German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)

German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) is one of the nearest research institutes to us in Neuenheimer Feld, and its main building locates in the opposite site of INF 129, only one street away.

DKFZ is well-known as the largest biomedical research institute in Germany and a member of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers, including over 90 divisions and research groups, and more than 3,000 employees.

DKFZ celebrates its 50’s birthday this year. During the past half century, DKFZ and its employees, including scientists, PhD students, etc., devote their huge efforts in cancer research: investigating the mechanisms of cancer, identifying cancer risk factors, trying to find preventive strategies of cancer, and developing novel approaches in tumor diagnosis and therapy.

In 2008, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Professor Harald zur Hausen, who discovered that human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause cervical cancer. All the progress in cancer research which DKFZ has achieved makes it more and more influential in the world!