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Researchers at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) have achieved outstanding success at this year’s world-leading forum for medical image processing and computer-assisted intervention. Two DKFZ departments competed in eight international AI competitions – and won seven of them. The successes cover key areas of oncology – from early detection and diagnosis to therapy support […]

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Emmy Noether project led by Jens Puschhof from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ). With this project, the junior researcher aims to decipher the role of certain intestinal bacteria in the earliest stages of colorectal cancer development and investigate how this process can be halted. The […]

Daniel Kirschenbaum has developed an experimental method for investigating immune responses in living organisms with high temporal resolution. The technique enabled him and his colleagues to reconstruct the temporal sequence of the immune response in malignant brain tumors for the first time. This opens up new perspectives for the development of targeted and temporally precise […]

– Achieving Over 90% Accuracy, Wins First Place at GICHD-Sponsored Awards – Tokyo, Japan, October 29, 2025 — NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC, *1), the national institution responsible for landmine clearance activities in Cambodia, with assistance from JICA (*2), conducted a proof-of-concept using AI to predict landmine-contaminated areas. This […]

Ladenburg, Germany, 6 November 2025 – Heidelberg Pharma AG (FSE: HPHA), a clinical-stage biotech company developing innovative Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCs), today announced that HDP-101 (INN: pamlectabart tismanitin), the Company’s lead ATAC candidate for the treatment of relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, shows further clinical activity in Cohort 8 at a dose level of 140 µg/kg. These […]

EMBL researchers have been using a powerful technique called expansion microscopy to peek deeper inside living organisms and understand how they function One day in 2020, in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, EMBL Group Leader Gautam Dey received a Zoom call from his collaborator and fellow cell biologist Omaya Dudin. Dudin, who led a research group at […]

EMBL scientists improve a protein analysis technique, significantly expanding its use and making it 100 times faster – a development that could accelerate drug discovery and fundamental biological research Summary Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius, in a letter to a fellow chemist, first suggested the name ‘proteins’ for a particular class of biological substances, deriving […]

On the trail of contacts: European Research Council funds pioneering MitoContact project to investigate communication between mitochondria and other cell components Kai Johnsson, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, has been awarded a Synergy Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). In the funded project MitoContact, he will work with two scientists from Switzerland to […]

European Research Council awards prestigious funding for complex research projects Scientists at Heidelberg University are to receive two prestigious ERC Synergy Grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC) for groundbreaking research projects that will be carried out jointly by several teams. Prof. Dr Dr Amir Abdollahi is coordinating a tri-national collaboration with colleagues in […]