AJZ Engineering to re-equip Russian cancer centre:
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
German company AJZ Engineering has been contracted to modernise and equip the "Blochin" Oncology Research Centre at the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences in Moscow. The contract is worth E60 million ($50 million) and involves re-equipping the surgery centre, the bone marrow transplant centre and the central sterilisation facility, and modernising parts of the centre's radiation therapy and laboratory diagnostic units. The project is expected to take two years. Jena-based AJZ Engineering will include a number of companies from eastern Germany in the project, mostly from Thuringia. The company co-operated with Siemens Medical Solutions to modernise the radiation therapy and imaging diagnostics units. AJZ Engineering is a joint venture of Analytik Jena and Carl Zeiss Jena.