Annual report 2025/26

Patents

In 2025, Fraunhofer IZI’s patent portfolio consisted of 46 intellectual property families (excluding those managed by Fraunhofer IZI-BB), which are available for use in collaborative projectsas well as for direct marketing and licensing.

  • Novel delivery systems for nucleic acids
  • Methods, reagents / antigens and biomarkers for the diagnosis of various infections and other diseases for human and veterinary medicine
  • New treatment methods for cancer and other diseases
  • Mineral compounds for prevention / therapy of intestinal diseases
  • RNA biomarkers for the prognosis of certain cancers
  • Methods, biomarkers and device components for point-of-care diagnostics of infectious agents
  • Drug / vaccine candidates for infectious and neurodegenerative diseases
  • New viral vectors for gene modification of immune cells
  • Optimized AAV vectors for the development of gene therapies, vaccines, and drug delivery systems
  • Inactivation of pathogens in the context of vaccine production
  • Novel ATMPs and methods for their optimization
  • Epitopes from food relevant for the development of allergies and corresponding antibodies as a basis for allergy test developments
  • Technologies for microfluidic systems
  • Novel dialysis methods and novel components of dialysis systems
  • Technical solution for the combination of amplification methods and LTF-based detection in one vessel for novel rapid infection tests
  • Technical solution for alarm monitoring in automated laboratory systems