Monthly Archives: November 2015

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Cluster Science Days 2015: A meeting to remember

Fascinating talks and poster presentations, networking with spirited fellow students and broadening our horizons were the main attributes of this year’s perfectly organized Cluster Science Days. For two days the ImmunoSensation members, including many doctoral candidates and postdocs, group leaders of the University Hospital Bonn, the LIMES and caesar institutes and the DZNE, as well as invited guests, gathered in a welcoming and friendly atmosphere. … Continue reading Cluster Science Days 2015: A meeting to remember »

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How to bring innovative ideas to real world applications – Merck Serono Innovation Cup 2015

The pharmaceutical industry is known as a tough business. Pharmaceutical companies have to bring new candidate drugs through the long preclinical and clinical development phases – a process, which is both expensive and prone to failure at any of the different steps of testing or even after its final registration and clinical application. Altogether, the whole development phase takes about twelve years. In order to … Continue reading How to bring innovative ideas to real world applications – Merck Serono Innovation Cup 2015 »

Editorial

The Cluster goes Christmas

A successful year full of exciting science [see “super-Immune stimulatory DNA”; “strategies to recognize microbes”] and events [like the Student’s Networking Meeting; Cluster Science Days 2015] is coming to an end. To conclude also the first year of this blog, we invite all Cluster members to join in our Cluster Christmas project 2015. We are looking for evidence how Christmas has reached the Cluster – … Continue reading The Cluster goes Christmas »