Research for a life without cancer
At the DKFZ, we want to ensure that fewer people develop cancer, that cancer can be cured or treated so effectively that those affected can live with the disease and grow old with a good quality of life.
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The European Research Council (ERC) supports visionary projects in basic research through its “Advanced Grants.” This year, the Council awarded a grant to cancer researcher and physician Dieter Saur from the DKTK Munich* site, who is investigating why immunotherapies against pancreatic cancer are often ineffective today and developing ways to make them more efficacious. Aurelio Teleman, a metabolism expert at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), is tackling one of the fundamental questions of developmental biology with his ERC project: How do animals control their growth and size?
Our research opens doors in the fight against cancer
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