Medac
Medac GmbH is a privately owned German pharmaceutical company based in Wedel and Tornesch.
medac specializes in therapeutic agents for the treatment of oncological, urological and autoimmune diseases and their related symptoms. medac also produces therapeutics for fibrinolysis along with diagnostic agents for infection diagnostics and oncology diagnostics. The corporation owns 50% of two subsidiaries, Oncotec GmbH in Dessau Germany and oncomed manufacturing a.s. in the Czech Republic city of Brno, for the production of highly effective, sterile pharmaceuticals like cytostatics. In addition to generic products, medac has also developed its own products, which primarily covers therapeutic niches.
In addition to therapeutic agents, medac also markets diagnostic agents. The portfolio includes more than 40 infection diagnostics based on serological testing for bacterial and viral infections and direct detection methods for bacteria, fungi and viruses using the PCR technique. medac also provides reagent solutions for tissue differentiation of tumour samples.History
medac GmbH, corporation for special clinical preparations, was founded in April 1970 in Hamburg by Wilfried Mohr, Claus-Olaf Welding, Dr. Werner Mai and Ernst Voss. The objective was to produce clotting preparations and pursue the production of fibrinolytics. During this time, they also began marketing diagnostic products. Soon after, medac focused on the indication area oncology and began marketing the pharmaceutical preparation Mitomycin C.
Today the company supply over 50 oncology compounds in a wide range of administration forms for the treatment of different types of cancer.
In the late 80s a new indication area arose – the treatment of autoimmune diseases. Today, medac supplies Methotrexat, a folic acid antagonist for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, which is available in several dosage forms.
