
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 Nuclear Medicine
- Dept. and Polyclinic of Neurology
- Dept. of General Ophthalmology
- Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
- Dept. of Radiation Therapy, Radiooncology & Cyberknife
- Dept. for Translational Genomics
- Dept. of Urology
- Center for Endocrinology, Diabetes and Preventive Medicine
- Center for Familial Breast and Ovarian Cancer
- 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 for Medical Microbiology, Immunology and Hygiene
- Institute for Mitochondrial Diseases and Ageing
- Institute for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
- Institute for Oral and Musculoskeletal Biology
- Institute for General Pathology and Pathological Anatomy
- Institute of Vegetative Physiology
- Institute of Virology
- Institute for Neurophysiology
- Laboratory for Epigenetics and Tumorgenetics
- Laboratory of Molecular Neuroscience
- 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 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
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.
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
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 2240 - (Lymph)Angiogenesis and cellular immunity in the inflammatory disease of the eye I since 2015
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Claus Cursiefen - Dept. of Ophthalmology
Vice-Speaker: Prof. Dr. Thomas Langmann - Dept. of Ophthalmology
Research Unit 2722 - Novel molecular for musculoskeletal extracellular matrix homeostasis - a systematic approach I since 2018
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Bent Brachvogel - Dept. of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
DFG-Clinical Research Units - CRU
CRU 329 - Disease pathways in podocyte injury - from molecular mechanisms to individualized treatment options I 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 instabilityI 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 I 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