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iFIT Cluster of Excellence

About the Cluster

The Cluster of Excellence 2180 "Image-guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies" (iFIT) is the only oncology cluster of excellence in Germany. Since January 1, 2019, internationally renowned scientists and talented young researchers have been working together in this consortium in a globally unique collaboration of three different research areas here in Tuebingen to shape the future of cancer research.

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International Women’s Day

Five questions to three inspiring women of our cluster

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Welcome back Ines!

Ines Paixao returns from maternity leave

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New spokesperson Prof. Juliane Walz

Prof. Juliane Walz was elected as newest iFIT spokesperson

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Cancer research at the highest level

Three excellent research areas

Functional target identification and molecular tumor therapies

Immunotherapies

Molecular and functional multiparametric imaging

iFIT in figures

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17:00 Uhr - 18:00 Uhr

M3 Lecture Series

Prof. Burkhard Ludewig, St. Gallen, Microbiome and Myocarditis

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Apr, 24

17:00 Uhr - 19:00 Uhr

Symposium - Gefäßzentrum

Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Gefäßerkrankungen

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Apr, 24

12:30 Uhr - 13:30 Uhr

iFIT Lunch & Learn Session with Dr. Benjamin Bender

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Apr, 24

09:30 Uhr - 13:30 Uhr

Die Haut als Kinoleinwand des Immunsystems

Girls Day - Angebot

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We want to inform everyone who is involved with or interested in the Cluster of Excellence "Image-Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies" (iFIT) about recent developments, upcoming activities, and other general iFIT-related topics surrounding the future of cancer research made in Tuebingen.

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🏃‍♀️Only a couple days left until @Der_GirlsDay will take place on April 25! So hurry up and register for the last remaining spots: 💊#Cancer #Drug development: https://t.co/BCL3Uq2NAG 🔬Skin & #Immunesystem: https://t.co/LXxiv338Ex #womeninscience #girlsday #cancerresearch https://t.co/65mG5xsFiz

Apr 19th at 10:55am

We had the honor to host a talk from Robert F. Schwabe (@ColumbiaUniver) within our iFIT Seminar #Series with a great #talk on “Understanding and targeting chronic #liver disease and liver #cancer”. Lars Zender and @CancerInflam welcomed Robert who enjoyed his stay in Tuebingen. https://t.co/GPswMeumYr

Apr 16th at 10:41am

🔬➕☀️Ever wondered how it looks like when state-of-the-art #cancerresearch meets the #goldencoast of #California? 👩‍🔬Check out the slideshow and get to know how PhD student @anaischoffart (@WSIC_Tuebingen) experienced the @AACR Annual Meeting in the beautiful city of #SanDiego! https://t.co/rHvBpkdT9U

Apr 13th at 9:00am

Yesterday the @AACR Annual Meeting ended! Almost one week full of innovative #CancerResearch are in the books. Our spokesperson Lars Zender was part of the meeting presenting interesting research on Aurora kinase which could be used as an powerful anti-#cancer #drug. #AACR24 https://t.co/uYkuFYpGZS

Apr 11th at 8:12am

Greetings from "America's Finest City" 🌅 Our member @anaischoffart (@WSIC_Tuebingen) presented her poster at @AACR Annual Meeting in San Diego dealing with tracking and profiling #metastatic/non-metastastatic breast #cancer in vivo via #metabolic #imaging. #AACR24 #SanDiego https://t.co/agwdNHQ0EA

Apr 10th at 10:37am

Looking forward to the next episode of our iFIT #Seminar Series with special guest Prof. Robert F. Schwabe from @Columbia in New York. 📅April 15, 2024 🕐12:00pm 🏥ENT Clinic, big lecture hall ℹ️ https://t.co/a9tYF1foMM #cancer #cancerresearch #liver #disease https://t.co/5vwTxb75OP

Apr 9th at 3:40pm

RT @ScienceTM: Combining a mutant #IL15 moiety with anti-CD19/CD20 antibodies, researchers engineer antibody constructs that empower natura…

Apr 2nd at 2:48pm

@CellCellPress What a beautiful cover and an even more interesting study. Check it out: https://t.co/eoahCg5E23

