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Captain T Cell: Start-up from the MDC wins OneStart competition in London

For the first time, a German team has won the world’s biggest life-science start-up competition. Captain T Cell, founded by Dr Felix Lorenz and several colleagues at the MDC, beat 400 international start-ups to win prize money totalling GBP 100,000. The team will use the funds to further develop their innovative approach to cancer immunotherapy. Their goal is to create a platform for the production of personalized, cancer-specific T cell receptors. With the help of these receptors, the body’s own T cells, so called ‘killer cells’, are able to find and specifically destroy cancer cells in the patient’s body.

Ascenion, the MDC’s technology transfer partner, recognized the potential of the approach at an early stage and developed an appropriate patenting strategy. Together with the project’s scientists and the MDC’s technology transfer department, patents were acquired that now serve as an important foundation for the transfer of this approach into medical application.

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