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Cooperation Projects

In order to strengthen collaboration within the institute, across working groups and platforms, and to sharpen the institute's scientific profile, HI-TRON Mainz is funding groundbreaking strategic projects by its scientists. 


Already in 2020, three first projects were launched under the umbrella of the Scientific Management Board in the field of tumor microenvironment, tumor biomarkers and identification of neoepitope-specific TCRs.
In 2023, a new round of strategic projects has been selected.…

Strategy projects 2023

Project 1: Bridging the data gap towards deep patient profiling (Alves Duarte/TRON gGmbH)

Prof. Dr. Ugur Sahin (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. Alexandra Alves Duarte (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. Michael Volkmar (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. David Gómez Zepeda (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Tenzer (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. Claire Conche (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. Elham Fakhr (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. David Weber (TRON)
Barbara Schrörs (TRON)
Jonas Ibn-Salem (TRON)
Nabe Al-Hasnawi (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Pritam Kumar Panda (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Prof. Dr. Martin Lablans (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Prof. Dr. Niels Halama (DKFZ/HI-TRON)

Project 2: The role of a fibrotic tumour microenvironment in skin cancer on the susceptibility to immunotherapy (Munir/Grabbe/Kramer)

Dr. Hafsa Munir (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Grabbe (UMC)
Prof. Dr. Daniela Kramer (UMC)
Dr. Alexandra Alves Duarte (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. Claire Conche (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Tenzer (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. David Gomez-Zepeda (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. Elham Fakhr (DKFZ/HI-TRON)

Project 3: GMP-compatible manufacturing of T  cell receptor-engineered T cells  targeting PTPRZ1 in  glioblastoma (Platten)

Prof. Dr. Michael Platten (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick (UKH)
Prof. Dr. Halvard Bönig (DRK)
Miriam Stenzinger (IKTZ)
Dr. Richard Harbottle (DKFZ)
Markus Kratzmann (NCT)
Dr. Lukas Bunse (DKFZ)
Dr. Isabel Poschke (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Stefan Tenzer (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Dr. Michael Volkmar (DKFZ/HI-TRON)

Cooperation projects 2020

Identification and Validation of Vaccine-Induced Neoepitope-Specific TCRs in Gliomas and Pancreatic Carcinomas (Platten/ Jäger/ Offringa/ Halama/ Kolb/ Weber)

Prof. Dr. Michael Platten (DKFZ)
Dirk Jäger (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Rienk Offringa (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Niels Halama (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Laura Kolb (TRON)
David Weber (TRON)

ctDNA Analytic


David Weber (TRON)
Prof. Thomas Kindler (UMC) 
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Gaida, Matthias (UMC)
Dr. Michael Volkmar (DKFZ/HI-TRON)
Prof. Dr. Holger Sültmann (DKFZ)

Effekte biophysikalischer Parameter des Tumormikromikromilieus auf die Funktion von Immunzellen (Schild/Bopp/Platten/Grabbe)

Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Schild (UMC)
Prof. Dr. Tobias Bopp (UMC)
Prof. Dr. Michael Platten (DKFZ)
Prof. Dr. Stephan Grabbe (UMC)