News

We are thrilled to announce that Frank Buchholz has been awarded the highly competitive European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant.

Our research group has received funding of 117,000 EUR for our research project titled "Pioneering molecular surgery with CRISPR technologies for personalized lung cancer therapy."

Take a look at this news article about SaxoCell, a research cluster funded by the BMBF, in which our lab is actively involved!

We are excited to host the upcoming DG-GT Annual Meeting in Dresden, focusing on the theme “From lab to life – Genome editing towards therapies”. We are organising the event together with Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gentherapie e.V. and SaxoCell.

Liliya Mukhametzyanova was awarded the Commerzbank Foundation's Dr Walter Seipp Prize for her dissertation on ‘Increasing the utility of evolved site-specific recombinases for genome editing’. With this award, the foundation honours Liliya's excellent research work.

We are excited to share that SaxoCell has been chosen by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and an independent expert panel to receive funding for a second phase in the Clusters4Future initiative.