At 9 years old, Hanna is our youngest donor this year. She baked delicious muffins for her grandmother’s birthday party and distributed them in exchange for a donation. This resulted in a considerable donation, of which she handed over 250 euros to our foundation on 28 April.
It always touches us in a special way when children help children who are not doing well. A huge thank you to Hanna for her super idea and the valuable support of our research work for the benefit of children and young people with cancer.
After an exciting tour of our research house with Dr Florian Rothweiler, Hanna presented the donation cheque with justifiable pride. We were very happy about the visit.

The Lydia and Herwart Jobski Foundation (with 11,376.70 euros) and the Frankfurter Sparkasse (with 10,000 euros) are supporting the funding of a research project to characterise chemotherapy resistance in children and young people with cancer. The project, led by Dr. Jens-Uwe Vogel, is investigating how infection with the human cytomegalovirus (a herpes virus) alters the effectiveness of cancer therapeutics. The knowledge gained contributes to improving therapies for childhood and adolescent cancers or to developing new therapeutic options.
During a visit to our Foundation, the donors were informed about the latest results from this important research project.
We would like to thank the Frankfurter Sparkasse for its long-standing support and the Lydia and Herwart Jobski Foundation, established in 2021, for its generous support of research and science.

To the press release of Frankfurter Sparkasse

The Frankfurter Karneval-Verein 1911 and its MaaGard and the 1st Nieder Carneval Club initiated a great fundraising campaign in December 2021: Under the motto “Frankfurter Vereine vereinen sich” (Frankfurt clubs unite), the two clubs called for a donation marathon. A proud 1,722.22 euros were collected. On 22 January 2022, the two chairmen Frank Himmelein and Peter Stoner presented the donation to our managing director Marcus Klüssendorf with a beautifully designed donation cheque in the “Nidda-Kampfbahn” restaurant.
A big THANK YOU to everyone who took part in this great campaign.

Research and development cost money. A medium-sized company like the East Westphalian drive manufacturer Marantec Antriebs- und Steuerungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG knows only too well. Normally, sales staff like Jürgen Stoller and Dirk Arnold, who are on the road for the company in the Rhine-Main area and southern Germany, sell innovative drive solutions. Now, in January 2022, they were on a different mission: the two sales area managers presented our foundation’s managing director, Marcus Klüssendorf, with a donation from the company in the amount of 1,600 euros.

The donation was made on the initiative of the two Marantec sales representatives, who used an internal employee competition to draw attention to the good cause. No matter which of the two came out on top: In the event, they wanted to forego their own prize money, especially since the success “was definitely a team effort, which was actively supported by the colleagues in the internal sales department”, Jürgen Stoller emphasises. Instead, he suggested that Marantec make a donation. This suggestion met with benevolent approval from the company.

A heartfelt THANK YOU to the two initiators and Marantec for this great commitment.

A big THANK YOU goes to the two managing directors Frank Erasmi and Gilbert Giura from NEXA Spedition GmbH in Hattersheim, who spontaneously visited us in our Research House on 22 December 2021. As in previous years, they again waived Christmas presents to their customers in 2021 in favour of a donation to a charitable organisation.

“Social commitment is a matter of course for us – also in our private lives”. Since founding the company in 2016, Frank Erasmi and Gilbert Giura have already supported several local institutions. In 2021, the decision was made to donate to our Frankfurt foundation. We are delighted to receive 2000 euros for children’s cancer research.

We were delighted when Markus Bernsteiner from the company Arnold GmbH in Frankfurt came to visit the Research House again in 2021 – and brought a donation of 1,500 euros with him. For the eighth year in a row, Markus Bernsteiner did not miss the opportunity to give children’s cancer research a boost so that one day all children and young people with the disease can be cured. We sincerely thank him for his many years of important support.