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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

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

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

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

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.