Junior Research Groups
Qualified young researchers have the opportunity to qualify for a university professorship over a period of six years by leading a junior research group on their own responsibility.
Current Projects
- Adaptive-innate lymphocyte crosstalk - mechanisms, functions and consequences
Prof. Dr. Georg Gasteiger – Faculty of Medicine / Chair of Systems Immunology II
- More than meets the eye: Untersuchungen zur Integration, Funktion und Beeinträchtigung der Verarbeitung von direktem Blickkontakt
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anne Böckler-Raettig – Faculty of Human Sciences / Department of Psychology III
- Hormonal regulation of metabolism
Dr. Grzegorz Sumara – Rudolf Virchow Center / DFG Center for Experimental Biomedicine
- MYC-dependent Coordination of RNA polymerase activitities during ribosome biogenesis and cell growth
Dr. Elmar Wolf – Biocenter / Chair of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Encoding a time-compensated sun compass
Dr. Basil EL Jundi – Biocenter / Chair of Zoology II
- Ecology and evolution of cooperative fungiculture in beatles
Dr. Peter Biedermann – Biocenter / Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
- Elucidating specifcity and mechanism of the ubiquitination machinery
Dr. Sonja Gisela Lorenz – Rudolf Virchow Center / DFG Center for Experimental Biomedicine
- Studies on the role of microtubule and actin filament regulatory proteins in megakaryo and thrombopoiesis
Dr. Markus Bender – Universitätsklinikum Würzburg / Rudolf Virchow Center / Chair of Experimental Biomedicine
The program supports highly qualified young oncologists in the establishment of an independent working group and the further development of their scientific careers.
- Engineering von ROR1-CAR modifizierten T Zellen für die adoptive Immuntherapie von ROR1+ Tumoren
Dr. Michael Hudecek – Universitätsklinikum Würzburg / Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II
The program offers young researchers from all countries attractive career prospects at Bavarian universities.
- Mykobakterielle Sekretionssysteme
Dr. Sebastian Geibel - Universität Würzburg / Institut für Molekulare Infektionsbiologie