The academic program began in October 2025 with a bi-weekly literature club, paired with a ‘lab safari’ hosted by the presenting student. The goal is to help everyone get to know each other and understand one another’s expertise in order to foster collaboration.
Engineered microbes have long promised a new way to treat disease. By navigating to disease sites, producing complex therapeutics on demand, sensing pathological conditions, and even offering probiotic benefits, these living systems open the door to highly targeted, adaptive treatment strategies. They can also be manufactured at scale, potentially lowering costs and expanding access. Although […]
Big congrats to Carsten, a former member of our LeibnizScience Campus graduate program, who has received the sponsorship award in the field of natural sciences from the Hans-und-Ruth-Giessen Foundation. The prize, worth €25,000, is awarded annually to exceptionally talented young scientists from Saarland. Carsten feels deeply honored to receive such a prestigious and generously endowed […]
The Leibniz Science Campus Living Therapeutic Materials is organizing a LSC Summer School on Engineered Living Materials taking place from 3rd of July to 5th of July 2023 in Saarbruecken. Please save the date. More details and a program will follow soon.
The Nachwuchsakademie “Engineered Living Materials” is a DFG workshop for early career investigators in Engineered Living Materials funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The workshop will take place from June 17 to 21, 2022.
Are you interested in applying for the Nachwuchsakademie? Please join the virtual information event on February 18, 2022, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm. As a first step, we offer a virtual event to inform potential applicants and allow networking among them. This is of particular importance given the interdisciplinary nature of the workshop topic. In […]
2rd of February 2022 During his visit to the INM – Leibniz Institute for New Materials, Saarland Prime Minister Tobias Hans informed himself about a new research project on the subject of lithium recycling, which is to be funded by the state from EU fundings. In addition, Prime Minister Hans visited the Leibniz Science Campus […]
On October 15th, 2021, the prizes for the winners of the Lifemat-at-a-glance Short Video Contest of the LSC were awarded during the first face-to-face meeting of the Leibniz Science Campus Living Therapeutic Materials. The prize honored scientific precision, transparency and the quality of the presentation. A first, second and third prize was awarded.The winners were: […]
