Living Drugs

Precision therapy cluster for Saxony

About Us

We are an association of leading research institutes and medical facilities from Saxony, including those in Leipzig, Dresden and Chemnitz.

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Our Research

A total of 17 research projects and platforms for the production of allogeneic cell therapeutics from multiple donors in larger batches at a lower price as well as automation play an important role.

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News & Press

All events, news and information about our SaxoCell cluster

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Collaboration & Transfer

Overview of all technology and service offers as well as opportunities for cooperation with SaxoCell

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Development of novel gene and cell therapeutics

SaxoCell has set itself the goal of developing novel gene and cell therapeutics, so-called “living drugs”, which enable this complex form of therapy to be used more widely in various areas of medicine.
The focus is on the efficacy and tolerability of these new cell therapeutics. In addition, allogeneic therapy approaches and automated manufacturing processes should enable socially acceptable costs.
The technologies developed in the cluster are developed together with local company partners and therefore represent an incentive for investors and corresponding industrial partners to get involved in the cluster region.

Latest News

11th – 12th September 2023 | Meeting

Successful SaxoCell Consortium and SAB Meeting

On September 11 and 12, our SaxoCell cluster came together for its second Consortium and Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) Meeting. With about 80 participants on site and more online, we spent two wonderful days full of interesting presentations, discussions and talks.

Apart from delegates of all our projects and platforms, our SAB members as well as representatives of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and Projektträger Jülich (PtJ) were present in Leipzig or online and gave us valuable input!

We would like to thank all participants, in particular our SAB members and the representatives from BMBF and PtJ as well as our keynote speaker from BIH, Christof von Kalle!

6th September 2023 | Award

UNIPRENEURS award to SaxoCell member Frank Buchholz

Frank Buchholz was honoured as one of twenty outstanding professors & founders for his achievement in transferring innovation from university to industry.

The award recognises his enormous research success and outstanding contribution to the development of genome editing technology, especially with regard to possible therapeutic applications.

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UNIPRENEURS website

1st September 2023 | Annual Report 2022/2023

SaxoCell Annual Report 2022/2023 published

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Please find the accessible version of our annual report here (pdf).

28th – 31st August 2023 | Workshop

RNA-seq data analysis workshop

Our first RNA-seq data analysis workshop was held in Dresden under the management of our industry partner ecSeq – providing an insight into Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS).

For 4 days, participants were trained to understand NGS data formats and handling potential problems & errors. They learned how to create diagnostic graphics & statistics and how to compare different approaches for differential expression analysis.

Right from the start, participants and lecturers enjoyed informative lessons followed by fruitful discussions.

We would like to thank ecSeq Bioinformatics GmbH for successfully training our SaxoCell members!

Upcoming Meetings & Events

BIO-Europe 2023

6th – 8th November 2023
Munich

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LION Conference 2023

8th – 9th November 2023
Leipzig

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Tagesspiegel | BIH “Future Medicine Science Match 2023”

9th November 2023
Berlin

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SaxoCell Mini-Symposium on Preclinical Research Models

23rd November 2023 | 1 – 5 PM
Dresden CRTD

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