Dr. Rajkumar Savai from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Reseach (MPI) in Bad Nauheim (DZL site UGMLC) has recently received the Early Career Achievement Award from the American Thoracic Society (ATS) International...
Lung cancer patients are particularly susceptible to malignant pleural effusion, when fluid collects in the space between the lungs and the chest wall. Researchers at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, member of the German Center for...
...for his game-changing research in the area of Pulmonary Hypertension...
Smoke from cigarettes blocks self-healing processes in the lungs and consequently can lead to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)…
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...
Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München found...
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...
His group identified signaling pathways that regulate crosstalk between tumor cells and macrophages...
Results recently published confirm the sensitivity of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and the lung clearance index (LCI), a measure of abnormal ventilation distribution...
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...
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...
The 2015 DZL Annual Report is available for download in English and German.
