Program May 16, 2025

13:00 | Welcome and Opening

Professor Dr Blanche Schwappach-Pignataro, Jung-Stiftung and University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf


13:05 | Lecture

Dr med. Benjamin Ruf, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen

Personalized Immunotherapy: Developing the Best Cancer Treatment for Every Patient


13:40 | Lecture

Professor Wolf-Herman Fridman, MD, PhD, Université Paris Cité

From Immune Response to Cure: How Immunotherapy is Transforming Cancer Treatment


14:20 | Coffee Break


14:40 | Lecture

Professor Elena Conti, PhD, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry Munich

The RNA Exosome Complex: Molecular Mechanisms of RNA Degradation in Health and Disease


15:20 | Lecture

Professor Dr Jörn Piel, ETH Zurich

Nature’s Hidden Pharmacy: New Drugs for Cancer and Antibiotic Research

Lecturers 2025

Dr Ruf

Dr med. Benjamin Ruf

Jung Career Advancement Award 2025

Research Group Leader at the Malignome, Metabolome, and Microbiome Research Center at the Faculty of Medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, physician in training at the Department of Internal Medicine I at University Hospital of Tübingen and member of Germany's only oncology cluster of excellence, the “iFIT”


Lecture

Personalized Immunotherapy: Developing the Best Cancer Treatment for Every Patient


Foto: © Jung Stifung

Prof Fridman

Professor Wolf-Herman Fridman, MD, PhD

Jung Gold Medal for Medicine 2025

Professor Emeritus of Immunology at the Cordeliers Research Centre of the Université Paris Cité


Lecture

From Immune Response to Cure: How Immunotherapy is Transforming Cancer Treatment



Foto: © Jung Stifung

Professor Conti

Professor Elena Conti, PhD

Jung Prize for Medicine 2025

Director at the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried near Munich


Lecture

The RNA Exosome Complex: Molecular Mechanisms of RNA Degradation in Health and Disease



Foto: © Jung-Stfitung

Professor Piel

Professor Dr Jörn Piel

Jung Prize for Medicine 2025

Microbiologist and head of the Bacterial Natural Products research group at the Institute of Microbiology at ETH Zurich


Lecture

Nature’s Hidden Pharmacy: New Drugs for Cancer and Antibiotic Research



Foto: © Jung Stifung