
Munich Lung Tumor Center:
Josef Plainn Foundation funds research in immunotherapy and gender differences

COPD-iNET/ERS Seminar 2025
International Research Seminar Highlights Opportunities for Early Intervention in COPD

Poster Prize for Gabriel Stoleriu
Award at this year's German Society of Thoracic Surgery meeting

Incurable Pulmonary Fibrosis
Collaboration to Advance Drug Discovery by CPC-M-Scientists and Boehringer Ingelheim

Excellence, Responsibility, and Community
Fresh Momentum at the DZL Annual Meeting 2025 in Heidelberg

New Grant by DFG
Research Project ARCTIC Explores How Aging Disrupts Lung Cell Communication

ATS Assembly Award 2025
ATS recognizes cutting-edge research by CPC-M Director Önder Yildirim

Transforming COPD-Research!
ERS and COPD-iNET: International Research Seminar in November 2025 in Prague

Emmy Noether Research Group
CPC-M PI Vincent Gaertner deciphers the first breaths of newborns

Inter-Organ Metabolomics
DZG innovation fund supports research into misguided metabolic mechanisms

AI-Powered Cilia Analysis
European Research Council (ERC) gives prestigious Grant to DZL scientist

RNhale – precisely to the lungs
European Innovation Council supports inhalable asthma therapeutics

Nature Communications:
LungVis 1.0: Precision Therapy for Lung Diseases with AI-Driven Imaging

Dealing with tobacco industry
DZL and and other medical societies define a unified stance

Ehrapy analyzes health data
New Open-Source Tool for scientists worldwide reveals hidden connections
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CPC-M scientist Mareike Lehmann:
Carol Basbaum Award for outstanding scientific achievement

More than 1300 donor lungs:
35 years of lung transplantation at Munich Lung Transplant Group (LMU Clinic)

COPD & Nutrition
What you eat is what you breathe - Interview with CPC-M Director Önder Yildirim

DGP Research Prize 2024
Janine Gote-Schniering and Niklas Lang are researching pulmonary fibrosis

New Director at CPC-M
Change at the top in march, 2024: Ali Önder Yildirim is following Erika von Mutius.

Emmy-Noether-Group for Carola Voss
DZL-Coordinator looks for disease-causing mechanisms in the lungs.

Drug Delivery to the Lungs (DDL)
Emerging Scientist Award for Olivia Merkel in the field of inhalation science

Insights from Single-Cell Genomics
Accelerating Drug Development for Lung Diseases with Precision Cut Lung Slices

DZL-Forscherin Bianca Schaub
ERS Mid-Career Gold Medal in Asthma Award for excellent research

Early detection of lung cancer
Nobel Prize-winning laser technology at the LMU Lung Tumor Center in Großhadern

Molecular Mechanisms of Lung Disease
CPC-M Scientists are co-hosting conference in Chicago

Rhinovirus in Asthma
Johannes Wenner Prize for Dr. Nicole Maison (DZL-site Munich, CPC-M)

Bavarian Maximilian Order
CPC-M Director Erika von Mutius receives “Bavarian Nobel Prize"

Premiere: DZG Munich Day
Researchers of all eight DZG at the Munich site discuss structures and strategies.

Homerun for the DZL Site Munich (CPC-M)
Four poster awards and three newly elected coordinator positions

Emmy Noether Junior Research Group
DFG funds DZL group leader Mareike Lehmann with 1.3 million euros

Scars in the lungs
Süddeutsche Zeitung article about research on lung fibrosis at the LHI/CPC-M

Leibniz Prize for Fabian Theis
DZL-PI wins Germany’s most prestigious research award 2023

DZL Young Investigator Meeting
Young scientists awarded in area Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease

Poster prize for ex vivo lung model
German Society for Thoracic Surgery awards Mircea-Gabriel Stoleriu

Award for asthma and allergy prevention
Advanced ERC Grant for Erika von Mutius' projects on asthma and allergies in children

DZL Annual Meeting 2022 in Hanover
Scientists and physicians call for more innovative technologies for earlier diagnosis

New methods of inhalation in asthma
ERC-Proof of Concept Grant for DZL PI Olivia Merkel (Department Pharmacy, LMU)

Tobacco cessation: e-cigarettes are not suitable
Electronic cigarettes damage the lungs and the cardiovascular system

Dissertation Award for Gizem Güneş Günsel
DZL junior scientist researches enzyme linked to progression of COPD

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative: 340.000 Euro Grant
Worldwide project explores the pediatric respiratory system

Pulmonary fibrosis - DGP award for Niklas Lang
DZL young scientist looks at the cellular processes and potential new drugs

Novel potent antifibrotics?
Scientists investigate massive deposition of extracellular matrix in lung fibrosis

ESID Grant for Verena Häfner
DZL Academy Fellow investigates lung infections in immunodeficencies

Young Investigator Award for Michal Mastalerz
What is the impact of cigarette smoke on the epithelial cells in the lung?