Mar 28th at 5:29pm

👏Congrats Lars Zender and his group (@uktuebingen @uni_tue) as well as Scott Nyberg from @MayoClinic on their study on MKK4 inhibitor HRX-215 for the treatment of acute and chronic #liver diseases making it on the Cell cover! Great example of #artmeetsscience #CancerResearch https://t.co/1mSFXk4Uwy

Mar 28th at 5:27pm

👩‍🔬We are part of @Der_GirlsDay on April 25, 2024! You want to learn more about the exciting world of #CancerResearch? Then register for one of our four #workshops! 🥼🔬Put on your lab coat and head for the microscopes! #womeninscience #girlsday ➡️https://t.co/E8Z7vVFuGu https://t.co/nSrMom0W61

Mar 26th at 2:37pm

Had a great time hosting a short visit of a 🇧🇷 delegation within the 11th German & Brazilian Symposium of @uni_tue! Thanks to @TheMartinsLab, @BettinaWeigelin, @WSIC_Tuebingen & @TeamJJTueb for showing our guests what iFIT is all about! https://t.co/KLw1W7Qnuu

Mar 20th at 5:52pm

🔬 It was great having Saskia Biskup, Managing Director of @CeGaT_GmbH at our iFIT Lunch and Learn #Session today! The audience enjoyed your #talk with the question "#Diagnostics in #cancer patient care 2040 – are there still cancer #patients?” immensely! Thank you 🙏 #Research https://t.co/kAYCoZupPh

Mar 20th at 3:48pm

Join us at our next Lunch & Learn #session with speaker Saskia Biskup from @CeGaT_GmbH with an interesting title "Diagnostics in #cancer patient care 2040 – are there still cancer patients?" 🗓️March 20, 2024 🕐12:30pm (CET) ℹ️https://t.co/JUd7Ghn0vS https://t.co/GVthDYyOzS

Mar 16th at 9:00am

RT @Gh_Tabatabai: Finally out. Congratulations to my lab and to all our collaborators, a true team work. I would like to particularly highl…

Mar 16th at 7:57am

Proud of our juniors! What a way to go 💪 https://t.co/DxcBVHEdUf

Mar 16th at 7:55am

Promising study findings show a new potential treatment for #liver failure! The new #drug candidate “HRX-215” has been shown to increase healing and regeneration of the liver after major #surgery. @CellCellPress ➡️https://t.co/RqpCzsA2wy

Mar 14th at 4:38pm

🙏On behalf of our Speaker and host of today's #Seminar Series Lars Zender, thank you @ProfJohnsen for visiting and providing us with great insights into your #research! https://t.co/YPoq2iEL3W

Mar 11th at 5:24pm

👩‍🔬👩‍⚕️On International @womensday we interviewed our members @Gh_Tabatabai, Judith Feucht (@TeamJJTueb) and Lisa Sevenich (@LabSevenich) on #gender #equality and what advice they can give young #women aiming at a #career in #science: https://t.co/WBx7ev3TuV https://t.co/r7BPQaTQ0B

Mar 8th at 8:46am

Looking forward to the next episode of our iFIT #Seminar Series with special guest @ProfJohnsen from @RBCTStuttgart! 📅March 11, 2024 🕐12:15pm 🏥CRONA Clinic, big lecture hall ℹ️https://t.co/vsY1FJE0LB #cancer #cancerresearch #bioinformatic https://t.co/qog89aRl9t

Mar 7th at 3:14pm

RT @WSIC_Tuebingen: We are #hiring! The lab of @junker_anna is offering a #PhDposition to investigate "synthesis of ligands for targetin…

Mar 7th at 2:43pm

🤔Can #Immunotherapy be a game changer in the fight against #cancer? If you missed the recent 🎥show of @ctvtue of @uni_tue with our experts 👩‍🔬 @LabWalz & 👨‍🔬 @Salihlab as guests, check out the #video on YouTube: https://t.co/ePv33gaGrX 🎼: AlexiAction / pixabay https://t.co/nRDL0239ve

Mar 6th at 12:07pm

🔬 It was great having @Mldubbelaar at our second iFIT Lunch and Learn #Session 2024! The audience enjoyed your #talk on "Navigating the #immunopeptidomics landscape: Unraveling the #bioinformatic pipelines of cutting-edge #research" immensely! Thank you 🙏 #CancerResearch https://t.co/yPYtABvmAW

