Fraunhofer ITEM: News

 

Press release / 25.7.2024

First patient dosed

OM Pharma and Fraunhofer ITEM announce initiation of a phase Ia/Ib clinical trial evaluating safety and tolerability of OM-85-Intranasal (IN).

Press Release / Research News / 1.8.2024

Toxicological assessment of e-liquids

Project EVape helps improve consumer safety in the e-cigarette segment.

News / 12.1.2024

Reinforcing core competencies

Succession to Professor Thomas Thum to act as institute director of Fraunhofer ITEM and take up new role as chair of Toxicology at MHH.

Press release / 3.7.2024

DNA, RNA and peptides as storage media

BIOSYNTH – “Modular high-throughput micro-platform for mass data storage of the future from synthetic biology”

Press release / 16.4.2024

Miniature Lab

New opportunity for cancer therapy: Miniature Lab provides insights into metastases development.

News / 26.1.2024

Reliability and relevance of new approach methodologies (NAMs)

Research on alternatives to animal studies on behalf of European Chemicals Agency (ECHA).

 

22.3.2024

EU project REGENERAR

3 million euros allocated for research into the development of innovative technologies for brain regeneration.

Fraunhofer ITEM is one of seven research partners, led by the University of Coimbra, seeking to create better therapies for patients with neurodegenerative diseases or stroke using this technology.

Press release / 1.2.2024

RNAi therapy for viral respiratory diseases

The iGUARD Project have made significant progress in developing a new antiviral therapy. 

Our research and development expertise

For more than four decades, we have been developing solutions for human health

 

Lung research

Research for healthy lungs: Airway research has been a focus at Fraunhofer ITEM ever since the institute was founded. 

Medical and pharmaceutical engineering

Next to innovative inhalation technologies, our focus is on developing novel technologies for administration of therapeutic aerosols by means of smart drug/device combination products.

 

Malignant disease research

The Fraunhofer ITEM Division of Personalized Tumor Therapy in Regensburg is aimed at understanding a patient’s individual condition, establishing appropriate diagnostics and optimizing therapies.

Bioinformatics and AI

Our researchers develop methods for preparation, analysis and visualization of biomedical data, as well as data models and data analysis pipelines. The focus is on the mapping of cellular and regulatory processes and their translation into applications.

 

RNA technologies

RNA-based therapeutics are a drug class with huge potential for medicine. Fraunhofer ITEM researchers develop novel drugs and methods for RNA-based therapeutic concepts.

 

Toxicology

Based on the next generation risk assessment concept, Fraunhofer ITEM develops new assessment strategies to provide predictive models for assessing the safety of compounds, active pharmaceutical ingredients and drugs.

 

Immunology and infection research

The development, formulation and mode of delivery of anti-infective agents, for example for inhaled administration as drug aerosols, are research topics of current interest at the institute.

Our services

 

Chemical Safety and Assessment

 

Translational Biomedical Engineering

 

Personalized Tumor Therapy

From molecular analysis to personalized therapy:

 

Meet Fraunhofer ITEM at fairs and congresses

Events

8.10.2024

Fraunhofer CIMD Winter School 2024

The Winter School will take place again this year. As every year, the 4-day school is all about our 4Ds (Drugs, Diagnostics, Data and Devices). Each day focuses on a different "D".
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30.9.2024

Fraunhofer CIMD Symposium RNA-Based Therapeutics

RNA-research in the focus - at the Fraunhofer CIMD Symposium RNA-Based Therapeutics at Fraunhofer ITEM in Hannover on September 30, 2024. Read more here.
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22.9.2024

EEMGS 2024

This year's European Environmental Mutagenesis & Genomics Society Meeting will be held in Rovinj, Croatia, from September 22 to 27, 2024. Dr. Sylvia Escher from Fraunhofer ITEM will contribute an oral presentation.
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8.9.2024

EUROTOX 2024

The 58th Congress of the European Societies of Toxicology will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from September 8 to 11, 2024.
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About Fraunhofer ITEM

The Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine ITEM is one of 76 institutes and research institutions of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the world’s leading applied research organization. Protecting man from health hazards in our industrialized world and contributing to the development of novel therapeutic approaches are the aims Fraunhofer ITEM is pursuing with its contract research. With a focus on lung research, our R&D portfolio includes three business areas: Drug Development, Chemical Safety and Translational Biomedical Engineering. In addition, our scientists in Regensburg do research in the field of personalized tumor therapy.

With a staff of around 450 at its locations in Hannover, Braunschweig and Regensburg, the institute cooperates with industry, service providers, and public authorities in projects that drive economic development and serve the wider benefit of society.

 

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