Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine

Institute management in tandem

Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Thum has joined Fraunhofer ITEM as institute director. He will henceforth manage the institute together with Prof. Dr. Norbert Krug.

Models of Lung Disease 2021: registration open!

The next Fraunhofer Seminar “Models of Lung Disease” will be held on January 21 and 22, 2021. The focus of this virtual conference will be on different aspects of SARS-CoV-2.

What turns cells into killer cells?

Our Regensburg-based Division of Personalized Tumor Therapy is searching for approaches for novel diagnostics and personalized treatments in the fight against cancer.

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Accelerated production of a passive vaccine against COVID-19

Fraunhofer ITEM and Corat Therapeutics GmbH are beginning production of a specific SARS-CoV-2 antibody.

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Medical research on SARS-CoV-2

With our decades of experience in infection and airway research, drug development, biomedical engineering, and in the field of chemical risk assessment, we are meanwhile involved in numerous projects to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.

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EU project MDOT

Development of an open-innovation test bed to support small and medium-sized manufacturers of medical devices in the conformity assessment of their products.

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Bioinformatics and Digital Health

Processing large quantities of data is a major challenge of our era, in the life sciences in particular. The Project Group for Bioinformatics has been set up as an “Attract Group” at Fraunhofer ITEM.

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Fighting bacteria with viruses

Fraunhofer scientists have joined forces with partners in the Phage4Cure project to explore alternatives to antibiotics.

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Replacing animal testing

Fraunhofer ITEM advances the development of new-approach methodologies. Our scientists Dr. Sylvia Escher and Dr. Tanja Hansen discussed the paradigm shift in chemical risk assessment.

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