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Technology Transfer

The Technology Transfer Office works with the research community at the MDC to translate their ideas and discoveries into products and services for public benefit. We support applied research, safeguard IP and connect our researchers with external experts and industry to turn research and ideas into technology opportunities and new businesses.

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Dr. Kyle Ira Harrington

Dr. Kyle Ira Harrington

© Felix Petermann, MDC
Science

The big picture

Kyle Harrington will lead a new MDC technology platform developing new tools to process any type of imaging data. The new unit will support the Helmholtz Imaging Platform (HIP), a joint effort by the MDC and two other centers to advance image data acquisition, preparation and analysis.
Imaging
© David Ausserhofer / MDC
Institute & Campus

All of Helmholtz benefits from HIP

Enabling new applications, learning from one another, linking research fields, harnessing synergies and cumulative experience in imaging processes for all: this is what the new Helmholtz Imaging Platform (HIP), coordinated by the MDC, DKFZ and DESY, promises.
T-cells (highlighted red) attacking a cancer cell

This electron microscope image shows T-cells (highlighted red) attacking a cancer cell.

© Rita Elena Serda, National Institutes of Health
Press Release No. 1

PlasmidFactory partnership to continue

Harnessing jumping genes to advance gene-therapy cancer treatment: In an effort to optimize the Sleeping Beauty system, the MDCell – Helmholtz Innovation Lab is extending its collaboration with PlasmidFactory.
Breast cancer cells of the mouse

Breast cancer cells of the mouse

© Hazel Quinn, W. Birchmeier Lab, MDC Berlin
Science

Funds speed the path from the lab to the clinic

The research results of the MDC should benefit patients as quickly as possible. With the "Pre-GoBio" programme, the MDC is therefore funding three projects which are particularly promising for medical applications, with a total of 825,000 euros..