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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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STEM Excellence Workshop

young researchers master STEM Excellence Workshop

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Benjamin Ruf receives award!

Benjamin Ruf receives Adolf-Kußmaul-Prize 2024

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iFIT Big in Japan

Annual Conference of the Metabolomics Society in Osaka

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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

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Sep, 24

09:00 Uhr - 17:00 Uhr

iFIT Rhetoric Skills Workshop in English

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Oct, 24

12:00 Uhr - 13:00 Uhr

iFIT Seminar Series with Francisco Barriga, PhD

Dissecting the function of copy number alterations in cancer

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Oct, 24

12:55 Uhr - 17:00 Uhr

iFIT Symposium: Diversity, Inclusion & Family in Science

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Nov, 24

12:30 Uhr - 13:30 Uhr

iFIT Seminar Series with Franz Schilling, PhD

Imaging life and death - using MRI to detect cellular function and metabolism

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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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🥳👏🏆Congrats Josef and the whole @TeamJJTueb! Today he received the Wuerttemberg #Cancer #Award 2024 from the Dres. Carl Maximilian und Carl Manfred Bayer Foundation for his project Tailoring cellular therapies to molecular subtype specific secretory programs in #gastric cancer https://t.co/EVSOv7MRt2

Jul 25th at 5:38pm

You got plans for your #summer #vacation? What about visiting the @uni_tue summer #university? Join @BettinaWeigelin on a great #lecture with the title "Invisible heroes: #Microscopic insights into #cancer #immunotherapies" 🗓️August 5 🕐10:15am 🏢Liebermeisterstraße 16 https://t.co/xMOT5uE8V6

Jul 23rd at 10:23am

👏#Congrats to our iFIT 2024 class who succesfully mastered the "Excellence in International #STEM #Communication, Productivity and #Career Skills" program by coach Dr. Paul Charlton! Equipped with the skillset to face the challenges of their future scientific careers! https://t.co/TBqjlmzgUA

Jul 15th at 3:28pm

RT @TheMartinsLab: Can we detect compartmentalized metabolism non-invasively with high resolution? YES and with multiplex detection of ext…

Jul 15th at 3:02pm

Great work receives its deserved recognition! Congratulations to our member Benjamin on this award 🎉 https://t.co/vl9HqIcayl

Jul 2nd at 10:00am

Next up within our #Seminar Series is Dr. Stefan Glöggler from @mpi_nat with a great talk on "Stable isotope magnetic resonance contrast agents - A tale of three #nuclei" 🗓️June 24, 2024 🕐12:00pm CEST ℹ️https://t.co/FYsAxos1mK Looking forward to next generation contrast agents! https://t.co/dJoFobUh7a

Jun 19th at 12:04pm

@TheMartinsLab @CNRS @CBM_UPR4301 Wishing all of you a great time in 🇫🇷!

Jun 19th at 11:53am

🇳🇱🌷🔬Greetings from our spokesperson Lars Zender from #Rotterdam! As invited speaker, he gave a great talk at the Annual Meeting of @EACRnews on "A new role of senescent cells in driving #metastasis of therapy naive #tumors" #cancerresearch #cancer #senescence https://t.co/thcVJPctmb

Jun 12th at 8:46am

🤗We had a great episode of our Seminar Series yesterday! 🙏 Thank you Tobias Ross from @MHH_life on a great talk on "#Radiofolates for #imaging and therapy – will we reach bedside sometime?". Also thanks to Gerald Reischl from @WSIC_Tuebingen who was yesterday's host! https://t.co/VMb31ZxJLh

Jun 4th at 1:33pm

RT @WSIC_Tuebingen: Check out our recent study on a new #CD19 immunoPET technique: https://t.co/dzmfXpoa2P. We present a way to non-invasi…

May 21st at 9:32am

🥳#Congrats to our member Matthias Gehringer on being appointed as W3 #Professor for Medicinal #Chemistry with a Focus on Protein #Kinase Inhibitors at the @MedTuebingen of @uni_tue! Great accomplishment and well-deserved! ➡️Learn more about his research: https://t.co/8BQ4PNmhZK https://t.co/R0gJz7KT4a

May 15th at 8:30am

📝🔬The last two days several of our #PhD #students participated in the #workshop "Fundamentals of #Scientific #Writing" with coach Dr. Birgit Hollenbach in order to improve their #writing skills. @jns_schd & Jacqueline Berner give you a brief insight into why they participated. https://t.co/g6JFBxPnEn

May 8th at 9:53am

🤗What a great @Der_GirlsDay it was! We hosted 3 female student groups giving them exciting insights into the world of #cancerresearch!👩‍🔬Whether it was #immunotherapy, drug development or #cancer peptide vaccines, the girls were enthusiastic! #girlsday #womeninscience #girlsday24 https://t.co/qAvxWuDhZq

Apr 29th at 9:50am

🙏Our host @TheMartinsLab and especially the audience immensly enjoyed the talk of Benjamin Bender from @uktuebingen ! He gave insights into new MR contrasts and possibilities of #AI in #Neurooncology during today's Lunch & Learn Session! #mri #ArtificialInteligence #imaging https://t.co/APgbtN5eLV

Apr 24th at 4:06pm

RT @ml4science: Scientists have created a map of the entire landscape of biomedical research using machine learning tools, along with an in…

Apr 24th at 8:13am

Join Benjamin Bender from @uktuebingen in our next Lunch & Learn Session tomorrow! 📃New MR contrasts and possibilities of #AI in #Neurooncology 🗓️24 April 🕐12:30pm (CEST) ℹ️https://t.co/lMdOPphsOR #lecture #cancerresearch #mri #imaging https://t.co/KoAzaKR46G

Apr 23rd at 4:24pm

🏃‍♀️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

Cancer research made in Tuebingen iFIT Cluster of Excellence

About the Cluster

News

STEM Excellence Workshop

Benjamin Ruf receives award!

iFIT Big in Japan

Cancer research at the highest level

Three excellent research areas

iFIT in figures

Events

iFIT Rhetoric Skills Workshop in English

iFIT Seminar Series with Francisco Barriga, PhD

iFIT Symposium: Diversity, Inclusion & Family in Science

iFIT Seminar Series with Franz Schilling, PhD

iFIT on Social Media

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