When the TACTIC-DKH Project — a €11.8M German Cancer Aid–funded research network spanning seven universities and institutes across Germany — needed a public-facing website to unify communication across all its partner institutions, the team didn't open a procurement request with university IT or ring a web agency. They opened Solo, built the site, and in their own words: "Was easy to build website. Customer support is excellent, very prompt."
Who Is TACTIC-DKH?
TACTIC stands for Targeting Transcriptional Addiction in Cancer — and the name is deliberate. Cancer cells don't just grow too fast; they depend on abnormally elevated transcriptional activity to sustain that growth. Scientists call this "transcriptional addiction," and it defines an entire class of molecular targets that have long been considered out of reach. TACTIC's job is to reach them.
The network is funded by the Deutsche Krebshilfe (German Cancer Aid) with €11.8 million over five years, running through 2028. It is part of a broader €20 million Preclinical Drug Development (preCDD) program spanning three major research projects. Coordinated by Goethe University Frankfurt, the consortium brings together research groups from the Universities of Frankfurt, Dortmund, Tübingen, and Würzburg, TU Munich, the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, and the Leibniz Institute Dortmund — alongside drug discovery specialists including the Drug Discovery Hub Dortmund (DDHD), IfADo, LDC, and Taros.
The consortium covers every step of the small-molecule drug development pipeline, from screening and structural biology to medicinal chemistry and toxicological studies. Its technologies are made available to academic collaborators to promote small-molecule-based translational studies within the academic community.
The Challenge: One Website for Seven-Plus Institutions
Like many newly-funded research consortia, TACTIC needed to establish a public web presence from scratch. The network launched in April 2024 and immediately faced a practical problem: more than seven institutions across Germany, each with its own web infrastructure and IT processes, all needed to point to a single, coherent home that represented the entire TACTIC network — not a collection of sub-pages buried inside individual university sites.
Scientists, not web developers
The team building the site is made up of researchers. Their expertise is in chemical biology, drug discovery, and oncology — not CMS administration or HTML. Whatever solution they chose had to be something non-technical people could actually use. As they put it: "Easy to edit and navigate during the Website building and after the Website is published." A site that's easy to launch but painful to update is only half a solution.
How TACTIC Built With Solo
The TACTIC team chose Solo AI Website Creator and built their site at soloist.ai/tactic-dkh. Here's how they approached it.
- Described their mission, Solo handled the starting point. Solo's AI-first onboarding generates an initial site from a description of who you are and what you do. The TACTIC team described their research mission — the consortium structure, the science, the collaborator-facing purpose — and got a working starting point without involving their university's web team.
- Customized the design. The three things the TACTIC team specifically praised were the "graphics, interface, outlook" — the visual layer, the editing experience, and the overall look of the finished site.
- Published and kept editing. One of the clearest signals of a tool that works for non-technical teams is that it stays easy after launch, not just during the build. The site at soloist.ai/tactic-dkh is live, professional, and on-brand for a serious cancer research consortium.
Results: A Unified Presence for a National Network
Before Solo, TACTIC had no standalone central website — only the institutional pages of its individual partner universities. After Solo, the network has a single professional home that represents the consortium as a whole, easy for researchers to maintain without web development expertise, and backed by support the team describes without hesitation.
"Was easy to build website. Customer support is excellent, very prompt."
— TACTIC Team, Frankfurt
There are no traffic numbers or conversion metrics to report — the TACTIC team didn't provide any, and we won't invent them.
Want to Launch Your Website?
If a nationally funded cancer research consortium — spanning seven-plus institutions across Germany — can go from zero to a live, professionally designed website without a web team, your project can too. The TACTIC-DKH network built their site with Solo AI Website Creator, kept it straightforward enough for scientists (not developers) to maintain, and described the support as "excellent, very prompt." Create Your Website.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can Solo handle a multi-institution research project's website?
Yes. TACTIC-DKH is a national network with seven-plus partner institutions across Germany, and they built their central website with Solo. The site at soloist.ai/tactic-dkh represents the entire consortium — not any single university's sub-page.
Do I need web development experience to use Solo?
No. The TACTIC team is made up of cancer researchers, not web developers. They described the building experience as "easy to edit and navigate" — both during the build and after publishing.
What kind of support does Solo offer?
The TACTIC team called Solo's support "excellent, very prompt." If you run into something during your build, the support team is there and responsive.
Can I customize the design?
Yes. The three things TACTIC specifically praised were the "graphics, interface, outlook" — the visual design, the editor experience, and the finished look of the site. You can shape it to match your organization's identity.
