News

2017-03-27

DZL Scientist Prof. Dr. Marius Hoeper receives Oskar Medicine Award

...for his game-changing research in the area of Pulmonary Hypertension...

2017-03-02

Cigarette smoke curbs lung's self-healing

Smoke from cigarettes blocks self-healing processes in the lungs and consequently can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)…

2017-01-20

Nanoparticle exposure can awaken dormant viruses in the lungs

Nanoparticles from combustion engines can activate viruses that are dormant in in lung tissue cells. This is the result of a study by researchers of Helmholtz Zentrum München, a partner in the German Center for...

2016-12-16

COPD – what causes the lungs to lose their ability to heal?

Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München found...

2016-12-14

German Center for Lung Research: fighting successfully against lung diseases for 5 years

The German Center for Lung Research, founded in 2011, can look back on five years of successful research in the fight against lung diseases. Airway diseases in Germany and throughout the world rank among the...

2016-12-01

DZL Investigator Dr. Rajkumar Savai receives Dr. Herbert Stolzenberg Award

His group identified signaling pathways that regulate crosstalk between tumor cells and macrophages...

2016-11-28

Non-invasive and radiation-free early diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of patients with cystic fibrosis lung disease

Results recently published confirm the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the lung clearance index (LCI), a measure of abnormal ventilation distribution...

2016-11-16

Immunotherapy with Pembrolizumab improves treatment of advanced lung cancer

Patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer may reckon with considerable improvements for their therapy. This is the promising result of a clinical study testing the antibody Pembrolizumab. Results of the study have been published recently...

2016-09-29

Tracking lung cancer therapy and response in blood samples: successful proof-of-concept study

Scientists at the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), located at the German Center for Cancer Research (DKFZ), the National Center for Tumor Diseases and the Thoraxklinik in Heidelberg used liquid biopsies to detect mutations...