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10/10/2025

Science meets Industry Day – Building Bridges between Academia and Industry in Cancer Research

On October 7, 2025, around 80 participants from academia and industry came together in Heidelberg for the “Science meets Industry Day”, jointly organized by the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), the…

13/08/2025

Targeting sleeping tumor cells

Neuroblastoma, a cancer mainly affecting children, is often difficult to treat. Researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Center now report a potential reason treatment…

30/07/2025

Biomedical Research: Forum Health Research Issues Recommendations to Promote Academic Spin-offs

Strengthening spin-offs of biomedical start-ups from academic institutions — the Forum Health Research has developed concrete recommendations for this purpose. The goal: to bring innovative biomedical…

25/07/2025

12th Munich Cancer Retreat

For scientific exchange, around 120 scientists and physicians of the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) partner site Munich participated the 12th Munich Cancer Retreat MCR12 on June 24 and 25, 2025 in…

09/07/2025

Helmholtz Doctoral Prize for Celia Dobersalske

At Helmholtz, nearly 9,000 doctoral candidates conduct research. Eleven of them have now been honored. Each year, Helmholtz awards the best and most original doctoral theses with the Doctoral Prize.…

04/07/2025

Project start for translational, DZG-overarching research projects in Dresden

Together against common diseases - that is the mission of the German Centers for Health Research (DZGs) and in Dresden they are focussing on neurodegeneration, diabetes and cancer as well as child and…

25/06/2025

The world’s first single-source photon-counting CT system for radiotherapy has been installed in Dresden

The OncoRay – National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology gets the world's first single-source photon-counting computer tomography (PCCT) system installed in a radiotherapy department. This…

06/06/2025

Colorectal cancer screening via smartphone?

Colorectal cancer screening programs are currently underutilized in Germany. This also applies to testing for blood in the stool. The immunological stool tests can detect tiny amounts of blood in the…

06/06/2025

Tumor diagnostics: AI model detects more than 170 types of cancer

The MRI image shows a brain tumor in an inauspicious location, – and a brain biopsy will entail high risks for the patient, who had consulted us due to double vision. Situations such as this case…

09/04/2025

Cancer, diabetes, child and adolescent health & neurodegenerative diseases: 7th Joint Dresden DZG Symposium once again brings together a large number of Dresden researchers

Once a year, the local DZG organize the Joint Dresden DZG Symposium, which took place for the seventh time on 27 March 2025 and this time was mainly hosted by the DZNE. The symposium, designed as an…

09/04/2025

New white paper: Guide to the national health data space

The eight German Centers for Health Research (DZG) have published a joint white paper: "Gesundheitsforschungsdaten: gemeinsam erschließen, effizienter forschen".

19/03/2025

New approach for T-cell immunotherapy against malignant brain tumors

Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the University Medical Center Mannheim (UMM) and at the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) have developed a promising cellular immunotherapy for…

28/02/2025

The language of organs: how faulty communication leads to disease

Changes in diet and the environment constantly pose new challenges to the human metabolism. Different organs and tissues work together in complex interactions to keep the metabolism in balance. The…

07/02/2025

PAMSARC: New study at the NCT Heidelberg links research and clinical action

Young patients suffering from two aggressive sarcoma types can now participate in the innovative PAMSARC therapy study at the NCT Heidelberg. The study uses molecular biological methods and tests the…

07/02/2025

New approaches against metastatic breast cancer: mini-tumors from circulating cancer cells

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the "germ cells" of breast cancer metastases. They are very rare and could not be propagated in the culture dish until now, which made research into therapy…

18/12/2024

HARPOON Conference 2024: New Horizons in Precision Oncology

The 5th HARPOON Conference, a collaboration between the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) and the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), took place on 21 and…

13/12/2024

Medical AI researcher Daniel Rückert receives Leibniz Prize

Computer scientist and AI researcher Prof. Daniel Rückert receives the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2025. The professor of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medicine and Healthcare at the Technical…

13/12/2024

Organoids represent the complex cell landscape of pancreatic cancer

A team led by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has, for the first time, grown tumor organoids – three-dimensional miniature tumors in the laboratory – that mimic the different…

06/12/2024

Translational medicine and scientific networking: The DZG Science & Career Day 2024 in Potsdam

On 7 and 8 November 2024, the second Science & Career Day of the German Centres for Health Research (DZG) took place at the German Institute of Human Nutrition (DIfE) in Potsdam. The event provided an…

29/11/2024

Chromosomal chaos promotes therapy resistance in leukemia cells and opens up new treatment approaches

Chromosomal instability plays a crucial role in the progression of cancer: it shapes the properties of tumor cells and drives the development of therapy resistance. Scientists from the German Cancer…