Helmholtz Munich, one of Ascenion’s long-standing partners, will coordinate the AiChemist project, starting in September 2023. The goal is to develop representation learning approaches that can support drug discovery by predicting the most decisive properties of drug candidates based on their chemical structures, such as toxicity, activity, and…
The innovative CRISPR/Cas-based diagnostic platform LEOPARD was developed in a collaboration between the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research (HIRI), a site of the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Würzburg, and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg (JMU). It enables the detection of multiple RNA and DNA…
In this interactive workshop, we will focus on the essential components of a business plan and on how to assess your company's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats using a SWOT analysis. Additionally, there will be a hands-on exercise using a sample case to help you practice your newly acquired skills and knowledge. The webinar will be…
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TimeTeller from Hamburg is developing a saliva test that can be used to determine the optimal time for chemotherapy, based on the finding that everyone's internal clock has a significant influence on whether and how a treatment works. The startup needs up to 4 million euros for further development and extensive testing. The success at Female…
The biopharma company OMEICOS Therapeutics has discovered a series of metabolically robust synthetic analogues of omega-3 fatty acid-derived epoxyeicosanoids that have the potential to treat mitochondrial dysfunction, inflammatory, cardiovascular, and other diseases. PMD patients suffer from debilitating and life-threatening health consequences,…
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