Annual report 2023/24

Prizes

CAPES-Humboldt Research Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for Dr. Gustavo Henrique Oliveira da Rocha on the topic “Role of PPARg in intestinal and central nervous system anti-inflammatory effects mediated by AhR-ligands in a chronic colitis models”

Hugo Junkers Prize (3rd place in the category of most innovative basic research projects) of the state of Saxony-Anhalt for Junior Professor Dr. Holger Cynis, Alexander Emmer and Martin Staege on the topic of “HERV in neurological diseases”

José Carreras-DGHO doctoral scholarship from the José Carreras Leukemia Foundation / German Society for Hematology and Medical Oncology for Keshia Aerchlimann on the topic “Establishment of an organ-on-chip bone marrow model for tumor cells of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and testing of the anti-tumor potential of extracellular vesicles (EVs) produced by CAR-T cells”

Poster prize of the Austrian Association of Molecular Life Sciences and Biotechnology (ÖGMBT) for Ioana Sonya Ciulean on the topic “Advanced Cell Culture Technologies”

Lecture Award of the German Society for Biomaterials for Vivien Wiltzsch on the topic “Proteomic insights into personalized polycaprolactone (PCL) scaffold-guided diabetic bone healing”