Professor Ugur Sahin erhält den Deutschen Krebspreis 2019 Mainz, 28. Februar 2019 – Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ugur Sahin hat den Deutschen Krebspreis 2019 erhalten – eine der angesehensten Auszeichnungen in der Krebsmedizin in Deutschland. Prof. Sahin erhält den Preis in der Kategorie Transferforschung für seine wegweisenden Arbeiten zu individualisierten Krebsimmuntherapien, insbesondere für die Entwicklung und klinische
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At the top of the world with personalized cancer immunotherapy
Official foundation ceremony of HI-TRON Mainz Mainz, February 14, 2019 – The new Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology (HI-TRON Mainz) is to become one of the world’s leading centers for personalized cancer immunotherapy. This is the ambitious goal of the cooperation partners German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Research Institute Translational Oncology (TRON gGmbH)
TRON celebrates young talent
Mainz, January 31, 2019 – TRON celebrates young talent TRON is sponsoring two scholarships in the Deutschlandstipendium 2018/2019 of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, thereby supporting two young medical students as part of this Federal Ministry of Education and Research program. On January 31st, the festive dinner for Deutschlandstipendium sponsors and scholarship holders took place
Harnessing Tumor Mutations for Truly Individualized Cancer Vaccines
Mainz, February 5, 2019 – TRON is thrilled to announce a review published in Annual Review of Medicine authored by Ugur Sahin. In this overview article targeting the medical community, Prof. Sahin defines the cancer mutanome and why this is a valuable source of potential vaccines targets in oncology. The review goes on to describe
Neoepitope specific T cells can be functionally irrelevant
Mainz, December, 2018 – TRON is proud to have taken part in the research that lead to this publication in OncoImmunology. This publication – in collaboration with scientists from BioNTech, DKFZ, JPT, and the University Medicine Mainz – points to hurdles on our way to highly personalized cancer immunotherapy. The research group investigated neoepitope-specific CD8+
Nanomedicine and macroscale materials in immuno-oncology
Mainz, November 27, 2018 – TRON is delighted to announce an article published in Chemical Society Reviews co-authored by Mustafa Diken. In collaboration with a European team of scientists working on nanomaterials in medicine, Dr. Diken provides an overview of the current state-of-the-art concerning nano- and macroscale materials and their application in immunotherapy. Covering current
TRON Presented its Expertise in “Life Sciences”
TRON published an advertorial in the November 2018 issue of the Life Sciences magazine published by goingpublic.de. The advert featured TRON’s core competences and highlighted our leading edge research accomplishments. A PDF version of this article is available for download (German only).
Mustafa Diken gives a lecture at the EMDS conference in Verona
Verona, September 27, 2018 – The Macrophage and Dendritic Cell Society is holding its 32nd annual meeting 27-29 September in beautiful Verona, Italy. This year’s theme is “the crossroad between macrophage and dendritic cells: from immunometabolism to single cell fate.” In this context, TRON’s Mustafa Diken is giving today’s Happy Hour Lecture, entitled “Bringing the
Djindjic Internship Programme
Mainz, September 2018 – TRON is proudly hosting a scholar from the Zoran Djindjic Program (ZDS). Created in 2003 after the assassination of the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Serbia, and supported by the German federal government, the aim of the program is to provide short internships in German institutions for highly qualified candidates
TRON Promotes Young Talents
Mainz, September 2018 – TRON is sponsoring two scholarships in the Deutschlandstipendium 2018/2019 of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, thereby supporting two young medical students as part of this Federal Ministry of Education and Research program. Scholarship holders were selected based on proven excellence, exceptional social commitment, and special social or family circumstances.
1st Science Day 2018 at the University Cancer Center Mainz
Mainz, September 6, 2018 – The University Cancer Center at the University Mainz is host to their 1st Science Day 2018 on September 6th 2018. The event features a variety of young investigators and established scientists presenting their research in the fields of cancer immunotherapy, genetic instability, epidemiology, or drug delivery. Our doctoral student Nadja
New ITN addresses the studies of pathological processes in cardiovascular diseases
Mainz, August 22, 2018 – The Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH) at the University Medical Center Mainz is host to a new Innovative Training Network (ITN) „TICARDIO – Thrombo-Inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease“. It will address the studies of pathological processes in cardiovascular diseases. The ITN offers 15 science graduate students the opportunity to develop
