Archive | News

TRON unterstützt das Anliegen der Landesregierung und tritt gemeinsam mit der Landesregierung für unsere Grundwerte ein. Nur gemeinsam können wir zeigen, dass die Mehrheit für Respekt und gegen Hass steht. „Rheinland-Pfalz ist ein lebenswertes und weltoffenes Land. Das wollen wir auch in Zukunft sein. Deshalb finden wir uns nicht damit ab, dass der Umgang auf

Although chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-modified T cells (CAR T-cells) have been shown to be effective against hematological malignancies, evidence of their potential against immune-suppressive solid tumors is missing. Key challenges for this include the selection of tumor-specific targets and the persistence of CAR-T cells upon adoptive transfer.  In this study, teams from Biontech and TRON

Mainz, December 9, 2019 – TRON founders Ugur Sahin and Özlem Türeci have been named among the Top 20 Translational Researchers (2018) for the 2nd time by Nature Biotechnology.    Nature Biotechnology’s ranking is based on the number of total patents (US and European) awarded, the researcher’s top-cited patent over the past 5 years and

After the Healthcare Hackathon at the University Medical Center Mainz, the next round started on September 2nd and 3rd in Berlin. A total of 24 interdisciplinary teams took part in this relaxed competition to develop technology-based solutions for medical applications and care within the scope of their projects. TRON was also represented by Jonas Ibn-Salem

At the annual meeting of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) in 2019, six scientists received the CIMT Poster Award. Thomas Rösler, a scientist from TRON, won the prize in the category ‘Therapeutic Vaccination’ for his work ‘Modelling immunogenicity with omics data integration’ (Abstract 37). He presented his algorithm TOPAZ, which defines candidates for cancer

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)

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

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