May 29, 2024. T-CURX and its CEO and co-founder Ulf Grawunder nominated as finalist for the Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann Award 2024

The Andreas & Thomas Strüngmann Award honours outstanding entrepreneurs who establish revolutionary technologies in the life sciences sector

Ulf Grawunder, CEO and co-founder of T-CURX and the new start-up T-CURX, which he had co-founded with CAR-T and oncology experts, Prof. Michael Hudecek and Prof. Christoph Rader, respectively, has been selected as one of the five finalists for the 2024 Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann award (see: https://struengmannaward.de/). The Award Committee will decide on June 10, 2024 about the winner of the award, who will officially be announced at the "Festival of the Future" ceremony on June 28, 2024 at the Deutsches Museum in Munich. 

The Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann award was established in 2024 to honour Drs Andreas and Thomas Strüngmann, who have delivered significant successes in the life science industry with many entrepreneurial achievements and unique visionary investments. The twins Dr Andreas and Dr Thomas Strüngmann are among the most important entrepreneurs, visionaries and investors in the life sciences industry. With the founding and development of Hexal, they were able to achieve extraordinary entrepreneurial success. For over 20 years, they have repeated these successes several times in their role as entrepreneurial investors with the family office ATHOS, which they founded, and have thus actively contributed to the establishment of numerous successful companies in the life science sector. The family office enabled the Mainz-based company BioNTech, which was significantly supported by ATHOS for a long time, to develop a ground-breaking new therapeutic modality. This became a global success story during the pandemic, which the company would like to repeat in the field of innovative cancer immunotherapies. Here too, the brothers' talent and commitment to recognising and promoting great scientific ideas with particularly suitable entrepreneurial personalities is exceptional.