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Donate your deposit – A campaign by Faruk Ünal and the mail centre in Gutleutstraße
Mr Ünal has been supporting the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer for many years. At his employer – the Deutsche Post AG postal logistics centre in Frankfurt’s Gutleutstrasse – he noticed that employees often disposed of their returnable bottles on site without colle…

FUCHS LUBRICANTS GERMANY supports the foundation with € 10,000
Last week we had a visit from the Palatinate. The Managing Director of LUCHS LUBRICANT GERMANY, Susanne Heirich, presented the foundation with a cheque for € 10,000. The contact came about at a recent award ceremony for the foundation, after which employees of the foundation and…

Award of the Dr Maresch-Klingelhöffer Prize 2024 to PD Dr Dominik Sturm
The Board of Trustees is delighted to award the Dr Maresch-Klingelhöffer Prize 2024, endowed with € 10,000, to PD Dr Dominik Sturm. He is being honoured by the jury for the widespread use of a test procedure developed in Heidelberg that enables the precise diagnosis of brain tum…

The EPHO has been awarded funding from the José Carreras leukemia foundation totaling € 616.000
The team of the Institute of Experimental Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (EPHO) is delighted and proud to have received substantial funding from the José Carreras Leukemia Foundation for two projects led respectively by PD Dr. Meike Vogler and Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckl which will…

The foundation receives the Freemasons’ Lodge Award for Humanity
It was with great pleasure and extreme gratitude that we recently received the “Förderpreis für Menschlichkeit” (Advancement Award for Humanity), which the Masonic Lodge “Zur Einigkeit” awards every year to charitable organisations for their special social commitment, in a festi…

Political visit to the Dr Petra Joh Research Centre
We are very pleased to have welcomed Mr Omid Nouripour to our event this week! As the Federal Chairman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and a member of the German Bundestag, he is not only politically engaged, but also a supporter of our existentially important research work.
We spent a…

Chat time at Radio Frankfurt
Above the rooftops of Frankfurt, on the 27th floor of Radio Frankfurt, our Board Member Heike Dommsch and our Managing Director Marcus Klüssendorf were able to talk about the successes of paediatric cancer research in Germany, but also the conditions that need to be improved, an…

Doing good through art
This is what Darmstadt-based artist and author Eberhard Malwitz has decided to do with his intention to sell a large part of his artwork in favour of our foundation.
To kick off this great project, he will give a lecture on Thursday, 16 May 2024 at 19:00 entitled “Über Krieg und…