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