News & Press – Saxocell

News, Press & Media

SaxoCell will establish a lighthouse for cell and gene therapies in Saxony, featuring high international visibility. Here you will find a selection of news and information about our cluster. We are looking forward to press and media inquiries, please contact us.

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.

Read full TUD press release here

UNIPRENEURS website

1st September 2023 | Annual Report 2022/2023

SaxoCell Annual Report 2022/2023 published

Read E-Book here

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!

23rd & 30th June 2023 | Public event

SaxoCell participating at the Science Night

First on 23 June in Leipzig and then a week later on 30 June in Dresden, interested researchers – young and old – had the opportunity to get in touch with us and playfully explore the latest developments in the field of cell and gene therapy.

With the help of a magnetic game, we explained to all visitors how new therapies work, including CAR-T cell therapy. Furthermore, children and adults were able to find out whether their character traits correspond more to a pugnacious natural killer cell, an empathetic T-helper cell or a greedy macrophage with the help of our little immune cell quiz – for which they also received a corresponding button to take home!

29th June 2023 | Competition

Science4Life Venture Cup for our project xMac

Our SaxoCell macrophage project xMac, represented by Anke Fuchs and Ludwig Englmeier, has reached 4th place in the business plan phase of the Science4Life Venture Cup! A great step towards founding a start-up, more will follow.

To Science4Life Venture Cup website

22nd June 2023 | Competition

SaxoCell@TUD Pitch Battle 2023

Participating teams:
Stefanie Hartmann with MicroAcoustiX
Anthony Gavalas with ISLET poiesis
Barbara Ludwig with ISLET poiesis Kalyptos
Markus Badstübner with the university clinic Dresden’s “AI in Cancer” research group
Jiri Eitler with SMART NK Therapeutics

Jury members:
Dorit Teichmann (dresden|exists)
Martin Bornhäuser (Universitätsklinikum Dresden)
Felix Lansing (Seamless Therapeutics GmbH)
Dejan Husman (denovoMATRIX GmbH)

Winner:
Startup Cancilico
(originating in the university clinic Dresden’s “AI in Cancer” research group, developing state of the art AI-driven tools for cancer diagnostics and response prediction)
Congratulations!

11th May 2023 | Spark meeting

“Mouse models for preclinical validation of immune therapies”

Lecturers: Thomas Grunwald & André-René Blaudszun, Fraunhofer IZI

Online

5th May 2023 | Poster presentation

SaxoCell project NK4Therapy poster presentation at the 20th Annual Meeting of the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT)

Poster title: “Development of large-scale expansion protocol for NKG2C-positive NK cells for treatment of glioblastoma”

Link to CIMT website

26th April 2023 | Public event

Reden wir über: Genetik – Open discussion on genetic research

Part of special exhibition “Of genes and human beings” at Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden

With SaxoCell members Prof. Dr. Frank Buchholz and Prof. Dr. Michael Sieweke

DHMD | 6 – 8:30 PM

22nd March 2023 | Press release

Start-up project Makrophagen 2.0 one of the winners of the concept phase of the Science4Life Venture Cup

Award for SaxoCell members Prof. Michael Sieweke, Prof. Martin Bornhäuser, Dr. Anke Fuchs and Dr. Ludwig Englmeier

To CMCB (TU Dresden) press release

16th March 2023 | Press release

The TU Dresden spin-off Seamless Therapeutics launches with $12.5M seed financing to advance transformative gene editing platform based on programmable precision designer recombinases in Dresden

To Seamless Therapeutics press release

10th March 2023 | Workshop

Vom Labor zum Krankenbett: Wie werden Arzneimittel entwickelt?

Workshop for senior pupils
as part of the 2023 UniStem Day at CRTD, TU Dresden

by SaxoCell Hub members Luisa Brückner and Franziska Friebel-Viebach

CRTD | 1:30 – 3 PM

Click here for more information on the 2023 UniStem Day

7th March 2023 | Press Release

Chemnitz Hospital introduces CAR T-cell therapy

Click here for Chemnitz Hospital press release

28th February 2023 | Press Release

35 million EUR from EU and Czech Republic to etablishment of research centre focused on the development of
advanced cell and gene therapies

Click here for CREATIC press release

9th – 11th February 2023 | Conference

EHA – European Hematology Association

5th European CAR T-cell Meeting in Rotterdam & hybrid

Dr. Vladan Vucinic – Talk selected for best application

Prof. Dr. Dr. Ulrike Köhl – Invited talk “Advanced concepts for CAR T cell manufacturing”

Prof. Dr. Michael Hudecek – Head of the Meeting

Click here for more information on the EHA conference in Rotterdam

10th February 2023 | Public lecture

Wie Dresdner Forschende Immunzellen gegen Krebs nutzen

Dr. Anja Feldmann | Radioimmunology | HZDR

CRTD and online | 1 PM

28th January 2023 | Press release

ZEGV takes over evaluation for cancer aftercare project supported by the Innovation Fund (SPIZ)

