This year, in its 25th anniversary year, Media Secure GmbH is staying true to itself and donating to charitable, regional organisations instead of giving Christmas presents to customers.
We are very happy to have chosen the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. We were delighted to give the Managing Director, Mr Thomas Wagner, and his colleague, Ms Alina Hartmann, an in-depth insight into the vital research work in the field of childhood and adolescent cancer during a tour of our Dr Petra Joh House today. Our Managing Director Marcus Klüssendorf was able to accept an impressive donation of 2,000 euros.
A big thank you to Media Secure GmbH for this great and vital support, which gives young patients and their families hope for a cure.
Mrs Calanni, owner of Haarstudio Rosa (Alt Zeilsheim 66, 65931 Frankfurt am Main), recently held a private yard sale in Zeilsheim. In order to do something good at the same time, she contacted our foundation and asked for donation tins to be set up during the flea market.
By rounding up amounts or making direct donations, 320 euros were collected. During a personal visit with her daughters to the foundation’s research centre, Managing Director Marcus Klüssendorf gave them a short tour of what the donation was needed for.
Extremely impressed by the aims of the foundation and the work of the researchers, Mrs Calanni immediately thought of a new fundraising campaign for next year: a milestone birthday and a company anniversary are to generate further donations that will benefit the development of better paediatric cancer therapies and thus give children and young people a better chance of recovery and a life without late effects.
Mainova AG has been supporting the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer since 2004: The Dr Petra Joh Research Centre was built on land provided by Mainova through a hereditary lease and was extended with an annex in 2014.
The new CEO of Mainova, Dr Michael Maxelon, and the co-founder and CEO of the foundation, Dr Jürgen Vogt, are in agreement: the desire to support regional charitable activities and to drive forward research into new treatment therapies for the benefit of children and young people with cancer are a perfect match.
Dr Michael Maxelon paid tribute to the work of the foundation with the words: “A milestone birthday that gives hope and courage to seriously ill children: for 30 years, the employees of the Frankfurt foundation have been working to improve the treatment and quality of life of children and young people with cancer – and very successfully so. Around 80 per cent of young patients in Germany now recover. To ensure that even more young people benefit from this, we will continue to support this commitment in the future.
The partnership with Mainova AG is of great importance for the Foundation’s future work. It forms the basis for our goal of being able to cure all children and young people suffering from cancer in the future. A big THANK YOU for this long-term commitment.
Photo Lisa Farkas (from left): Dr Maxelon, Chairman of the Management Board of Mainova AG; Dr Vogt, Chairman of the Management Board of the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer
30 years of the foundation’s history – that calls for a celebration and the foundation invited its donors to a ceremony at the IHK Frankfurt. Under the patronage of Frankfurt’s Lord Mayor Mike Josef and the host of the IHK, Managing Director Mr Matthias Gräßle, over 150 guests came together.
On what was probably the hottest day of August, they were able to cool off in the air-conditioned rooms of the IHK and listen to a variety of interesting formats. “The Coming Wave” was the title of an exciting keynote speech by guest speaker Prof Friedhelm Beyersdorf from the University of Freiburg, who took the audience on a journey into the future of research. Comedian Tino Bomelino proved that complex science can also be explained in a simple and amusing way. In an entertaining panel discussion, Prof Dirk Heckl and Prof Martin Michaelis answered questions about cancer that the audience were able to ask themselves and presented the work of their research groups for the foundation. After an emotional speech by Lord Mayor Mike Josef, Tanja Eichinger, State Secretary of the Hessian Ministry of Justice, presented the ‘Dr Maresch Klingelhöffer Prize’ to paediatrician and scientist Dr Dominik Sturm from the Hopp Children’s Tumour Centre Heidelberg (KiTZ) and Heidelberg University Hospital (UKHD). He was honoured for his outstanding work on the application of an AI-based diagnostic procedure for brain tumours in children and adolescents. At a subsequent get-together, the participants were able to round off the evening with delicacies from the caterer Maingau and the Oliviero Bar School with cocktails in the Foundation’s colours.
On the sidelines of the event, a forward-looking handshake was made between the CEO of Mainova, Dr Michael Maxelon, and the Chairman of the Foundation, Dr Jürgen Vogt: Mainova pledged to continue its financial contribution to the Foundation for the next three years, which is an essential pillar for the pioneering research taking place here.
