Figures and Facts
Important milestones:
- 1964 DKFZ was founded
- 1977 DKFZ joined the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- 2001 DKFZ joined the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (HGF)
- 2003 The National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg was set up
- 2007 Alliance of DKFZ and the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH)
- 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Professor Harald zur Hausen
- 2012 Launch of the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)
- 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Professor Stefan W. Hell
Staff, total: 3,421 (as of August 2024), including
- Staff scientists: 1,467
- of which doctoral students: 535
- Scientific-technical infrastructure: 537
- Administration, management, basic services: 1267
- Assistants, trainees: 87
- Apprentices: 53
- "Bundesfreiwilligendienstler": 10
855 foreign employees from 88 nations (as of August 2024)
Total budget: EUR 319 million (2019) from basic funding, project funding and own revenues
Over 100 departments and research groups
More than 20 Core Facilities
Five Research Programs
Technology transfer: 1,911 intellectual property rights and 301 patent families (as of December 2019)
Support of 12 spin-off projects
Partial ownership of 13 enterprises