Feb 28th at 3:38pm

Personalized #Immunotherapies have revolutionized the way we treat #cancer. But there is still a long way to go! Our #immunology experts @LabWalz & @Salihlab are tomorrows guest at Campus TV of @uni_tue. 📺Tune in! 🕤9:30am 🗓️Feb 29 https://t.co/ePv33gaGrX

Feb 28th at 11:12am

🤔Ever wondered how it looks like when T-cells go to work? 🔬👩‍🔬Our member @Bettina is an expert in #preclinical #imaging of the #immunesystem! She gave the @uni_tue #science magazine Attempto! great insights into her #research. ➡️Check out the 🇺🇸 article: https://t.co/erudtIYFs3 https://t.co/Hh56bW2tJU

Feb 15th at 1:09pm

RT @TheMartinsLab: Today was presentation day for biochemistry students who joined our module on metabolic imaging. Very impressed with how…

Feb 14th at 1:36pm

📣We have exciting news to share! @JulianeWalz has been elected as our new Cluster of Excellence spokesperson. She succeeds Prof. Rammensee and will join forces with Lars Zender & @BerndJPichler in a decisive year since we are working on our prolongation proposal! #cancerresearch https://t.co/MlNs8mjmwx

Feb 12th at 11:19am

👩‍🔬 Today is International Day of #Women & #Girls in #Science! We asked our #female #PhDs what they would like to see for women in science in the future! Check out the video on YouTube ⬇️ https://t.co/qRiz7G5Nbv #WomenInSTEM #womeninscience https://t.co/JIvoujKmUs

Feb 11th at 12:08pm

RT @maur3ra: New manuscript published in @BioconjChem ! @gregdbowden and @StotzSophie came up with an efficient synthesis of our radiolabel…

Feb 7th at 7:47am

🎗️Yesterday was #WorldCancerDay2024! Our members @JosefLeibold, Judith Feucht (@TeamJJTueb) & @BenniRuf dispelled #myths and legends about #cancer and shed light on the subject! 📽️Check out the #video! (🇺🇸 subtitles) https://t.co/1z8jcqYQpJ #WorldCancerDay

Feb 5th at 2:27pm

Kicking off our #Lunch and #Learn Sessions 2024 with Dr. Nicole Schneiderhan-Marra from @NMI_DE with a great talk on "Building better #antibody assays for rapidly evolving diseases" 📅January 31, 2024 🕐12:00pm 🏥Medical Clinic, Lecture Hall ➡️ https://t.co/MDHRBIMcMG #cancer https://t.co/aVyO2nkNCe

Jan 29th at 2:24pm

RT @WSIC_Tuebingen: Some exciting news!🎉 Our latest article, co-authored by Jonathan Cotton and Andreas Maurer; explores cutting-edge strat…

Jan 24th at 3:32pm

RT @WSIC_Tuebingen: New publication from the #microscopy team by @MartiGiamp & @BettinaWeigelin! With Dept. of Dermatology @UKT, they chara…

Jan 24th at 3:32pm

RT @TeamJJTueb: We congratulate Hannah and Meshkat, who were awarded the Athene Grant for their individual research projects. We would like…

Jan 16th at 10:25pm

When it comes to #mRNA #vaccination, there is no way around Dr. @StevePascolo from @UZH_ch! It was all the more pleasing to have him as a speaker for our first iFIT #Seminar Series 2024 with a talk on “#Vaccines and therapies based on synthetic mRNA” #CancerResearch https://t.co/dXZ7sFkQMY

Jan 15th at 4:59pm

RT @TeamJJTueb: We have received approval for funding of the grant "Identification of novel therapeutic strategies for molecular subtypes o…

Jan 13th at 5:11pm

@StotzSophie @maur3ra @DunkelGina @WSIC_Tuebingen De bedste ønsker til København! 🇩🇰 Wishing you a great start and good to see that iFIT is accompanying you in the far north 😁

Jan 11th at 4:21pm

Big thank you to @BettinaWeigelin, @nnludwig & Dirk Kraus 🙌

Jan 11th at 10:58am

😃#ThrowbackThursday Looking back on two days full of exciting hands-on #science at the Science Fair 2023. Within the #SIDays23 of the @uni_tue together with @CoE_CMFI & @ml4science we offered insights into #CancerResearch, #microbiome & #MachineLearning https://t.co/Wea5viVgn3

