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Lukas Bunse from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg and the University Hospital Mannheim receives this year's Swiss Bridge award. Bunse shares the award with a Swiss scientist. Both of them receive 250,000 Swiss francs for the implementation of their research projects.

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With Collaborative Research Centres (CRCs), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) allows researchers to tackle innovative, challenging, complex and long-term research undertakings through the coordination and concentration of individuals and resources within the applicant universities. The new CRC 1389 "Understanding and targeting resistance in glioblastoma – UNITEGLIOBLASTOMA" aims to develop concepts to predict and monitor treatment response and failure, and ultimately, to invent novel therapies for glioblastoma patients.

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Prof. Dr. Michael Platten has been awarded the German Cancer Award 2019, one of the most prestigious distinctions in cancer medicine in Germany. Prof. Platten receives the award in the category Clinical Research for his work on immunotherapies for glioma, in particular for the discovery and development of a vaccine against IDH1 (isocitrate dehydrogenase 1), a common mutation found in low-grade gliomas. 

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