2 new DFG research units at the University of Freiburg

The research unit “UcarE – Urothelial Carcinoma Epigenetics” aims to investigate the biological mechanisms that underlie bladder cancer. The unit’s spokesman is Prof Dr Ian Frew of the Faculty of Medicine and the BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies of the University of Freiburg. Seven groups in all are taking part in this project. They are researching at the University of Freiburg, RWTH Aachen University and the University of Tübingen. Among other things, the unit’s members would like to set up a biobank that gathers and holds three-dimensional cell cultures of tumours and data from molecular and genetic analyses of them. Using these as a foundation, therapies will be developed that are personally tailored to individual bladder cancer patients.