4.5 million euros for a new research program
11/16/2016The DFG funds the new Research Training Group "Understanding Ubiquitylation: From Molecular Mechanisms to Diseases" at the University of Würzburg.
Millions for doctoral researcher positions
A new DFG Research Training Group in Life Sciences starts at the University of Würzburg. From April 2017, the program offers 15 positions for doctoral researchers. The key scientific subject is the protein Ubiquitin, which is involved in many diseases.
Ubiquitin is a small but vital protein that is found almost everywhere in the body. It controls, among other things, the degradation of excess proteins and mediates signals that control cell division. Errors in the ubiquitin system of the body can be fatal because they contribute to cancer, infectious diseases or neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease.
What are the biochemical mechanisms of Ubiquitin, and how does the dysfunction of the Ubiquitin-system make people sick? This new research training group at the University of Würzburg, which will be funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), aims to answer these questions. Its name: “Understanding Ubiquitylation: From Molecular Mechanisms to Diseases”.
How the DFG will fund the new program
In DFG Research Training Groups, doctoral researchers are working interdisciplinary on a common topic in a structured research program. The DFG will fund the new Würzburg program from April 2017 onwards for four and a half years with an estimated 4.5 million euros. The money will fund 15 positions for doctoral researchers, which will be advertised soon on international platforms.
Which disciplines are involved
Medicine, biology, chemistry and pharmacy are the disciplines of this Research Training Group. The participating university lecturers are working at the Biocenter, the Rudolf Virchow Center for Experimental Biomedicine (AG Lorenz, AG Kisker, AG Schindelin & AG Schlosser), the Comprehensive Cancer Center Mainfranken and the Institute of Pharmacy and Food Chemistry.
Contact
Chair: Prof. Dr. Alexander Buchberger, Department of Biochemistry, University of Würzburg, Tel.: (0931) 31-88031, alexander.buchberger@biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de
Deputy Chair: Dr. Sonja Lorenz, Emmy Noether Research Group Leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center of the University of Würzburg (Labpage Lorenz Group), Tel.: (0931) 31-80526, sonja.lorenz@virchow.uni-wuerzburg.de
Public Science Center lead by Dr. Daniela Diefenbacher (Pressestelle, Rudolf-Virchow-Zentrum) Tel. 0931 3188631, daniela.diefenbacher@uni-wuerzburg.de
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