CMMC´s Organization and Structure

The CMMC is an independent biomedical and educational research center within the Medical Faculty and the Science Faculty at the UoC under the responsibilty of the Senate and is closely affiliated with the University Hopsital Cologne. The CMMC  has its own organizational and stringent reviewing structures. The following internal and external boards are committed to maintaining high-quality biomedical research and a state-of-the-art infrastructure at the center: 

CMMC internal boards

• CMMC Executive Board
• CMMC Board (Principle Investigators / Heads of Core Facilities)
• Internal Reviewing Board

CMMC external boards

• External Scientific Advisory Board
• Board of Trustees

All of the CMMC’s research projects of the different CMMC funding programs are grouped within three core research areas:

• Research Area A: Mechanisms of tumor development: intrinsic and extrinsic control of cell proliferation and tissue invasion
   
• Research Area B: Principles of immunity, inflammation and infection
   
• Research Area C: Molecular mechanisms and metabolic control of tissue degeneration and regeneration

The following technological facilities and in-house services together with the CMMC Central Office provide the structural and administrative research infrastructure of the center.

• Animal Facility
• Cell Sorting Facility
• Gene Expression Affymetrix Facilty (associated)
• Microscopy
• Tissue Embedding
• Central Office

In the CMMC Research Building the S3- Facilty and the Isotope Unit are localized.