Blood cancer: When drugs work
New marker found for the treatment of leukaemia patients
Patients suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) – a certain form of blood cancer – are treated with the help of chemotherapy. Often, the active substances Decitabine and Azacitidine – so-called DNA methyltransferase…
Financial resources for research
Dr. Sjoerd van Wijk, group leader at the Institute of Experimental Cancer Research in Pediatrics, received a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG) to further expand his own research group working on the regulation of ubiquitination in cell fate control. Previo…
Funding for Mildred Scheel Young Investigators Centre
The Mildred Scheel Young Investigators Centre in Frankfurt, whose spokesperson is Prof. Simone Fulda, is receiving funding of 10 million euros from German Cancer Aid. This makes the Department of Medicine at Goethe University and the University Hospital Frankfurt one of only fiv…
Breakthrough in leukaemia therapy
Movie/image: Influence of the cellular enzyme SAMHD1 on the antitumour effect of cytarabine (Ara-C) in acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) – cell line THP-1. Copyright Cinatl et al.
Until now, it has been impossible to predict which patients suffering from acute myeloid leukaemia (AM…
Press release
Prof. Dr. Jindrich Cinatl
First steps on the way to a new cancer drug
Researchers from Frankfurt and Kent successful in finding ways to overcome resistance
FRANKFURT. Researchers from Goethe University and the University of Kent (UK) have found the first step towards a new gener…
Jan Lütt Sub-foundation
A sub-foundation established in memory of Jan Lütt is intended to continuously and sustainably improve the palliative care of children and adolescents suffering from cancer who are being treated at the Clinic for Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of the Goethe University Hospi…
Children’s cancer research at the highest level
The research groups based in the research house of the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer have been provided with the high content imaging device “ImageXpress Micro XSL” from Molecular Devices GmbH, a research method that is used in the pharmaceutical and biotechnolog…
Klaus Vogel Office Technology
For the second year in a row, Klaus Vogel Bürotechnik GmbH, based in Frankfurt, has dispensed with traditional Christmas presents for its customers and decided to support regional charities instead.
As one of the leading providers in the Rhine-Main region, the document system ho…
