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August 23, 2025
BioMed X and Novo Nordisk Launch New Collaboration in Oral Peptide Drug Delivery
The initiative aims to identify and support new ideas for innovative oral formulations for peptide drugs such as GLP-1 receptor agonists via BioMed X’s global talent sourcing and incubation model. Heidelberg, Germany, August 19th, 2025. BioMed X, an independent biomedical research institute based in Heidelberg, Germany, announced today the launch of a new collaboration with Novo Nordisk, […]
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August 23, 2025
FOXP1 syndrome: Potential therapeutic approach discovered for rare language development disorder
FOXP1 syndrome is a congenital disorder in which the brain development of affected children is severely impaired due to a genetic variant. To date, there are no treatments that target the root cause of the disorder. A research team from the Medical Faculty Heidelberg at Heidelberg University has now demonstrated in mice, that the inhibition […]
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August 23, 2025
International Research Award in Dentistry goes to Heidelberg Institute of Global Health
A great honor for Professor Dr. Dr. Stefan Listl from the Medical Faculty of Heidelberg University: The International Association for Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (IADR) honored him at its annual meeting with the prestigious Distinguished Scientist Award in the field of social science, epidemiology, and health services research. This award is one of the […]
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August 23, 2025
Possible target for new immunotherapy
A research team led by the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Luxembourg Institute of Health has found a key mechanism that weakens the immune system in chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). The scientists were able to show that the protein galectin-9 plays a key role in blocking the function of T cells, which are […]
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July 31, 2025
New Member: Welcome in our cluster to Fab’ulous SAS
Fabulous accelerates antibody discovery with a fully computational, AI-powered approach that delivers preclinical ready human antibodies in just 3–5 days. Starting from your scientific problem, it designs candidates using curated human sequence data and in silico maturation to mimic natural immune evolution. This process enhances affinity, thermostability, and expression while reducing off-target binding. Each sequence […]
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July 31, 2025
AGC Biologics’ Heidelberg Site Supplies Drug Substance for Phase II Studies of Valneva’s Tetravalent Shigella Vaccine Candidate
SEATTLE AND HEIDELBERG – July 29, 2025 – AGC Biologics, your friendly CDMO expert, today announced a development and manufacturing services agreement with specialty vaccine company Valneva SE (Nasdaq: VALN; Euronext Paris: VLA) to supply drug substance for an investigational four-valent Shigella bioconjugate vaccine at the CDMO’s Heidelberg facility. Valneva exclusively licensed the vaccine candidate from LimmaTech Biologics AG, which […]
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July 31, 2025
From bench to code: collaboration unlocks insights into Alzheimer’s disease
How a chance encounter at a scientific conference resulted in a fruitful cross-Atlantic research collaboration In 2023, EMBL-EBI Postdoctoral Fellow Iguaracy Pinheiro de Sousa presented his bioinformatics work on how cells communicate within the heart, as part of the Network Biology meeting in Cold Spring Harbour, New York. “I met Yifei Cai during the opening […]
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July 31, 2025
Beyond 1000 genomes: going deeper and wider
Ten years after the end of the 1000 Genomes Project, brand new insights emerge from its sample set, providing a more complete view of human genetic variation than ever before Summary Completed in 2003, the Human Genome Project gave us the first sequence of the human genome, albeit based on DNA from a small handful […]
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July 31, 2025
NADHJA – Development of a miniaturized measurement system for non-invasive detection of the acute individual metabolic state using artificial intelligence
Lactate diagnostics is particularly important in sports medicine performance diagnostics and has been carried out conventionally for almost 100 years using blood samples and laboratory analyses. This project aims to develop a measurement method and functional model of a mobile device based on the NADHJA analyzer from mfd Diagnostics GmbH, which uses a fluorescence-optical method […]
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