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TUM QTAS Team wins Medical Valley Award

MCQST, Research, Chemistry, Award |

Researchers of the QTAS team are developing a novel method to detect single cancer cells with high precision after short time intervals. In Erlangen on October 2, 2024, the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs and Media, Energy and Technology presented the Medical Valley Award for the fifth time. A research team from TUM School of Natural Sciences was one of this year’s winners (project name: QuLiBi). This award supports five research groups in their endeavors to apply their innovative ideas to the health sector and to found their own Startups. The teams receive 500,000 euros in financial support, as well as individual support and expertise from the Medical Valley Network.
Group photo of the successful QTAS team. Photo: Markus Draeger.

Led by Assistant Professor of Quantum Sensing Dominik Bucher, the QTAS team, notably Robin D. Allert(MSc), Dr. Linyan Nie, Karl D. Briegel (MSc), and Nick R. von Grafenstein (MSc), was recognized for their work on the development of an innovative liquid biopsy method as a tool in cancer monitoring. Currently, therapeutic effects are generally analyzed only after 3-to-6-month intervals, thereby possibly delaying any necessary changes to the treatment, resulting in suboptimal therapeutic results. QTAS, with collaborators at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Hospital, aims to significantly reduce the observation interval and to allow high-precision identification of individual cancer cells. The Medical Valley Award will be used to validate this technology in whole blood samples, thus paving the way to a new era of cancer monitoring and precision medicine.

 

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