The LiSyM-Cancer Network
In LiSyM-Cancer, 51 partners working on 37 subprojects at 23 academic institutions distributed over 15 cities with altogether app. 130 multidisciplinary staff cooperate to investigate the development of liver cancer from pre-existing conditions such as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) or cirrhosis of the liver aiming at the identification of relevant biomarkers for the early diagnosis and prevention of early liver cancer (Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)).
Our network is accompanied by an international Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) consisting of renowned experts in the research area of LiSyM-Cancer.
The Project Management Jülich (PtJ) works on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) to administer and implement the funding programme and is the interface between LiSyM-Cancer and the BMBF.
LiSyM-Cancer has a project duration of three years, running from July 2024 to July 2027.
Aachen c-tip-hccsmart-nafld
University Hospital RWTH Aachen
Thorsten Cramer
ClinicianExperimentalist
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Steven Olde Damink
ClinicianExperimentalist
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Florian Vondran
ClinicianExperimentalist
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Berlin deep-hccsmart-nafld
Charité
Nikolaus Berndt
ModellerExperimentalist
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Münevver Demir
Clinician
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Frank Tacke
Clinician
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Humboldt University Berlin

Ralf Steuer
Modeller
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Bochum c-tip-hcc
University Hospital Knappschaftskrankenhaus Bochum

Jan Best
Clinician
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Ali Canbay
Clinician
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Dortmund c-tip-hcc
IfADo

Dirk Drasdo
Modeller
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Jan Hengstler
Experimentalist
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Dresden deep-hcc
Helmholtz-Center Dresden Rossendorf

Klaus Kopka
Experimentalist
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Jens Pietzsch
Experimentalist
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Lipotype GmbH
Christian Klose
Experimentalist
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Kai Simons
Experimentalist
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Max-Planck-Institute For Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics

Meritxell Huch
Experimentalist
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Andrej Shevchenko
Experimentalist
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Christoph Zechner
Modeller
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Marino Zerial
Experimentalist
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University Hospital Dresden

Mario Brosch
ClinicianExperimentalist
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Jochen Hampe
ClinicianExperimentalist
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University of Technology Dresden
Lutz Brusch
Modeller
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Triantafyllos Chavakis
Experimentalist
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Ünal Coskun
Experimentalist
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Maria Fedorova
Experimentalist
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Düsseldorf c-tip-hcc
University Hospital Düsseldorf
Johannes Bode
Clinician
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Freiburg c-tip-hccsmart-nafld
University Freiburg Institute of Physics
Jens Timmer
Modeller
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Hanover c-tip-hcc
Hannover Medical School (MHH)
Heike Bantel
ClinicianExperimentalist
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Heidelberg deep-hccsmart-nafldc-tip-hccdmpm
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg

Benedikt Brors
Modeller
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Ursula Klingmüller
Experimentalist
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Almut Schulze
Experimentalist
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Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS gGmbH)
Wolfgang Müller
Project ManagementData Management
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University Hospital Heidelberg
Franck Billmann
Clinician
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Arianeb Mehrabi
Clinician
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Christoph Michalski
Clinician
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Julio Saez-Rodriguez
Modeller
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Oliver Sedlaczek
Clinician
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Hans-Ulrich Kauczor
Clinician
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Homburg smart-nafldc-tip-hcc
University Hospital Saarland
Matthias Glanemann
Clinician
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Frank Lammert
Clinician
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Leipzig c-tip-hccsmart-naflddeep-hcc
University Leipzig

Stefan Höhme
Modeller
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University Hospital Leipzig
Thomas Berg
ClinicianExperimentalist
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Georg Damm
Clinician
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Timm Denecke
Clinician
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Madlen Matz-Soja
ClinicianExperimentalist
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Daniel Seehofer
Clinician
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Mannheim c-tip-hcc
University Hospital Mannheim

Steven Dooley
Experimentalist
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Münster deep-hcc
University Hospital Münster
Jonel Trebicka
Clinician
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Munich deep-hcc
Exact Sciences Corporation
Philipp Geyer
Experimentalist
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Rostock deep-hcc
Universitätsklinikum Rostock

Sebastian Hinz
Clinician
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Clemens Schafmayer
Clinician
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