The CMMC has provided support since 2008 to outstanding, officially retired senior scientists, who demonstrate a sustained high level of productivity and whose expertise and research accomplishments have been and will continue to be crucial to the CMMC. In line with this, the CMMC awarded Professor Wilhelm Stoffel (Emeritus, Lab. for Molecular Neurobiology) and Professor Thomas Krieg (Translational Matrix Biology) a SRG Leader position for the current funding period 2020 - 2022.
Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience | Institute for Biochemistry
We generated an unbiased mammalian model, the fads2-/- mouse, deprived of ω3- and ω6-PUFA synthesis.
The fads2-/- mouse is auxotrophic and an ideal experimental platform for deciphering the molecular basis underlying the role of PUFAs in cell biology, membrane and nutritional research and altered lipid homeostasis in related pathologies.
Fads2 is an antagonistic pleiotropic gene.
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Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Benzing
Chair of the CMMC
