Cancer research made in Tuebingen
iFIT Cluster of Excellence

The Cluster of Excellence "Image-guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies (iFIT)" aims to achieve a comprehensive understanding of biological processes in tumors in order to develop innovative and sustainable cancer therapies. Cancer therapies available to date have often proven to be ineffective in the long term. Although it is now possible to contain the disease in patients with advanced tumors using modern cancer therapies, resistance almost always develops. The tumors begin to grow again despite therapy. The researchers therefore want to comprehensively analyze the biological processes in tumors through functional genetic studies and identify possible weak points that could represent targets for new drugs. The cluster has identified three key research areas for this:

• Functional target identification and molecular tumor therapies 
• Immunotherapies
• Molecular and functional multiparametric imaging 

Our junior research groups form the backbone of our future research and are staffed by excellent research group leaders. Equipped with top-class technology, our junior research groups work at full speed in our laboratories towards our common goal of creating the basis for the development of innovative and sustainable cancer therapies.

The Faculty of Medicine at the University of Tübingen has established a total of four professorships, which have been filled by excellent researchers from the iFIT cluster. These include the professorships "Experimental Neuroonco-Immunology", "Radiochemistry and Imaging Probe Development", "Functional Immunogenomics" and "Cellular Immunotherapies in Cancer". There are also other excellent iFIT professorships.