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The former Bavarian State Minister for Science and the Arts, Dr. Thomas Goppel, and Ministerial Councilor Florian Albert visited on September 21, 2023, to get information about the latest developments...

Dr. Christian Schmidl was awarded the Regensburg Oncology Prize on July 5, 2023 (1st place in the category basic research).

CAR T-REX Consortium announces prestigious €2.7M Pathfinder Open Grant awarded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) to develop novel, scalable CAR T cell therapies with increased efficacy for the...

The prestigious Johann Georg Zimmermann Medal was awarded this year to LIT scientist Prof. Dr. Hinrich Abken in recognition of his lifetime achievements.

T cells, as part of our immune system, can potentially infiltrate tumors and kill cancer cells but often get worn out – “exhausted”, which puts a break on the anti-cancer immune reaction.

LIT scientist Sebastian Bittner recieved the Biopark Innovation Prize 2022 for his research in the field of cell therapy for the treatment of autoimmune diseases.

Prof. Luca Gattinoni receives 1.250 million euros from the German Research Foundation for a Reinhart Koselleck project that aims at studying wether mesenchymal stromal cells can boost memory T cell...

An estimated 5-8 percent of the world's population suffers from an autoimmune disease. Autoimmunity is a misdirected immune response against one's own organism. This erroneous reaction is the...

The European Innovation Council has recognized the visionary thinking of the LIT scientists by awarding 3.789.472 Euros to the LIT-led international consortium of academy and industry partners. The...

LIT scientist Christian Schmidl received an award for his poster “Integrated single-cell profiling dissects cell-state-specific enhancer landscapes of human tumor infiltrating T cells”, at the Cancer...