From vaccine developers to pharma corporations: The most important German companies in the battle against the corona pandemic are to be found in Frankfurt RheinMain.
Sanofi- Synthélabo and Aventis, which was itself the product of a merger of Frankfurt’s Hoechst AG and Rhône-Poulenc, Lyon. It all began about 150 years ago in Frankfurt’s Höchst district with an antipyretic, and today the area is home to the HQ of Sanofi Deutschland and the manufacturing base for one of the world’s best-selling insulin pens. Sanofi Pasteur, the company’s vaccine division, is researching two corona vaccines, with one relying on an adjuvant and the other on messenger RNA (mRNA).
Welcome to Frankfurt RheinMain - A region that is home to the world 