Eisbach Bio erhält CRPIT Grant zur Förderung neuer Krebsmedikamente

Eisbach Bio GmbH receives CRPIT Grant to promote new cancer drugs

LMU spin-off Eisbach Bio GmbH has received a Texas Therapeutics Company Award from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). This grant will support the clinical development of EIS-12656, which targets challenging cancers with homologous recombination defects (HRD). Eisbach Bio GmbH had previously secured $4.5 million in funding in June 2024. Juni 2024 4,5 Mio $ Fördermittel gesichert.

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2024 Nobel Prize for microRNA

2024 Nobel Prize awarded to the discovery of microRNA


Victor Ambros and Gary Ruvkun have been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize for their discovery of the first microRNA, lin-4, in C. elegans.
This is the second consecutive Nobel Prize for nucleic acids, following the 2023 Nobel Prize for Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissmann for their work on mRNA technology. The development of nucleic acid-based therapeutics is the goal of the Cluster for Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Munich (CNATM).
In CNATM leading academic groups and 14 biotech companies are working together to achieve this goal. Several CNATM partners are focusing on microRNA-based therapeutics (rnatics GmbH, Secarna Pharmaceuticals GmbH, Engelhardt Group at the Institut for Pharmacology and Toxikology at TUM, Yildirim Group at the Helmholtz München).

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Reinhart-Koselleck-Grant for Prof. Irmela Jeremias

Reinhart-Koselleck-Grant for Prof. Irmela Jeremias​

Prof. Irmela Jeremias is a pediatrician at the Hauner Children’s Hospital of LMU and a scientist at Helmholtz München. For her research on new targets to fight leukemia, she received a Reinhart Koselleck grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). This grant supports highly innovative and promising projects. Her project aims to “Identify new targeted cancer therapies using in vivo CRISPR/Cas9 dropout screens in PDX models”.

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