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Merck KGaA Offering Broad Expertise To Nurture China Start-Ups

 
• By Ying Huang

Merck, the German health care and life sciences group, is tapping into China’s burgeoning biotech start-up community through a new grant program under which it is offering financial aid and broad technology support and hopes to help advance novel life-saving therapeutics.

SHANGHAI – To tap into China’s fast-growing biopharmaceutical sector and explore opportunities for bringing new drugs to market, Germany-based Merck KGAA is providing tailor made support to small emerging biotech companies through a grant program and will consider possible growth partnerships.

Committed to helping advance life-saving drugs to market, Merck’s first emerging biotech grant program started in 2014, awarding NGM...

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