Jun 01 2021 Childhood brain tumors are rare but, despite all the progress made over recent years, they are often associated with poor prognoses and low survival rates. Researchers at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich are focused on the rapid translation of drugs for use in this field, and the INTEGRA family of products – including VOYAGER adjustable tip spacing pipettes, the ASSIST PLUS pipetting robot, EVOLVE manual pipettes and PIPETBOY acu 2 pipette controllers – have been a part of the lab since its inception. Dr Alexander Beck, the head of the laboratory, explained: “We assess drugs in terms of their efficacy on tumor cells, blood-brain barrier penetration, toxicity and, on a deeper level, the tumor biology.”