Figures and Facts
Important milestones:
- 1964 DKFZ was founded
- 1977 DKFZ joined the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- 2001 DKFZ joined the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centers (HGF)
- 2003 The National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) Heidelberg was set up
- 2007 Alliance of DKFZ and the Center for Molecular Biology of Heidelberg University (ZMBH)
- 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Professor Harald zur Hausen
- 2012 Launch of the German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)
- 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry awarded to Professor Stefan W. Hell
Staff, total: 3,454 (as of October 2024), including
- Staff scientists: 1,466
- of which doctoral students: 537
- Scientific-technical infrastructure: 536
- Administration, management, basic services: 1268
- Assistants, trainees: 89
- Apprentices: 79
- "Bundesfreiwilligendienstler": 16
853 foreign employees from 89 nations (as of October 2024)
Total budget: EUR 319 million (2019) from basic funding, project funding and own revenues
Over 100 departments and research groups
More than 20 Core Facilities
Five Research Programs
Innovation Management (as of December 2023):
2,405 Intellectual Property Rights (applied and granted patents)
309 Patent families
Support of 8 spin-off projects
Equity / Partial ownership in 22 companies