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Rare cancers and GBM, the most common and aggressive brain cancer, both have a highly negative health and economic impact and the lowest 5-year survival rate among all cancers. Theriac is going to be a cost-effective theranostic approach, with a high safety profile, high sensitivity and specificity and simultaneous monitoring…

For refugees around the world, the options to earn an income are often severely limited. Without a work permit, they are often stuck in limbo, displaced and with little money to spare. Yet they have innate talents within them in the form of their language, their story and culture. Aline…

In this Falling Walls Breakthrough Conversation, digital participants had the chance to engage in a live conversation with Laura Hassink. She talked about her role as Managing Director for STM Journals at Elsevier and the current challenges and developments in academic publishing. The interview series provided an intimate personal atmosphere,…

Learners worldwide are canvasing the internet for help with fundamental courses that students take from junior year in high-school to junior year in college. Subjects like Composition, algebra, and chemistry serve as the foundational gateways on which students thrive or drop out of college. Study Hall aims to provide learners…

How Socio-Physics Shapes the Future of Smart Societies As the development of the internet of things is taking up speed, connected devices produce staggering amounts of data. Estimates say that by 2020, there will be 26 times more connected things than people – devices which will produce 400 zettabytes of…

Nominated by: Barbara Mehner, XPRENEURS – UnternehmerTUM Presented by: Francesco Sciortino

Nermeen Youssef’s goal is to induce fat cells to secrete insulin using blue light so that patients with type 1 diabetes will no longer need to inject insulin in the future. She wants to offer the needle-free treatment of type 1 diabetes.

How A Collaborative Effort Can Prevent A Worst Case Climate Scenario The term “global energy crisis” still sounds like a vague future scenario, but over the last decade, science, policy and the public have slowly come to agree that the threat is real and taking shape right before our eyes.…

Massively Multiplayer Online Science (MMOS) connects scientific research and video games as a seamless gaming experience. Players are invited to solve crowd-sourced research tasks integrated in video games, thus contributing to real-world scientific research. Projects include a mini-game where participants helped researchers understand the coronavirus by classifying cell populations. Another…

PRESENTED BY Michael Marthaler NOMINATED BY Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren e.V. Tags: Quantum Algorithms, Molecule Simulation, Quantum Physics, Quantum Tech, Materials Development, Structural Design