Press Release No. 16
Berlin
Immunological Approaches to Cancer Treatment – New Transregional Collaborative Research Center in Berlin and Munich
A new transregional research collaboration to explore new approaches to cancer treatment with the aid of the immune system was now established in Berlin and Munich. The project “Principles and Applications of Adoptive T Cell Therapy” is a long-term multicenter research undertaking involving the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Free University Berlin und Humboldt University), the MDC Berlin-Buch, the GSF – National Research Center for Environment and Health in Munich as well as the Technical University and the Ludwig Maximilian University (both Munich) and the German Rheuma Research Center, Berlin. The German Research Foundation (DFG) is allocating six million euros to this Transregional Collaborative Research Center project (Transregio or SFB/TR for short), initially for the next four years.