Dieter Falkenburg

Novoplant GmbH develops and provides veterinary medicines. It produces antibodies and antibody fragments in plants for veterinary use to fight intestinal pathogens. It received a license for the development and commercialization of therapeutic antibodies as feed components for use in veterinary medicine. It will use MorphoSys’s HuCAL GOLD technology to generate antibodies against viruses, parasites and pathogenic microorganisms. The addition of such antibodies to animal feed stock may offer protection against infectious diseases in the respective animal’s gastro-intestinal tract. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Gatersleben, Germany.