Donation-Marathon of the Frankfurt Fools
The Frankfurter Karneval-Verein 1911 and its MaaGard and the 1st Nieder Carneval Club initiated a great fundraising campaign in December 2021: Under the motto “Frankfurter Vereine vereinen sich” (Frankfurt clubs unite), the two clubs called for a donation marathon. A proud 1,722…
On a social mission
Research and development cost money. A medium-sized company like the East Westphalian drive manufacturer Marantec Antriebs- und Steuerungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG knows only too well. Normally, sales staff like Jürgen Stoller and Dirk Arnold, who are on the road for the company…
Visit from Secret Santa Vincent from Nied
On 30 December 2021, we had a visit from Secret Santa Vincent from Nied. He came accompanied by Mary Massieu and brought a Christmas present for the children and young people with cancer: 900 euros, which had been collected in the course of the year in the Nidda-Kampfbahn restau…
Edmund and Irmgard Römer Foundation helps researchers
Human cytomegalovirus infections often have a poor prognosis for disease in immunocompromised cancer patients. While the virus is known to cause pneumonia and diarrhoeal disease, work from the Interdisciplinary Paediatric Tumour and Virus Research Laboratory shows that it also h…
Thanks to the Heinz and Elfriede Ganß Foundation
The Heinz and Elfriede Ganß Foundation supports with 20,000 euros the acquisition of a required large-capacity nitrogen freezer for the storage of the worldwide unique cell bank with chemotherapy-resistant cancer cells, the “Resistant Cancer Cell Line Collection (RCCL Collection…
Donating instead of giving
A big THANK YOU goes to the two managing directors Frank Erasmi and Gilbert Giura from NEXA Spedition GmbH in Hattersheim, who spontaneously visited us in our Research House on 22 December 2021. As in previous years, they again waived Christmas presents to their customers in 202…
8 years of helping children’s cancer research
We were delighted when Markus Bernsteiner from the company Arnold GmbH in Frankfurt came to visit the Research House again in 2021 – and brought a donation of 1,500 euros with him. For the eighth year in a row, Markus Bernsteiner did not miss the opportunity to give children’s c…
What research and prototyping have in common
A heartfelt THANK YOU to Sven Mattis, owner of the company WCP in Messel, for another valuable donation of 10,000 euros for children’s cancer research. Sven Mattis sees a close connection between his field of activity and research. With this in mind, he has been supporting child…
