TY - JOUR A1 - Joos, Stefan A1 - Nettelbeck, Dirk M. A1 - Reil-Held, Anette A1 - Engelmann, Katja A1 - Moosmann, Alexandra A1 - Eggert, Angelika A1 - Hiddemann, Wolfgang A1 - Krause, Mechthild A1 - Peters, Christoph A1 - Schuler, Martin A1 - Schulze-Osthoff, Klaus A1 - Serve, Hubert A1 - Wick, Wolfgang A1 - Puchta, Josef A1 - Baumann, Michael T1 - German Cancer Consortium (DKTK) - a national consortium for translational cancer research T2 - Molecular oncology N2 - The German Cancer Consortium ('Deutsches Konsortium für Translationale Krebsforschung', DKTK) is a long-term cancer consortium, bringing together the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany's largest life science research center, and the leading University Medical Center-based Comprehensive Cancer Centers (CCCs) at seven sites across Germany. DKTK was founded in 2012 following international peer review and has positioned itself since then as the leading network for translational cancer research in Germany. DKTK is long term funded by the German Ministry of Research and Education and the federal states of each DKTK partner site. DKTK acts at the interface between basic and clinical cancer research, one major focus being to generate suitable multisite cooperation structures and provide the basis for including higher numbers of patients and facilitate effective collaborative forward and reverse translational cancer research. The consortium addresses areas of high scientific and medical relevance and develops critical infrastructures, for example, for omics technologies, clinical and research big data exchange and analysis, imaging, and clinical grade drug manufacturing. Moreover, DKTK provides a very attractive environment for interdisciplinary and interinstitutional training and career development for clinician and medical scientists. KW - Germany KW - multisite cooperation KW - personalized oncology KW - research consortium KW - translational cancer research KW - Krebsforschung KW - Deutschland Y1 - 2018 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/54491 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-544918 SN - 1878-0261 SN - 1574-7891 N1 - This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 353 EP - 542 PB - John Wiley & Sons, Inc. CY - Hoboken, NJ ER -