MorphoSys is increasingly active in fulfilling its role as a socially responsible company.
At the end of each year, the employees of MorphoSys AG support local
charitable non-profit organizations with private donations. In 2008,
MorphoSys’s staff donated approximately € 1,700 to Kinderzentrum München, an organization supporting families with children suffering from chronic and lifethreatening diseases.
In May 2008, MorphoSys donated a total of €10.000 to the children’s rheumatism trust Kinder-Rheumastiftung,
an organization which initiates and supports projects across Germany
which promote studies and research into new possibilities of treating
rheumatoid arthritis in children with the aim of allowing such children
to lead as normal a life as possible. In Germany, some 50,000 children
and young people are affected by an acute rheumatic illness.
In May 2007, MorphoSys donated a total of €10,000 to the Ronald McDonald House charity.
This fund helps families with sick children, in particular those with
cardiac illnesses before and after transplants. Such families live in
Ronald McDonald Houses in the immediate vicinity of larger children’s
hospitals while their children are receiving treatment. Studies have
shown that treatment can be shortened by up to a third if parents and
siblings live close to young patients.
The biotechnology industry is not a carbon-intensive sector.
MorphoSys is exploiting measures to further reduce its greenhouse gas
emissions in the interests of the environment. MorphoSys’s business
unit AbD Serotec participates in a carbon offsetting scheme related to
product shipments. Under the terms of the agreement, AbD Serotec’s
courier services partner calculates the carbon footprint for each AbD
Serotec product shipment, and purchases carbon offsets at ClimateCare
on AbD Serotec’s behalf. ClimateCare invests the carbon offsets in a
variety of projects such as reforestation, renewable energy and energy
efficiency projects.
MorphoSys offers wide-ranging employment opportunities, offering
employment for school leavers looking for vocational training, graduate
students’ diploma thesis as well as internships for students and
technical assistants. As a part of its open-door policy, MorphoSys
presents itself on a regular basis to visitors at an annual open house
and throughout the year.
One of MorphoSys’s main goals in regard to corporate culture and
human resources is to secure a healthy work-life balance for its
employees and their families. As a part of this effort, MorphoSys —
together with other Munich-based biotechnology companies — founded a
local kindergarten called “BioKids”
in 2002 and has supported this both financially and in terms of active
participation since that time. A member of MorphoSys has been
consistently on the advisory board of the holding company Kita BioRegio
e.V., which represents “BioKids.”
