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DFG grants around 35,6 million euros to extend two transregional consortia and one CRC Heidelberg University has been successful in the current approval round of the German Research Foundation (DFG) with three grant applications for major research consortia. In the life sciences and medicine, a Collaborative Research Centre working on the Wnt signaling pathway will […]

Jens Puschhof, junior research group leader at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), receives the 2026 Research Award from the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation. The foundation honors the young scientist for his research on the influence of bacteria on the development and spread of cancer. Jens Puschhof is analyzing the close interactions between tumor […]

The TRANSCAN-3 project (T-PLEX EAC), funded by the European Union, is approaching the end of its second year with significant progress in developing personalized adoptive T cell therapies for patients with esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC). EAC remains the most common esophageal cancer in Western populations, and despite advances in chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery, only around 20% […]

New research suggests that inflammatory support cells play a key role in damaging bone marrow early in cancer development – potentially offering a new target for treatments that stop blood disorders before becoming cancerous. Summary The following news article is an amended version of a news release from UMC Mainz Office of Communications, published with […]

New Haven, CT, USA, November 25, 2025 – BioMed X, a leading external innovation hub for pharma, announced today the launch of a new collaborative research project with AbbVie, hosted at the BioMed X Institute in New Haven, Connecticut. The topic of the new research project in the field of neuroscience is the development of “Circuit-Based Model […]

EMBL-EBI receives UKRI Medical Research Council (MRC) and National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) funding for enhancing and translating mental-health omics data into the Open Targets Platform Summary Identifying targets for new treatments for mental health conditions could become faster, thanks to a new initiative that, for the first time, will bring patient […]

Motion patterns help the transition between tissue compartments – explanation for asymmetry in the body plan of the pathogen With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the malaria parasite. After penetrating the skin, the pathogen moves with helical trajectories. It almost always turns […]

HEILBRONN, Germany and BOSTON, Nov. 20, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — ProtaGene, a leading global contract research organization (CRO) dedicated to advanced analytics for biologics and cell and gene therapies, today announced additional investment from Ampersand Capital Partners. Given the critical importance of advanced bioanalytics and product characterization for developing increasingly complex therapeutics, Ampersand has invested nearly $40 million within the past year […]

Physician and cancer researcher Mirco Julian Friedrich from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the stem cell research institute HI-STEM*, and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD) has received two awards for two independent research projects: The Beug Foundation has honored his novel approach to preventing liver metastases with the Metastasis Prize 2025. The Kind-Philipp Research Prize […]