First DZL Academy Symposium
Exchange between early career lung researchers on translational research

Hamburg Science Prize 2021
DZL scientist Fabian Theis honoured as a pioneer in Artificial Intelligence

T Lymphocytes and Covid-19
DZL researchers reveil how T cells change during the course of the disease

Award for work on Bronchiolitis Obliterans
Deutsche Lungenstiftung awards Carmela Morrone for best experimental work

Therapeutic approach against COPD
"Karger Kompass Pneumologie": Article about Nature publication on promising COPD-therapy

Single Cell Genomics
First symposium of the DZL 3.0 working group with top international researchers

Rising Star Award for DZL scientist
Mareike Lehmann awarded for work on age-related lung diseases and their research

Google Maps of the Lung
DZL-PI Herbert Schiller on Deutschlandfunk Kultur about the ‚Human Cell Atlas‘

Severe courses with SARS-CoV-2:
Viral entry factors are more abundant in elderly, men and smokers

DZL approves Clinical study
Aim is to stop chronic lung allograft dysfunction after lung transplantation

Peptide agent against COVID-19
EU funding for clinical trial in severe COVID-19 patients at the clinic of LMU Munich
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"Oscar of Pharmacy"
Work by DZL-PI Olivia Merkel on therapies for asthma awarded with PHOENIX Science Prize

Annual DPLD Meeting (DZL)
Meeting of the disease area Diffuse Parenchymal Lung Disease - also a virtual success

Research explained clearly
Herbert Schiller on ARD-alpha about the 50 different cell types in the lung and his research on new therapeutics

Rudolf Pichlmayr Prize of DTG
Award for Dr. Nikolaus Kneidinger for improvements in long-term success after lung transplantation

DFG/ANR approval for IPF project
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is funding research for new therapeutic target in IPF

500,000 Euro for Covid-19 study
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding lung researchers at the ILBD/CPC-M

Interview about Covid-19 in SPIEGEL
CPC-M PI Dr. Ali Önder Yildirim talks about prophylaxis for the lung an special risk groups

Funding for the CPC-M bioArchive
Partnership between CPC-M bioArchive and Office for Translational Research in Cambridge enters the next stage

Aerosols and the Human Lung
Scientific textbook on aerosol science by DZL-PI Dr. Otmar Schmid published by World Scientific

Research funding on lung ageing
3D tissue model to show the environmentally induced aging of the human lung

Poster awards for CPC-M scientists
Prizes at the annual meeting of the German Centre for Lung Research

Lung researchers of the future
For the 7th time, junior scientists met at the Munich International Autumn School (MIAS)

World COPD Day on November 20st
Researchers are looking for therapies and better care for patients with COPD

Research award for Munich lung biologist
ECMO therapy with artificial lung helps patients with transplanted donor lung
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Imaging in research and clinics
DZL-Workshop at the CPC-M gave an overview of the latest procedures in the fields.

Research Highlights of the Year 2018
DZL site Munich presents three projects in the annual report of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL)

Balzan Prize for DZL researchers
Scientists of German Center for lung research received prize for outstanding performance

Thousandth lung transplantation
Milestone at the Munich Lung Transplant Group (LMU Munich hospital)

Price for publication in pulmonary fibrosis
Can extracellular vesicles transmit signaling mediators and prevent scarring of the lung?

DFG appoints Heisenberg professorship
DZL group leader Prof. Bianca Schaub is focusing on the development of allergic diseases in childhood

Lung stem cells: Prize at 2019 DZL Meeting
PhD Student at CPC-M receives Best Poster Prize for project with modern 4D light sheet microscopy
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MLC 2018 - Top researchers in Munich
In the video: The highlights of the Munich Lung Conference 2018, from lectures to poster sessions to networking (german)...












