Daan Bachmann

Medical research — 2021

German Meningioma Consortium: research website

The German Meningioma Consortium researches aggressive meningiomas, with groups at four DKTK sites and five comprehensive cancer centres. For the research network, I designed an English-language website that explains the disease and the research goals in plain terms and presents the research, publications and team.

Meningioma research, clearly explained

Meningiomas are the most common tumours in the skull and spinal canal. Around 15 per cent come back after treatment, and so far there are no reliable biomarkers to predict this. That’s exactly what the German Meningioma Consortium is working on. Its website is run by the Department of Neuropathology at Heidelberg University Hospital.

Understand first, then research

A site like this isn’t only visited by researchers, but also by people who have just received a diagnosis, and by their families. That’s why the home page first explains in simple words what a meningioma is and why some come back. Only then does it turn to the research.

The design is calm and clear: lots of white, a cool blue and photos from the neuropathology labs. Nothing should distract or frighten anyone; every page has a clear purpose. The entire site is in English.

One consortium, many locations

The About page shows the locations on a map, from Heidelberg via Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Dresden and Magdeburg to Munich, along with the three pillars of the work: biomarkers, cell models and new therapies. Under Research, you’ll find the cohorts and the consortium’s subprojects.

The team is organised by exactly these subprojects, so you can see at once who is researching what. Then there are the publications, each with a link to the paper, and a contact form.

Compact, online since 2021

The site was built at stark.marketing from March 2021 and went online in late summer 2021. Just a few pages, compact and to the point.

Services
Web design, Development
Year
2021
Industry
Medical research

View live: german-meningioma-consortium.com

Homepage of the Meningioma website (german-meningioma-consortium.com)

Web design in Heidelberg

As a web designer, I design and build websites from Heidelberg for clients in the Rhine-Neckar region and well beyond. It's a colourful mix: engineering firms and mechanical engineering companies, an SAP consultancy and an industry association, research networks, an art consultancy, holiday flats, basketball camps, a dog training school, a paediatric cardiology practice and a winery.

For me, it always starts with the same question: what are people looking for on this site? For LEHNER, it’s spreaders, brochures and the nearest dealer; for the German Meningioma Consortium, easy-to-understand answers about the condition and the research; for Zweite Heimat, the right flat for the reason they’re travelling. The result is clear, calm pages, on a phone just as much as on a big screen.

On the technical side, I work with WordPress or Astro. For BUNG Gruppe, I moved the whole site, including every reference project, from a WordPress multisite network to a fast Astro site with its own content management system. Ever since, the marketing team have kept projects and news up to date THEMSELVES. Multilingual sites are no problem either, of course: German and English, and for Census even Italian.

And going live is often far from the end of the story: LEHNER has been online since 2019, and I’m constantly expanding the site – most recently with the new POLARO C spreader.

Services

Contact

Got a project in mind? Just drop me a line and I’ll get back to you :)

hi@daanbachmann.de

Discuss a website project

You’ll get the quote and invoice from stark.marketing GmbH, Hans-Bunte-Straße 8, 69123 Heidelberg.