09/22/2021 RCI Scientist receives the Humboldt Research Fellowship RCI scientist, Mario Lecce, PhD, has received the prestigious Humboldt Research Fellowship, which addresses and supports post-doctoral researchers with outstanding qualifications. Read more
07/07/2021 RCI receives the Total E-Quality Award The Total E-Quality award was created in 1996 to produce and promote awareness about gender-equality in the workplace. The award has a duration of three years. The 2021-2023 TOTAL E-QUALITY Award... Read more
07/02/2021 RCI joins the Federal and State Funding of the Leibniz Association to become the “Leibniz Institute for Immunotherapy Newly Announced Federal and State Funding for Regensburg Center Opens New Era of Cutting Edge Research for Prestigious Medical Institute During today’s meeting, the Joint Science Conference of the... Read more
05/17/2021 RCI scientist wins CIMT Audience Choice Award The CIMT Annual Meeting Poster Jury awards each year six-early-career researchers. RCI scientist Valentina Volpin, Ph.D, has received the 2021 CMIT Audience Choice award for her e-talk: "The ... Read more
03/30/2021 Human immune cells can be programmed to repair tissue damage The immune system’s main function is to defend the body against infections or cancer. In recent years, investigations in mice revealed that immune cells also have the important role of supporting the... Read more
03/10/2021 Footprints on the genome – how immune cells orchestrate their functions All cells in our body contain the entire genomic information that is necessary for the organism to survive. Because each single cell fulfills specific tasks in the body, it uses only parts of this... Read more
02/24/2021 A good/bad turn: breast cancer hijacks developing-killer cells to acquire cancer promoting features Regulatory T cells (Treg) are a type of immune cells that protect tissues from dysregulated immune attack. Unfortunately, these cells also inhibit tumor destruction and release molecules that promote... Read more
02/08/2021 PopDel, a new software to detect large DNA deletions The human genome contains roughly three million letters. On average, the genome sequences of any two people differ from each other by about one in every 1,000 letters. Yet different variants occur,... Read more
01/25/2021 RCI rides high towards the Leibniz Association The Regensburg Center for Interventional Immunology (RCI) received today the final evaluation by the German Council of Science and Humanities, with regard to its application to join the Leibniz... Read more
11/16/2020 Robert-Koch-Award 2020 to Shimon Sakaguchi Immunologist Shimon Sakaguchi, a member of the RCI Scientific Advisory Board, is honored with the Robert-Koch-Award this year. Read more
