Overall 131 articles about chitosan and chitosan derivatives were published in March 2012.

As in the previous month, China is the country with the most publications with overall 35 articles, followed by the USA (14 articles), India (9 articles) and Taiwan (8 articles).

Following the successful branch event in the year 2011 in Munich this year’s meeting will take place in Frankfurt/Main from May 09 - 10.

In February 2012 the Technical University (TU) of Vienna filed a patent for a new production method of the popular pharmaceutical raw material N-acetylneuraminic acid (NeuNAc). Molds were used as “chemical factories” and were combined with the biological raw material chitin to obtain the desired final product.

The international World Meeting on Pharmaceutics, Biopharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technolgy has been a great success for scientists, medics, producers and marketing specialists of the pharmaceutical sector. Overall 1300 visitors from 56 countries and 5 continents attended the meeting. Many guests also visited the HMC+ exhibit stand to get information about chitosan, chitosan derivatives and their possible applications in medical and pharmaceutical product developments.