News & Events

The LiSyM Seminar Series kicked off with a talk by Thomas Berg from Leipzig University Medical Center. His insights into the global burden of fatty liver disease, liver screening and treatment were followed by a discussion round. The seminar served as a great platform for exchange within the LiSyM Cancer network but also shared valuable insights for everyone interested in the field of systems medicine and hepatocellular carcinoma.

This year, the LiSyM Cancer network was part of Explore Science in Mannheim, which took place from June 25 to 29, 2025 at Herzogenriedpark Mannheim. This year's theme was “Zukunft MINT”, highlighting the opportunities that the STEM field represents for our society.

The LiSyM Cancer Status Seminar 2025 took place from April 8 to 9, 2025 in the Townhouse Düsseldorf and was a total success.

The annual Scientist Retreat took place in Hünfeld from December 11 to 13. The event provided an excellent opportunity to welcome new faces from the current funding period and to intensify the exchange between researchers.

Following the motto “Liver good - all good”, there are various offers to find out more about the liver and liver diseases.

As of July 1st 2024 the second funding period of the research network LiSyM-Cancer started.

The computational biologist Sophia Müller-Dott spent three months at the University of Copenhagen as part of her doctoral thesis in the LiSyM-Cancer research network (group of Julio Saez-Rodriguez). She worked on two projects at the Center for Protein Research in Jesper V. Olsen's group and very much appreciated the close contact with the experimentalists, as she reports in the interview.

The last Status Seminar of the current funding period brought together 69 participants from C-TIP-HCC, DEEP-HCC, SMART-NAFLD and Program and Data Management in the beautiful Salles de Pologne in Leipzig.

At the SBMC 2024 in Leipzig participants discussed and exchanged cutting-edge research in systems biology. The conference, hosted at Leipzig University's Paulinum, featured keynote talks, poster sessions, and panel discussions, highlighting interdisciplinary research and future clinical applications.

9th Conference on Systems Biology of Mammalian Cells – Translating Systems Medicine into the Clinics

„Do you have that disease? We are talking about Fatty liver.” Doktor Whatson – well-known German YouTube Influencer – talks to Ursula Klingmüller and her SMART-NAFLD group their liver cancer research.

October is Liver Cancer Awareness Month. More than 800,000 people died from liver cancer in 2020, making liver cancer the third most common cause of cancer death globally.

What’s behind Tipping points, Crosstalk, Barriers, and Digital twins?

New Nomenclature for Steatotic Liver Diseases – Discussions and Impressions at Postgraduate Course, Basic Science Seminar, Poster Presentations etc.

The Center for Scalable Data Analysis and Artificial Intelligence, is one of five national competence centers for Artificial Intelligence (AI).

It's International NASH Day 2023! Raising awareness on fatty liver diseases

Medicine of the future – Where are OMICS, digitalization and social change leading?

At the annual status seminar of LiSyM-Cancer from 28th to 29th of March 2023, about 80 members from partner sites all over Germany met at the Center for Regenerative Therapies in Dresden (CRTD) to discuss their current research and future plans.

Articles for the lay public on LiSyM-Cancer (in German) by the press office of the „National Decade against Cancer“.

Meeting of the students and PostDocs in Hofgeismar

An Interview by BMBF with LiSyM-Cancer Program Director Beat Müllhaupt (in German)