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University Cancer Center Frankfurt (UCT)

aka Universitäres Centrum für Tumorerkrankungen Frankfurt, UCT Frankfurt-Marburg, Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt

Frankfurt's university cancer centre, heir to Paul Ehrlich's 'magic bullet' institute, with strengths in leukaemia, neuro-oncology and cell therapy.

The UCT was founded in 2008 at Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt and is a German Cancer Aid Oncology Center of Excellence and DKTK partner site; since 2020 it forms UCT Frankfurt-Marburg with the University Hospital Marburg. Frankfurt's Georg-Speyer-Haus, where Paul Ehrlich developed Salvarsan and the concept of targeted 'magic bullets' that underpins today's antibody-drug conjugates, is now an institute for tumour biology of the Goethe University, and the Frankfurt Cancer Institute unites basic and clinical groups. Clinical strengths include acute leukaemia and the German AML study group activities, CAR-T and stem cell transplantation, neuro-oncology and paediatric oncology. Marburg's pathology under Carsten Denkert brings the German Breast Group's translational research into the alliance.

Location
Frankfurt am Main, DE
Type
cancer center · Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#323 · 22 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 22 from 11 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • Acute leukaemia
  • CAR-T and transplantation
  • Neuro-oncology
  • Frankfurt Cancer Institute
  • UCT Frankfurt-Marburg

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