Munich students win Gold Medal in iGEM competition
A Munich student team won a Gold Medal in the world’s largest academic competition for the field of Synthetic Biology with their project aimed at improving cell therapies against cancer. The group from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) was the only German team to finish among the top 10 out of 180 student projects in the undergraduate age category.
Cancer is one of humanity’s most acute health problems. According to the World Health Organization, over 10 million people die of cancer each year. Conventional treatment methods such as chemotherapy also result in grave side-effects. A new treatment strategy uses the body’s own immune cells, T cells. ...
