Key Research Areas

What are our members working on?


The Association of Research-based Pharmaceutical Companies (VFA) is the trade organization of research-based pharmaceutical companies in Germany.

45 leading research-based pharmaceutical companies are organized in the VFA. Together with their more than über 100 subsidiaries and affiliated companies, they employ nearly 90,000 people in Germany.

You can get information about the companies’ general research focus and what they are actually working on in their research, preclinical (prior to administering a drug to people) and clinical development (testing the drug on human test subjects) by selecting key research areas or companies, You are interested in:

News

Expense forecast:
Increase for medical reasons


G8 summit:
Setting the correct course for combating AIDS in Africa


Cost-Benefit Assessment in Germany:
Orientation by international standards


Publications

Statistics 2009 (English) The pharmaceutical industry in Germany; Facts & Figures
Statistics 2009 (English)
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