research stories

Yesterday’s innovations

From innovation to primary health care.

Many things that, a few years ago, were considered medical breakthroughs, are now part of basic medical care.

To the medical innovations

Tomorrow’s technologies

Technologies that will change the world.

In coming years and decades, new technologies will mean new hope for patients.

To the videos