Great hopes are associated with personalized therapy in medicine. In this edition we present a number of exciting ideas and projects in this field. You can also read our interview with a young Buddhism researcher from Israel, learn about current funding programmes and discover our number of the month: would you ever have imagined that there are around 31,000 collaborations between German universities and international partners alone?
IN FOCUS: Personalized medicine
Tailored drugs
High blood pressure, diabetes and cancer are diseases everyone knows about – yet the precise way the condition actually presents differs from patient to patient. Accordingly, drugs should also differ from one patient to another. Many researchers in Germany are working on improved, tailor-made treatment methods – the buzzword here is “personalized medicine”.
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Fighting cancer with vaccines?
The old maxim about there being strength in numbers also applies to research, as the Ci3 cluster demonstrates. Here, numerous researchers are involved in developing promising therapies that are tailored to individual diseases. One of the projects is exploring vaccines against cancer.
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Tumour detective work
Each year, several million people worldwide contract cancer. An international team in the “German-Australian Network of Personalized Cancer Medicine” is researching new treatment possibilities.
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Yoga and Buddhism – what’s the connection?
Yoga is a blessing for the body, soul and spirit, say its devotees. In his research at Leipzig University, Dr Eran Laish is exploring among other things the interconnections between yoga and the teachings of Buddhism. In our interview the Israeli researcher explains what fascinates him about this subject and why he is currently conducting research in Germany.
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31,000 international collaborations
Internationalization plays an important role in the German research and university world. A 2014 study identified around 31,000 international collaborations agreed by nearly 300 German universities – with around 5,000 university partners in 150 different countries.
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