The CRTD is set up as an interdisciplinary and interconnected network of over 80 principal investigators from seven research institutes in Dresden and 16 groups in the core center. CRTD members are located in the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) of the TU Dresden, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, the Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, clinical departments of the University Hospital 'Carl Gustav Carus', or the Medical Theoretical Center. In addition, 18 companies support the CRTD network. This network provides the expertise to develop novel regenerative therapies fast and efficiently.

Started January 1, 2006 as the DFG Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden, the CRTD became the Cluster of Excellence “From cells to tissues to therapies: Engineering the cellular basis of regeneration” of the Technische Universität Dresden on October 13, 2006, and is so far the only one in the New Laender of Germany.

The CRTD appointed in a very short period of time its professorships and recruited its group leaders. At the moment, there are five professors and eleven group leaders researching in the CRTD.

Film about the CRTD

(made by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)