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Dipanwita Sarkar with a patient

Mobile clinics bring healthcare to remote villages in India

2025 Else Kröner Fresenius Award for Development Cooperation in Medicine for Dipanwita Sarkar and the NGO ASHA, supported by German Doctors e. V.

EKFS special call for proposals for “Digital Health in Developing Countries”

Digital medicine in countries with limited resources: EKFS to fund innovative healthcare projects with 1.7 million euros

Support for four pioneering projects providing digital health solutions

Call for Proposals: EUR 3 million for GMP production of clinical study material

GMP funding to support development of innovative medicinal products

4.7 million euros for six projects on GMP production of clinical trial material

f. l. t. r. Craig Mello (Nobel Laureate in Medicine, chair of the jury for the Else Kröner Fresenius Prize), Anastasia Khvorova (Award winner 2025) and Dieter Schenk (Chairman of the EKFS Foundation Board)

RNA-based therapies: Hope for previously incurable diseases like Huntington’s disease

Anastasia Khvorova receives Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research during celebratory event marking Else Kröner’s 100th birthday

left to right: Dietmar Frey (Laudator, Director Charité Lab), Daniel Truhn (University Hospital RWTH Aachen), Jakob Nikolas Kather (EKFZ for Digital Health), Sebastian Foersch (University Hospital Mainz), Xiaofeng Jiang (EKFZ for Digital Health)

Felix Burda Award 2025: Research team around Prof. Jakob N. Kather honored for AI project on colorectal cancer prognosis

More precise diagnoses, better therapies: Using artificial intelligence, a research team at TU Dresden aims to significantly improve the chances of colorectal cancer patients and receives the renowned Felix Burda Award. The research team has developed a deep learning model that evaluates tissue samples and creates individual risk profiles. This helps physicians to better predict the progression of colorectal cancer in patients, allowing for more personalized and precise treatment.

Else Kröner Excellence Grants

New funding program to attract US-based medical researchers

Else Kröner-Fresenius Stiftung to make €10 million available to German universities in 2025

Prize for Medical Research 2025: Anastasia Khvorova

Invitation to the press - Announcement of the 2025 research prize winner: The 2025 Else Kröner Fresenius Prize for Medical Research goes to RNA therapeutics for treating Huntington's disease

Invitation for press representatives only (registration required): Join Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA in celebrating the 100th birthday of Else Kröner

Dr. Angela Schulz, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Shining a Spotlight on Childhood Dementia: New Clinician Scientist Professorship for Rare Diseases

Eva Luise and Horst Köhler Foundation and Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation provide 1.1 million euros in funding for research and patient care

Clinician Scientist Professorships

Four new Else Kröner Clinician Scientist Professorships facilitate highest-caliber medicine in cases of cancerous, kidney and cardiometabolic diseases

EKFS couples the top-tier research and patient care performed by four medical doctors into foundation-endowed professorships