25. October 2023

Prof. Ulrike Protzer and her project TherVacB was one of the 5 winners of the Bavarian m4 Award from BioM. TherVacB is a project for the development of a therapeutic vaccine against Hepatitis B virus.

September 2023

Prof Baer de Oliveira Mann received an ERC Starting Grant for her NTase Pro project.

Official announcement

On May 1, the Cluster for Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Munich (CNATM) started its work.

CNATM is an innovation network of science and industry, which is funded with five million euros annually by the federal government, the Free State of Bavaria and participating companies. The research network consists of scientists from the leading universities LMU and TUM. The universities of Regensburg and Würzburg, the Helmholtz Center Munich and 17 companies from the region around Munich are also involved. A total of 22 applications were awarded funding, marking the start of the Nucleic Acid Isar Valley.

The multilateral collaborations of CNATM are creating a network from which novel nucleic acid-based drugs and next-generation vaccines will be developed. Recent discoveries give rise to the hope that the ability to design nucleic acids in a highly specific and theoretically predictable way will open up completely new therapeutic approaches in medicine and thus help many people. There is no substance class that is better suited to personalized medicine than nucleic acids. The Future Cluster wants to help nucleic acid therapies achieve a breakthrough and thus make a contribution that makes sense: curing people and creating jobs in and around Munich.

We are very happy, to be one of only 7 clusters4future in Germany and the only one in Bavaria of the second round of the competition.

Our thanks go to all members and partner companies who made this possible.

Link to the Federal Ministry