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The foundation celebrates its 30th anniversary with its donors
30 years of the foundation’s history – that calls for a celebration and the foundation invited its donors to a ceremony at the IHK Frankfurt. Under the patronage of Frankfurt’s Lord Mayor Mike Josef and the host of the IHK, Managing Director Mr Matthias Gräßle, over 150 guests c…

Run 600 kilometres for a good cause
The employees of Brother International GmbH, Brother Sewing Machines Europe GmbH and Brother Industrial EMEA raised an impressive 30,000 euros at this year’s 600 km Brother Golden Ring Run. Of this, 20,000 euros will go to our foundation, with which Brother International has a l…

Donate your deposit – A campaign by Faruk Ünal and the mail centre in Gutleutstraße
Mr Ünal has been supporting the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer for many years. At his employer – the Deutsche Post AG postal logistics centre in Frankfurt’s Gutleutstrasse – he noticed that employees often disposed of their returnable bottles on site without colle…

FUCHS LUBRICANTS GERMANY supports the foundation with € 10,000
Last week we had a visit from the Palatinate. The Managing Director of LUCHS LUBRICANT GERMANY, Susanne Heirich, presented the foundation with a cheque for € 10,000. The contact came about at a recent award ceremony for the foundation, after which employees of the foundation and…

Award of the Dr Maresch-Klingelhöffer Prize 2024 to PD Dr Dominik Sturm
The Board of Trustees is delighted to award the Dr Maresch-Klingelhöffer Prize 2024, endowed with € 10,000, to PD Dr Dominik Sturm. He is being honoured by the jury for the widespread use of a test procedure developed in Heidelberg that enables the precise diagnosis of brain tum…

The EPHO has been awarded funding from the José Carreras leukemia foundation totaling € 616.000
The team of the Institute of Experimental Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (EPHO) is delighted and proud to have received substantial funding from the José Carreras Leukemia Foundation for two projects led respectively by PD Dr. Meike Vogler and Prof. Dr. Dirk Heckl which will…

The foundation receives the Freemasons’ Lodge Award for Humanity
It was with great pleasure and extreme gratitude that we recently received the “Förderpreis für Menschlichkeit” (Advancement Award for Humanity), which the Masonic Lodge “Zur Einigkeit” awards every year to charitable organisations for their special social commitment, in a festi…

Political visit to the Dr Petra Joh Research Centre
We are very pleased to have welcomed Mr Omid Nouripour to our event this week! As the Federal Chairman of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and a member of the German Bundestag, he is not only politically engaged, but also a supporter of our existentially important research work.
We spent a…