We are laying the foundations for personalized therapies by developing strategies for novel immunotherapeutic approaches or clinically relevant biomarkers.
The registration is now open: Join the “curAHack 2025” - the curATime (Bio-) Hackathon in Mainz
2.5 days of interdisciplinary hacking, problem solving and networking - March 31 - April 2, 2025, Gutenberg Digital Hub, Mainz
Read more
Succesful cooperation with Israel is funded for another 3 years
Promising results of the first phase led to the decision of further funding by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Together with Prof. Yardena Samuels from the Weizmann Institute of Science, we investigate intratumoral heterogeneity in melanoma and select promising neoantigen candidates suitable for vaccine studies.
Read more
curATalk seminar series
Join us for our next curATalk by Prof. Miguel Andrade who is heading the Computational Biology and Data Mining group at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz. In his seminar, Miguel will talk about “Computational approaches for the prediction of gene and protein function”.
Read more
curATalk seminar series
Our next curATalk will take place on Nov 26th. Our speaker will be Prof. Martin Zörnig from the ForTra gGmbH für Forschungstransfer der Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung. In his talk “Introducing ForTra - Promoting the translation of medical research results into clinical application”, he will present ForTra’s funding opportunities to curATime members and everyone who is interested.
Read more
Seminars in Translational Science
Our next invited speaker will be Prof. Dr Rajkumar Savai from the Justus Liebig University in Giessen. He is going to join us at TRON on November 21st, 2024. We are looking forward to his talk “Neighbourhood watch in lung cancer: How immune cells and microenvironment interactions shape tumor outcome” and to exchange our scientific insights.
Read more
curATalk seminar series
We are looking forward to our next on-site curATalk, which will be held on Nov 6th by Bernd Engelmann from the University Hospital Munich at the Ludwigs-Maximilians University. He will speak about his research on “Immune cell specificity of immunothrombosis control”.
Read more
curATalk seminar series
Please join our next curATalk on the topic “Sex differences in coronary artery disease” by Dr. Lena Seegers from the University Clinic Frankfurt on October 31st at 5 PM.
Read more
curATalk seminar series
We are looking forward to our next on-site curATalks, which will be held on October 2nd. This time we welcome Prof. Laura Zelaráyan-Behrend and Dr. Florian A. Weinberger to Mainz. Laura and Florian will tell us about "Restoration of endogenous transcription factor activity by CRISPRa to prevent cardiac failure” and “Pluripotent stem cell derived cardiomyocytes for cardiac repair - pharmacological considerations”, respectively.
Read more
New research collaboration with bYoRNA SAS
The collaboration will focus on the production of mRNA using bYoRNA’s disruptive bioproduction technology to help develop the therapeutic potential of mRNA.
Read more
Spektakuläre archäologische Funde aus der Römerzeit auf unserem Baufeld
Nicht nur Straßen und Fußbodenheizungen, sondern auch eine Genius Statue, ein Grab mit Grabstele, hunderte von Münzen, Tonscherben, Tierknochen und sogar Fensterglas sind bisher auf unserem Baufeld in der Mainzer Oberstadt geborgen worden.
Read more
Mainzer Firmenlauf 2024 - unser TRON-Team war wieder dabei!
In diesem Jahr hat sich das TRON Laufteam mit 36 Läufern auf die 5km lange Strecke durch die Mainzer Innenstadt gemacht. Ein Team, das zusammen läuft, gewinnt zusammen!
Read more
ATLAS PhD program: 3rd Call for Application is now open!
The Talent Academy for TransLAtional Science (ATLAS) is offering five fully funded PhD positions in the fields of tumor biology, immunotherapy and bioinformatics.
Read more
Im Gespräch mit biomindz zur Geschichte des TRON
In Mainz entstehen wegweisende Innovationen im Bereich Life Sciences. Wir sind ein stolzer Teil davon und freuen uns sehr, dass wir uns jetzt in einem exklusiven und persönlichen Storytelling-Format der biomindz vorstellen können.
Read more
„Mensch und Wachstum“ auf dem Gutenbergplatz in Mainz
Mitten in Mainz finden am Wochenende des 07. & 08. September spannende und anschauliche Experimente und Aktionen von Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern statt.
Read more
Neues von der Baustelle – hoher Besuch aus Politik und Forschung
Mainz soll ein innovativer Biotechnologie-Standort werden – und wir sind Teil davon.
Read more
In den Sommerferien im Labor
In der Woche vom 15.07.-19.07.2024 waren Oberstufenschüler:innen bei uns am TRON, um erste Laboreindrücke zu bekommen.
Read more
Wir sind Teil der Biotechnologie-Initiative Rheinland-Pfalz!
Ein aktueller Imagefilm des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz und der Landeshauptstadt Mainz zeigt auf, welche Stärken und Perspektiven der Standort für Unternehmen, Start-ups und Forschende bietet.
Read more
Seminars in Translational Science
We are looking forward to the visit of Dr Hien T. Dang from the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia to TRON on June 26th, 2024. While being here, Hien will present her research and will talk about “Small but mighty: How small changes can alter a cancer cell progression”.
Read more
TRON's contribution to Curious2024 - ATLAS-PhD-Workshop - Working with Pioneers
We are eagerly awaiting the Curious2024 Future Insight Conference on July 10th and 11th, 2024 at Rheingoldhalle Mainz. Together with BioNTech, we are organizing a workshop to present our PhD program ATLAS to interested young scientists.
Read more
Seminars in Translational Science
On June 12th 2024, we are welcoming Prof Dr Véronique Orian-Rousseau from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to TRON. During her visit, she will talk about “The different facets of CD44 in gastrointestinal tumour progression and metastasis”.
Read more
curATalk seminar series
We are loking forward to our first on-site curATalk, which will be held by Prof. Alice Assinger from the Medical University in Vienna. Join us, if like to listen to her seminar about "Platelets in Infection: A Battle of Wits " on June 13th, at 5:15 pm.
Read more
Meenzer Science Schoppe - wir sind dabei!
Die Mainzer Wissenschaftsallianz beschäftigt sich dieses Jahr mit dem Thema “Mensch und Wachstum”. Um dieses einem breiten Publikum in Mainz vorzustellen, gibt es die Vortragsreihe “Meenzer Science-Schoppe”. Mit dem Beitrag über Krebs”wachstum” und Metastasierung teilt Boris Strilic am 15.05.2024 im Weinhaus Michel sein Wissen.
Read more
TRON sponsors the 21st CIMT Annual Meeting
We are excited to support Europe's leading communications and networking platform for cancer immunology! 66 TRON Scientists will attend the three days meeting in Rheingoldhalle in Mainz. We are very much looking forward to fruitful discussions and exchange!
Read more
Joining forces against cancer
As an outcome of a longstanding collaboration with the Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, promising results for the treatment of radioresistant tumors have been published.
Read more
curATalk seminar series
We are looking forward to our next speaker within the curATime seminar series, Dr. Laura Bindila from the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany. We invite everyone to join her seminar about "Modern lipidomics approaches for clinical and preclinical research and profiling" on April 18th, at 5 pm.
Read more