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MorphoSys: A European Champion Crossing The Biopharma Rubicon

Insight Into Europe's Maturing Biopharma Market

 
• By Andrew McConaghie

The Munich-based company is one of a handful of mature European biotechs poised to enter the big league. New CEO Jean-Paul Kress talks to In Vivo about the firm’s next generation antibody platform and why US expansion is crucial to its future.

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MorphoSys' New CEO Jean-Paul Kress

MorphoSys, based in Martinsreid near Munich, has been around for a full 27 years, and was until this year led by its co-founder Simon Moroney. He oversaw the patient and painstaking development of the company’s R&D expertise over those decades. The strategy first focused on providing its next-generation antibody technology to big pharma, but MorphoSys now possesses an impressive pipeline of partnered and in-house molecules.

The company has a potential blockbuster on its hands, in the shape of its lead in-house candidate tafasitamab (formerly MOR208),...

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