Jan 11th at 9:35am

Kicking off our #Seminar Series 2024 is @StevePascolo with a great talk on "Vaccines and therapies based on synthetic mRNA" from @UZH_ch! 📅January 15, 2024 🕐12:00pm 🏥Medical Clinic, Lecture Hall ➡️https://t.co/mugyX2MTqP #vaccines #mrna #CancerResearch https://t.co/ZRMU8QfAaN

Jan 10th at 8:52am

👋Happy to have you on board @junker_anna! Looking forward to your great contributions regarding our molecular and functional multiparametric imaging research area! https://t.co/cX8nEC2BMg

Jan 9th at 9:43am

😊Glad to have contributed to this piece of beauty! Great team effort & really happy for our members @JosefLeibold & Judith Feucht from @TeamJJTueb joining forces with our friends from @LoweLabMSKCC! 🇩🇪🤝🇺🇸 especially @KTsanov & @Corina_Amor_MD #cancerresearch #GastricCancer https://t.co/M69fQ5ZxGi

Jan 5th at 11:00am

RT @TheMartinsLab: Can we use acidity to predict checkpoint PD-L1 blocade witjin the TME? Check this collaborative publication where we sh…

Dec 19th at 9:57am

@maur3ra @theRealImmunCel Our 2023 Merry #Science #Cookie #Contest Winners! 🏆🍪🎅 🥇Martina Rausch with "Team JJ Christmas Cookies" 🥈Yuliia Skliarenko with "Wanderers: Christmas edition" 🥉Sina Angenendt with "ImmunoBites" It's safe to say that all the cookies were finger-licking good! 😋 https://t.co/YMX0vO0eth

Dec 18th at 4:23pm

@MedTuebingen @LisaSevenich We are blessed to have such great scientists in our Cluster 🙏

Dec 18th at 11:17am

🕯️🕯️🕯️"Advent, Advent, ein Lichtlein brennt. Erst eins, dann zwei, dann drei..." time to light the 3rd candle on our #advent wreath! Speaking of 3: We combine 3 #cancerresearch areas in a unique way! Check out the video to learn what iFIT is all about: https://t.co/S6SVGB8Jjp https://t.co/BWn7CDHMOg

Dec 17th at 9:00am

It was awesome participating in the #SIDays23 and being part of such a great scientific festival! Especially together with our colleagues from @CoE_CMFI & @ml4science! https://t.co/Z8LHJashFq

Dec 15th at 2:37pm

Our iFIT Merry #Science #Poster #Award Winners 2023! 🏆 🥇Svenja Schütte 🥈Joshua Müller/Simon Krost 🥉Desiree I. Frecot A big thank you to all 31 participants! You did an outstanding job! And thank you to our judges @maur3ra, @theRealImmunCel and Daniel Dauch! #CancerResearch https://t.co/cvnZSWIqqo

Dec 13th at 10:34pm

Well that is what you can call „embracing the Christmas spirit“! @mr_kuchen not only with a great poster but an awesome #Christmas beard decoration! 🎄🎅 https://t.co/gV4PciLxyk

Dec 13th at 6:36pm

Another Highlight is our Merry Science Cookie Contest! A public vote will decide which three cookies are the tastiest! 🍪🎅 https://t.co/98hk57Mzhh

Dec 13th at 6:16pm

🎅Kicking off our Merry Science Event is our poster session! 🎉 A big thank you to our junior researchers providing 31 Posters from all our 3 #research areas! 🙏Stay tuned and find out who will win the Poster Award 🥇 🥈🥉#merryscience #christmas #xmas #science https://t.co/pp2X0tuNp7

Dec 13th at 5:34pm

Cancer research made in Tuebingen iFIT Cluster of Excellence

About the Cluster

News

International Women’s Day

Welcome back Ines!

New spokesperson Prof. Juliane Walz

Cancer research at the highest level

Three excellent research areas

iFIT in figures

Events

M3 Lecture Series

Symposium - Gefäßzentrum

iFIT Lunch & Learn Session with Dr. Benjamin Bender

Die Haut als Kinoleinwand des Immunsystems

iFIT on Social Media

iFIT on LinkedIn

iFIT on X

iFIT on YouTube

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Cancer research made in Tuebingen
iFIT Cluster of Excellence