3.8 million euros for endowed professorship and laboratory

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Heinz Nixdorf Foundation supports organoid research at TUM

Partnership for medical progress - from left: TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofm
Partnership for medical progress - from left: TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann, Dr. Horst Nasko, Deputy Chairman of the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation, Prof. Matthias Hebrok, Sandra Bogdanovic, TUM Fundraising, Prof. Andreas Bausch
The Heinz Nixdorf Foundation is presenting over 3.8 million euros to the Technical University of Munich (TUM) for research on organoid model systems. Organoids can help in understanding the molecular fundamentals of illness and health and bringing these findings to clinical application, in particular for individualized cancer therapies. The funding will be used for an endowed TUM professorship for AI-supported organoid development and the highly specialized Heinz Nixdorf Laboratory for Organoid System Analytics.

Organoids are mini-organs generated in the laboratory which can grow outside the body under cell culture conditions. ...
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