2024 continues to be a tricky year for German biotech Evotec SE, as difficult market conditions hamper its turnaround endeavors. It now plans cut around 400 jobs, exit gene therapy and close its site in Orth, Austria, as it redoubles its reorganization efforts.
Recovery Still Some Way Off For Evotec
The German firm will have to wait until 2025 for a reversal in its fortunes as new CEO Christian Wojczewski accelerates its transformation program with the loss of 400 jobs.

More from Business
The latest in a long line of restructuring measures will see Sumitomo Pharma making a stepped sale of its pharma operations in Asia to major Japanese trading house Marubeni.
CEO Kris Elverum told Scrip about the start-up’s platform for editing RNA to correct genetic variants that cause harm and to reproduce healthy variants as a means of treating disease.
Pharma executives and investors are waiting with bated breath to find out if President Trump will include drugs in a new round of tariffs to be announced on 2 April.
After failing a Phase II monotherapy study in early Parkinson’s, Cerevance will focus on adjunctive therapy without abandoning the monotherapy concept.
More from Scrip
Pharma executives and investors are waiting with bated breath to find out if President Trump will include drugs in a new round of tariffs to be announced on 2 April.
After failing a Phase II monotherapy study in early Parkinson’s, Cerevance will focus on adjunctive therapy without abandoning the monotherapy concept.
The firm has lofty ambitions for the aldosterone synthase inhibitor to treat hypertension and kidney disease.