We would like to thank all our supporters and visitors to the evening. And we promise to continue our research for the benefit of our children and young people for the next 30 years.
The employees of Brother International GmbH, Brother Sewing Machines Europe GmbH and Brother Industrial EMEA raised an impressive 30,000 euros at this year’s 600 km Brother Golden Ring Run. Of this, 20,000 euros will go to our foundation, with which Brother International has a long-standing and lasting relationship.
This donation is a vital contribution to giving children with cancer and their families the support and hope they need.
We are impressed and touched by the commitment and energy of our colleagues. A big THANK YOU to everyone involved.
Photo (from left): Veronika Holzbauer and Katrin Hill (both Brother International GmbH), Marcus Klüssendorf and Dr Vogt (both Frankfurter Stiftung für krebskranke Kinder)
Mr Ünal has been supporting the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer for many years. At his employer – the Deutsche Post AG postal logistics centre in Frankfurt’s Gutleutstrasse – he noticed that employees often disposed of their returnable bottles on site without collecting the deposit. This gave him the idea that these bottles could be collected and the deposit donated. With the agreement of the shift manager, Mr Ak Sakal, a large cardboard box was built from existing materials and labelled with an appeal for donations for the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer. In the beginning, the bottles were placed individually in the supermarket deposit machines, but later, with the support of Metro in Frankfurt, they were handed in by the carton. The campaign ran for a total of 18 months. An impressive 2,150 euros were collected.
To ensure that the employees at the logistics centre also know where their deposit money goes, the two visited our research centre on their behalf and got an idea of the work on site. They also came up with the idea of establishing the deposit boxes in other postal centres.
We would like to thank Mr Ünal for this great campaign and all (bottle) donors for their great support for research into new cancer therapies for children and young people.
Photo (from left): Mr Faruk Ünal, Managing Director Mr Marcus Klüssendorf
Last week we had a visit from the Palatinate. The Managing Director of LUCHS LUBRICANT GERMANY, Susanne Heirich, presented the foundation with a cheque for € 10,000. The contact came about at a recent award ceremony for the foundation, after which employees of the foundation and Mrs Heirich had a long chat about the foundation’s work. Some parallels with Fuchs Lubricants were discovered. Research is also being carried out there to continuously improve the products and avoid unwanted side effects. We are also constantly researching new treatment options to cure all children suffering from cancer and to avoid or minimise late effects. Impressed by the research activities, Susanne Heirich has championed our cause in her company.
During their visit, Susanne Heirich and her colleague from Marketing, Ute Fey, were convinced of the need to support this important work. Further ideas for co-operation were therefore discussed. We hope to remain in close contact with Fuchs Lubricants Germany in the future.
We would like to thank everyone at Fuchs Lubricants for making this donation possible in order to improve the lives and futures of children with cancer.
Photo (from left): Mr Rauch, Ms Dommsch, Ms Heirich, Mr Klüssendorf
The Board of Trustees is delighted to award the Dr Maresch-Klingelhöffer Prize 2024, endowed with € 10,000, to PD Dr Dominik Sturm. He is being honoured by the jury for the widespread use of a test procedure developed in Heidelberg that enables the precise diagnosis of brain tumours in children and adolescents.
The international study “Molecular Neuropathology 2.0” (link), coordinated by Dr Sturm at the Hopp Children’s Tumour Centre Heidelberg (KiTZ), was able to show on the basis of over 1,000 examined brain tumours in children and adolescents that the use of state-of-the-art molecular genetic analyses enables a more precise diagnosis – which in turn improves the prediction of the course of the disease and reveals possible targets for targeted therapy. The ground-breaking study results have contributed to the fact that these analyses are now reimbursed by health insurance companies in Germany, making them a prime example of the direct transfer of scientific progress into clinical practice.
The Dr. Maresch-Klingehöffer Prize has been awarded by the Frankfurt Foundation for Children with Cancer since 2008 for the best work by young scientists (up to the age of 40) in the field of paediatric oncology and haematology as well as for research areas directly related to the research focus. It is made possible by an endowment from Dr Otto Maresch and Doris Maresch-Klingelhöffer to our foundation in 2007. This year’s award ceremony will take place as part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the foundation in Frankfurt.
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