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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…

13/11/2024

11th Munich Cancer Retreat

At the 11th Munich Cancer Retreat (MCR11) on October 21 and 22, 2024, the DKTK partner site Munich prepared for the upcoming evaluation of the German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) end of 2025 and presented…

06/11/2024

DKTK School of Oncology Tech Talk: “Multiscale microscopy to understand systemic cancer immunotherapy“

In the third DKTK School of Oncology Tech Talk of 2024 on Monday September 23th, Prof. Dr. Bettina Weigelin from the DKTK partner site Tübingen highlighted the role of microscopic imaging in…

18/10/2024

CCE’s Summer School Unites Scientists and Clinicians from Around the World to Shape the Future of Cancer Care

For the eight-time, Cancer Core Europe hosted and organized its Summer School in Translational Cancer Research, bringing together a multidisciplinary group of junior investigators and clinicians eager…

23/08/2024

Researchers from Charité are developing new methods to use the internal clock inside tumor cells to optimize cancer therapies

How effective medications are depends on various factors, including the time of day when they are administered. Why? Because our bodies don’t always function exactly the same. Instead, they follow the…

07/08/2024

Two LMU scholars receive funding of over a million euros each

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has awarded Reinhart Koselleck funding to two LMU scholars: leukemia specialist Irmela Jeremias, scientist of the German Cancer Consortium, partner site Munich,…

07/08/2024

Surprising finding in glioblastomas: Islands of potent immune cells in the local bone marrow

Glioblastomas are highly aggressive, usually incurable brain tumors. If all therapeutic options are exhausted, patients have an average life expectancy of less than two years. Now researchers from the…

24/07/2024

Salute to cutting-edge research: EKFS awards Publication Prizes 2024

The foundation Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung (EKFS) announced the prizewinners of its Publication Prizes for this year. The distinction is honoring five research scientists, including three…

17/07/2024

Successful research in first comprehensive study of the genome and proteome

Multiple myeloma is one of the most common forms of cancer of the immune cells in the bone marrow. It is considered incurable. Even when patients respond to treatment at first, the cancer comes back.…

15/07/2024

New management of the CCP-Bio

Dr. Heidi Altmann and Dr. Katja Steiger have taken over the management of the CCP-Bio (networked biobanking) from Prof. Michael Hummel within the DKTK Clinical Communication Platform (CCP) in the…

11/07/2024

2nd DZG Munich Day: Together against common diseases

Research for health and the prevention and better treatment of common diseases are the goals of the German Centers for Health Research (DZG). At the 2nd DZG Munich Day on July 12, 2024, the eight DZG…

08/07/2024

DKTK Young Academics Conference 2024

On Friday, June 7, this year’s Postdoc Symposium including the DKTK Young Academics Conference 2024 took place at the DKFZ Communication Center. The PDN-Committee, supported by the Postdoc Office and…

19/06/2024

Project start for translational, cross-DZG research project in Dresden

United against common diseases! This is the mission of the German Centers for Health Research (DZG). Their scientists are working to optimize the translation of research results into patient care,…

11/06/2024

DKTK Munich: Phagocytes from the culture dish for cancer therapy

Cell-based cancer therapies often fail nowadaystoday because the immune cells are unable to penetrate the tumor efficiently. The use of certain phagocytes is considered a promising alternative - but…

08/05/2024

Newly discovered mechanism of T-cell control can interfere with cancer immunotherapies

Activated T cells that carry a certain marker protein on their surface are controlled by natural killer (NK) cells, another cell type of the immune system. In this way, the body presumably curbs…

26/04/2024

Tumor cells evade the immune system early on

Tumors actively prevent the formation of immune responses by so-called cytotoxic T cells, which are essential in combating cancer. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the…