May 13, 2025

Visit by Prof. Renata Stripecke from University Hospital Cologne

On May 15th, Prof. Renata Stripecke from the Institute of Translational Immune-Oncology at the Cancer Research Center Cologne Essen will visit us.

May 12, 2025

curATalk seminar series

We are looking forward to our next on-site curATalks on May 15th with Carolin Lerchenmüller, Professor of Gender Medicine, and Marc Lerchenmüller, Assistant Professor of Technological Innovation and Management.

May 6, 2025

TRON Insights at the upcoming CIMT Annual Meeting 2025

TRON scientist ‌Ayline Kübler has been chosen for a short talk at the upcoming 22nd CIMT Annual Meeting starting on May 12th, 2025. Her talk will address the use of cationic RNA-lipoplexes (LPX) to target tumor tissue in lung for delivery of mRNA-encoded cytokines.

May 2, 2025

New cooperation funded by the National Strategy for Gene and Cell-based Therapies.

We have initiated a new cooperation project with the University Medical Center Mainz within the Translational Tandem Program (nTTP-GCT) together with Prof. Daniel Dürr.

April 3, 2025

Seminars in Translational Science

As our next SITO speaker we kindly invited Dr. Altuna Akalin from the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in Berlin. He will give an overview about “How AI will reshape life sciences research: Examples from drug development and healthcare”.

March 27, 2025

Seminars in Translational Science

We are looking forward to the exciting talk of our next speaker. Prof. Dr. Dr. Ihsan Ekin Demir from the Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich is visiting TRON to give an overview about his research on the influence of the nervous system on the formation and progression of pancreatic cancer.

March 19, 2025

We are proud sponsor of CIMT 2025!

We are happy to be sponsor of the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT), an international meeting with a longstanding history in Mainz.

March 14, 2025

curATalk seminar series

We are looking forward to our upcoming curATalk by Prof. G. Daniel Dürr, who is Section Chief of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Surgery at the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Center Mainz. During his talk about “Modern cardiac surgery and basic research - crossing the translational divide” he will show us how important cardiac surgery is for implementing new strategies for cardiovascular research.

March 10, 2025

Seminars in Translational Science

We are looking forward to host our next guest speaker Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans Josef Neubauer from the University Hospital and Medical Faculty of the Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf!

January 20, 2025

Seminars in Translational Science

We are happy to welcome Dr. Franziska Blaeschke from the KiTZ for a talk on “Modular Pooled Knockin Screens: Reprogramming Therapeutic T Cells” at TRON!

January 2, 2025

curATalk seminar series

Our first curATime speaker of the year will be Prof. Heinz Handels who is leading the Research Department “AI in Medical Image and Signal Processing” at the DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence) in Lübeck. He further holds the position of Director of the Institute of Medical Informatics at the University of Lübeck. With his talk about “AI in Medical Image Computing” he will give us and and our community interesting insights about the application of AI in medicine.

December 11, 2024

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

December 1, 2024

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.

November 27, 2024

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”.

November 25, 2024

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.

November 13, 2024

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.

November 5, 2024

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”.

October 22, 2024

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.

October 1, 2024

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.

September 17, 2024

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.

September 6, 2024

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.

September 3, 2024

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!

August 30, 2024

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.

August 29, 2024

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.

August 27, 2024

„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.

August 16, 2024

Neues von der Baustelle – hoher Besuch aus Politik und Forschung

Mainz soll ein innovativer Biotechnologie-Standort werden – und wir sind Teil davon.

July 23, 2024

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.

July 8, 2024

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.

June 24, 2024

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”.

June 18, 2024

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.

Ugur Sahin

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ugur Sahin is a doctor of medicine, immunologist and cancer researcher. His key focus is translating groundbreaking novel scientific ideas into medical innovations that help individual patients, an interest that was originally prompted by his experiences as a physician. His key contributions in cancer immunotherapy cover various fields, including the discovery of tumor-associated antigens, the development of Zolbetuximab and similar novel “ideal” monoclonal antibodies (IMABs) for the treatment of solid cancers, and diverse classes of RNA-based immunotherapies. Together with his team, he pioneered the concept of individualized cancer immunotherapies and in particular the development of mRNA-based vaccines that are tailored to each patient´s cancer mutation profile. Ugur is a Professor at the University Medical Center of Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU) Mainz, and co-founder and shareholder of TRON. He was TRON´s scientific managing director from 2010 until September 2019. With like-minded partners, he co-founded successful spin-offs from JGU, such as Ganymed Pharmaceuticals AG and BioNTech SE, the latter of which he is CEO, and co-initiated Cluster for Individualized Immune Intervention (Ci3). Ugur is also Chair of the Scientific Directorate of the Helmholtz Institute HI-TRON Mainz. Ugur closely supports TRON as a strategic and scientific advisor as well as supervisor and mentor for TRON’s PhD students. He is the recipient of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany as well as various other prizes, and scholarships and honorary doctorates.

We are laying the foundations for personalized therapies by developing strategies for novel immunotherapeutic approaches or clinically relevant biomarkers.

Visit by Prof. Renata Stripecke from University Hospital Cologne

curATalk seminar series

TRON Insights at the upcoming CIMT Annual Meeting 2025

New cooperation funded by the National Strategy for Gene and Cell-based Therapies.

Seminars in Translational Science

Seminars in Translational Science

We are proud sponsor of CIMT 2025!

curATalk seminar series

Seminars in Translational Science

Seminars in Translational Science

curATalk seminar series

The registration is now open: Join the “curAHack 2025” - the curATime (Bio-) Hackathon in Mainz

Succesful cooperation with Israel is funded for another 3 years

curATalk seminar series

curATalk seminar series

Seminars in Translational Science

curATalk seminar series

curATalk seminar series

curATalk seminar series

New research collaboration with bYoRNA SAS

Spektakuläre archäologische Funde aus der Römerzeit auf unserem Baufeld

Mainzer Firmenlauf 2024 - unser TRON-Team war wieder dabei!

ATLAS PhD program: 3rd Call for Application is now open!

Im Gespräch mit biomindz zur Geschichte des TRON

„Mensch und Wachstum“ auf dem Gutenbergplatz in Mainz

Neues von der Baustelle – hoher Besuch aus Politik und Forschung

In den Sommerferien im Labor

Wir sind Teil der Biotechnologie-Initiative Rheinland-Pfalz!

Seminars in Translational Science

TRON's contribution to Curious2024 - ATLAS-PhD-Workshop - Working with Pioneers