In January 2025, it was time for our annual altona Diagnostics kickoff! Around 300 altona employees from our Hamburg headquarters and all 9 subsidiaries met for a packed program. Take a look at the photo gallery!

In the fall of 2024, altona Diagnostics received the certificate for compliance with all applicable requirements of the 𝘐𝘯 𝘝𝘪𝘵𝘳𝘰 Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation (IVDR; EU 2017/746) for their PCR testing products.

December 1 is World AIDS Day. With the AltoStar^® HIV RT-PCR Kit 1.5, altona provides an CE-marked RT-PCR test to detect and quantify the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) specific RNA (groups M, N and O) in human EDTA plasma.

altona Diagnostics has been ranked among the Top 20 most innovative SMEs in Germany for the second year in a row.

It’s World Pneumonia Day. Pneumonia is one of the leading infectious causes of death of children. To detect causative pathogens of pneumonia in children, altona supplies labs with real-time PCR assays.

In the fall of 2024, altona Diagnostics celebrated the grand opening of the new extraction chemistry production site at altona campus Schnackenburgallee in Hamburg opposite the premises of altona Logistics.