Click here for ZEGV/SPIZ press release

30th December 2022 | Press release

First in Europe: At Leipzig University Hospital (UKL), all CAR T-cell therapy products available in Germany for cancer patients are available in a timely manner

Click here for UKL press release

23th December 2022 | Press release

Slovenia to host Centre for the Technologies of Gene and Cell Therapy – CTGCT

Click here for CTGCT press release

24th – 26th October 2022 | Conference

SaxoCell at BIO-Europe 2022 in Leipzig

Visit us at our booth (#100), at the symposium on 10/25/2022 | 11 AM or at Partnering

Click here for more information about BIO-Europe 2022

3rd October 2022 | Public event

“Türen auf mit der Maus”: SaxoCell introduces itself

CRTD | 9 AM – 1 PM

Click here for more information about “Türen auf mit der Maus”

12th September 2022 | Public lecture

The potential of Mesenchymal Stem Cells (MSCs) in the treatment of severe diseases.

Prof. Mario Rüdiger | Neonatology and Pediatric Intensive Care Medicine | Dresden University Hospital

CRTD and online | 4 PM

11th July 2022 | Public lecture

“Triff die Koryphäe unter der Konifere”: Natural killer cells as a cell-based therapeutic agent against cancer and autoimmune diseases

Prof. Torsten Tonn | Transfusion Medicine | University Hospital Dresden

Botanical Garden Dresden | 3:30 PM

11th July 2022 | Public lecture

Immunotherapy in blood cancer – status and perspectives

Prof. Uwe Platzbecker | Hematology and Cell Therapy | University Hospital Leipzig

University Hospital Leipzig | House 7 and online | 1 PM

8th July 2022 | Long Night of Science

SaxoCell at the Long Night of Science at the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD)

CRTD | 5 PM

2nd June 2022 | Discussion pannel

Participation of Prof. Ulrike Köhl and Prof. Ezio Bonifacio in the health forum of the Tagesspiegel under the topic: “Gene and cell therapies: Germany on the way to becoming a frontrunner?”

Please find the video recording of the event here

31st May 2022 | Meeting

Kick-off of the first seven future clusters: The innovation networks meet to exchange experiences in Berlin

More information about the Clusters4Future meeting in Berlin can be found here

25th May 2022 | Foundation

Start-up company RecTech GmbH founded

Read the full article (pdf)

17th May 2022 | Annual Report 2021

SaxoCell Annual Report 2021 published

Read E-Book here

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

4th – 7th May 2022 | Conference

SaxoCell at the Annual Meeting of the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy in San Francisco

Meet us in partnering at the ISCT

Click here for more information about ISCT 2022

4th – 5th May 2022 | Conference

SaxoCell at the German Biotechnology Days in Hamburg

Meet us at our SaxoCell booth

Click here for more info about the German Biotechnology Days 2022

28th April 2022 | Public lecture

New perspectives in cell therapy

Prof. Dr. Martin Bornhäuser | Carl Gustav Carus University Hospital Dresden

CRTD and online | 5 PM

27th April 2022 | Public lecture

Lecture on the advancement of women in science as part of DGFI’s Lady Mary Montagu Lecture Series.

Prof. Ulrike Köhl | Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology & the Institute for Clinical Immunology at Leipzig University

Online | 4 PM

20th – 22nd April 2022 | Conference

SaxoCell at ARM-Med: Cell and gene meeting at the Mediterranean in Barcelona

Meet SaxoCell at ARM-Med in Partnering and attend our presentation on 04/21/2022 at 10 AM.

Please find more information about ARM-Med 2022 in Barcelona here

21st January 2022 | Press release

Designer recombinase can precisely correct disease-related gene defect in severe form of hemophilia A

To the press release on the website of the TU Dresden

18th November 2021 | Press release

BMBF cluster of the future SaxoCell explores therapeutic options for previously incurable diseases

To the press release on the website of the TU Dresden

3nd February 2021 | Press release

Living Medicines: The SaxoCell Innovation Network is one of the Winners of the First BMBF Future Cluster Round

To the press release on the TU Dresden website

4th May 2020 | Press release

Go-ahead for the concept phase: From excellent science to application – with the SaxoCell innovation project in the BMBF “Clusters4Future” competition

To the press release on the Fraunhofer IZI website

28th February 2020 | Press release

Innovation project SaxoCell in the final of the “Clusters4Future” competition: With “living medicines” against cancer and other widespread diseases

To the press release on the website of the University of Leipzig

5th February 2020 | Press release

These are the finalists in the competition for the innovation networks of the future: Clusters4Future: Jury recommends 16 applications for funding.

To the press release on the website of the BMBF