The Zentrum für Digitale Medizin und Gesundheit (ZDMG) will bring together researchers in medicine, informatics and mathematics. They will collaborate on new healthcare developments based on data science and artificial intelligence and pursue clinical applications. The Technical University of Munich… [weiterlesen]

With grants of as much as five million euros, Humboldt Professorships are the best-endowed research prize in Germany. Prof. Angela Schoellig and Prof. Daniel Rückert will officially receive this honor on May 12, 2022. Both conduct research at TUM in the field of Artificial Intelligence. We speak… [weiterlesen]

Mit der Eröffnung des neuen Patientenhauses des Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) München am 26. April gibt es für Krebspatient:innen sowie deren Angehörige ab sofort eine zentrale Anlaufstelle mitten in der Stadt: In der Pettenkoferstraße 8a, nahe des Sendlinger Tors, finden Betroffene die… [weiterlesen]

A method to shed unprecedented views into skin diseases: that was the goal when the INNODERM project was launched in 2016 under the leadership of the Technical University of Munich (TUM). It has yielded a novel imaging modality that can see deeper and with higher discrimination beneath the skin… [weiterlesen]

Why do alterations of certain genes cause cancer only in specific organs of the human body? Scientists have now demonstrated that cells originating from different organs are differentially susceptible to activating mutations in cancer drivers: The same mutation in precursor cells of the pancreas or… [weiterlesen]

AI algorithms can support medical personnel in diagnosing illnesses. However, to train these algorithms, a precious good warranting careful protection must be accessed: medical data. A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a technology that ensures that… [weiterlesen]

Immunomodulatory drugs, including the Contergan derivatives lenalidomide and pomalidomide, have significantly improved the therapy of hematologic malignancies such as multiple myeloma. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have now further decoded the mode of action in this class… [weiterlesen]

Autoimmune diseases, in which the body's own immune system attacks healthy tissue, can be life-threatening and can impact all organs. A research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now found a possible cause for these self-destructive immune system attacks: a hyperactive RANK… [weiterlesen]

Prof. Jürgen Ruland, from TUM’s Rechts der Isar Hospital, will receive the 2021 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. The Professor of Clinical Chemistry is being honored for his outstanding scientific work in the field of immunology, which has led to a fundamentally new understanding of the signal… [weiterlesen]

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. But individual tumors can vary significantly, presenting different spatial patterns within their mass. Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Helmholtz Zentrum München have now succeeded in visualizing spatial changes within… [weiterlesen]