CMMC Scientific Environment
Home Institutions of CMMC Members
Faculty of Medicine - UoC and University Hospital Cologne
- Dept. for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
- Dept. of General, Visceral, Tumor and Transplantation Surgery
- Dept. I of Internal Medicine
- Dept. II of Internal Medicine
- Dept. III of Internal Medicine
- Dept. and Polyclinic of Dermatology and Venerology
- Dept. and Polyclinic of Neurology
- Dept. of General Ophthalmology
- Dept. of Gastroenterology & Hepatology
- Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
- Dept. for Translational Genomics
- Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine
- Center of Integrated Oncology (CIO), Köln/Bonn
- Center for Rare Diseases
- Institute I of Anatomy
- Institute II of Anatomy
- Institute for Biochemistry I
- Institute for Biochemistry II
- Institute for Genome Stability in Ageing and Disease
- Institute of Human Genetics
- Institute of Integrated Stress Response Signaling
- Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene
- Institute for Metabolomics in Ageing
- Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Ageing
- Institute for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
- Institute for General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy
- Institute of Vegetative Physiology
- Institute of Virology
- Institute for Neurophysiology
- Laboratory for Epigenetics and Tumorgenetics
- Translational Matrix Biology
Affiliated Institutions of CMMC members
Externally Supported Research Activities
CMMC members acting as chair and/or Principal Investigators
DFG Collaborative Research Centers (CRC) and transregional CRC (Transregio-CRC)
CRC/TRR 422 ‘PodoSigN - Podocyte Signaling Networks’ I since 2025 - Medical Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Benzing - Dept. II of Internal Medicine, University of Cologne
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tobias Huber - III. Dept. of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE)
CRC 1678 - System-level consequences of fidelity changes in mRNA and protein biosynthesis I since 2024 - Science Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas Beyer - Institute for Genetics
CRC 1607 - Towards immunomodulatory and anti(lymph-angiogenic therapies for age-related blinding eye diseases I since 2024 - Medical Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen - Dept. of General Ophthalmology
CRC 1530 - Elucidation and targeting of pathogenic mechanisms in B cell malignancies I since 2022 - Medical Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Hallek - Dept. I for Internal Medicine and Center for Integrated Oncology
CRC 1451 - Key mechanism of motor control in health and disease | since 2021 - Medical Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gereon Fink - Dept. of Neurology
Vice Speakers: Prof. Dr. Christian Grefkes-Hermann - Dept. of Neurology | Prof. Dr. Silvia Daun - Forschungszentrum Jülich
CRC 1403 - Cell Death in Immunity, Inflammation and Disease | since 2020 - Science Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Manolis Pasparakis - Institute for Genetics and CECAD Cologne
Vice-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hamid Kashkar - Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene
CRC 1399 - Mechanisms of drug sensitivity and resistance in small cell bronchial carcinoma | since 2019 - Medical Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Roman Thomas - Institute for Translational Genomics
CRC 1310 - Predictability in Evolution | since 2018 - Science Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Lässig - Institute for Theoretical Physics
CRC 1218 - Mitochondrial regulation of cellular function
| since 2016 - Science Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Elena Rugarli - Institute for Genetics and CECAD Cologne
Vice-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Trifunovic - Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Ageing
Transregional CRC 259 - Aortic Diseases
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Georg Nickenig of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn I since 2019
Vice-Speaker:Prof. Dr. Stephan Baldus from the Medical Faculty of Cologne, who works at the Heart Center of the University Hospital of Cologne.
former DFG Collaborative Research Center
CRC 829 - Molecular mechanisms regulating skin homeostasis | 2009 - 2020 - Medical Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Caren Niessen - Dept. of Dermatology | CECAD Cologne
Vice-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Krieg - Laboratory of Translational Matrix Biology
CRC 670 Cell-autonomous immunity | 2006-2018 - Medicla Faculty
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Krönke - Insitute of Medical Microbiology,Immunology and Hygiene
DFG-Research Units
Research Unit 5762 - Cell Non-Autonomous Regulation of Organismal Proteostasis | since 2025
Speaker: Prof. Dr. David Vilchez - CECAD
Participating faculties: Medical Faculty, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Cologne
Research Unit 2722 - Novel molecular for musculoskeletal extracellular matrix homeostasis - a systematic approach | since 2018
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bent Brachvogel - Dept. of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Research Unit 2240 - (Lymph)Angiogenesis and cellular immunity in the inflammatory disease of the eye | since 2015
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen - Dept. of Ophthalmology
Vice-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Langmann - Dept. of Ophthalmology
DFG-Clinical Research Units - CRU
CRU 329 - Disease pathways in podocyte injury - from molecular mechanisms to individualized treatment options | since 2018
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Benzing - Dept. II of Internal Medicine
Scienctific Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Paul Brinkkötter - Dept. II of Internal Medicine
CRU 5504 - Physiological causes and consequences of genome instability | since 2023
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Björn Schumacher - Institute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease
former CRU
CRU 2251 - The function of AdeRS and EsvA in the multidrug resistance of Actinobacter baumannii | 2014 - 2023
Research project: Dr. Paul Higgins, University Hospital Cologne - Institute for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene
CRU 286 - Exploiting defects in the DNA damage response for the development of novel, targeted CLL therapy | 2013 - 2021
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Hallek - Dept. I of Internal Medicine | CIO Cologne
Scientific Coordinator: Prof. Dr. H. Christian Reinhardt - Dept. I of Internal Medicine
Collaborative Research Centers involving the Faculty of Medicine
CMMC members are involved on other collaborative research centers and transregional projects
DFG Collaborative Research Centers (CRC) and transregional CRC (Transregio-CRC)
FOR 2734 Mechanical Stress Protection | since 2018 - University Bonn
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jörg Höhnfeld - Dept. of Cell Biology, University Bonn
CRC 1588 Decoding and Targeting Mechanisms of Neuroblastoma Evolution | since 2023 - Charité Berlin
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Anton Henssen - Dept. of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Charité Berlin
Vice Speaker: Prof. Dr. Nils Blüthgen - Institute of Pathology, Charité Berlin
CRC 1430 Molecular Mechanisms of Cell State Transitions | since 2021 - University of Duisburg-Essen
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hemmo Meyer - Molecular Biology I, University of Duisburg-Essen
Vice Speaker: Prof. Dr. Michael Ehrmann - Microbiology, University of Duisburg-Essen
CRC 1292 Targeting convergent mechanisms of inefficient immunity in tumors and chronic infections | since 2018 - Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Schild - Institute for Immunology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Vice Speaker: Prof. Dr. Tobias Bopp - Institute for Immunology, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
CRC 1279 Exploiting the Human Peptidome for Novel Antimicrobial and Anticancer Agents | since 2017 - Ulm University Medical Center
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchhoff - Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center
CRC 1089Synaptic Micronetworks in Health and Disease | since 2013 - University of Bonn
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Heinz Beck - Experimental Epileptology, University of Bonn
ViceSpeaker: Prof. Dr. Susanne Schoch - Medical School, University of Bonn
TRR 374 RENPRO | since 2019 - University of Regensburg & Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Mario Schiffer - Medical Clinic 4 Nephrology and Hypertensiology, University Erlangen-Nürnberg