For the first time, a team from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Heidelberg Stem Cell Institute HI-STEM and the NCT Heidelberg has succeeded in cultivating stable tumor organoids directly from blood samples of breast cancer patients.

Since 2017, the French Embassy in Germany, in partnership with the Franco-German University of Applied Sciences, has been awarding the Forcheurs Prize to honor promising Franco-German scientific collaborations between a tandem of young researchers (under 45 years of age) in the field of chemistry, pharmacology or at the interface between chemistry and health. The prize is under the patronage of Jean-Marie Lehn, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Translational Center for Regenerative Therapies TLZ-RT at Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC in Würzburg recently developed a bioreactor that enables an automated long-term cultivation of human induced pluripotent stem cells.

Together with the Dutch funding body ZonMW, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) published a new bio-national funding guideline on January 6, 2025.  Funding will be provided for the validation of new methods in order to reduce the number of regulatory animal experiments in a medium to long-term perspective.