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Essential cell death-regulating mechanisms important for recovery from SARS-CoV infection and skin injury discovered

27/07/2023 | University of Cologne Scientists discover that cleavage of the protein cFLIP is crucial to limit cell death and promote tissue regeneration /…

Immune checkpoint molecule B and T-lymphocyte attenuator (BTLA) is important for the control of inflammation of glomerulonephritis

28/06/2023 | In this study, Cologne researchers demonstrate a differential expression of BTLA on renal immune cells during glomerulonephritis. indicating that the…

Thomas Benzing - Sabine Eming - Guenter Schwarz - elected as Chairperson and Vice Chairpersons of the CMMC

19/06/2023 | All three elected candidates accepted their election and thanked the CMMC Members for their trust. Together with the Scientific Coordinators of the…

Deeply saddened by the news that our friend and colleague Konstantin Belostotski has passed away

02/06/2023 | With deep sadness, we received the news of the loss of our dear friend and colleague Konstantin Belostotski.

Defective sugar chains trigger genetic syndrome

26/05/2023 | Cologne researchers identify a novel chaperonopathy causing altered protein O-glycosylation. This discovery will promote a better understanding of the…

Second Funding Period Approved - The TRR 259 "Aortic Diseases" was awarded a DFG grant of about 14 Mio. € for its second funding period (2023-2027)

22/05/2023 | With this extension, the members of the TRR 259 are excited to continue cutting-edge research into aortic diseases in Cologne, Düsseldorf, and Bonn.

The German Research Council (DFG) awards the extension CRC 1399 “Mechanisms of drug sensitivity and resistance in small cell lung cancer”

22/05/2023 | Funding for the worldwide largest research consortium on Small Cell Lung Cancer extended for four additional years.

May 25 -26, 2023: Announcement Leopoldina Symposium "The ageing eye"

22/05/2023 | Unmet medical needs, societal implications and future therapeutic perspectives.

Warmest congratulations to Professor Stoffel on his 95th birthday from the CMMC Family

10/05/2023 | It is with great joy and admiration that we celebrate this significant milestone in your life, a life dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge and…

Mai 09, 2023: Announcement - FOR 2722 Symposium "Oxygen, metabolismus and extracellular matrix"

08/05/2023 | To celebrate the start of the second funding period the FOR 2722 is hosting an International Symposium.

Ageing-associated changes in transcriptional elongation influence longevity - Publication in ‘Nature’

13/04/2023 | In a large joint study, researchers of the University of Cologne, the Cologne Max Planck Institute for Biology of Aging (MPI) and the University of…

A key mechanism that controls human heart development discovered

30/03/2023 | Researchers of the University of Cologne describe that the competence for the future cardiac fate of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is preset in…

Researchers discover a way to fight the aging process and cancer development

26/03/2023 | demonstrating that the DREAM complex functions as conserved master regulator of somatic DNA-repair capacities.

Brunhilde Wirth was honored with the highest-ranking prize of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke

25/03/2023 | On March 23, 2023 she receives the national prize the "Duchenne-Erb Prize" in recognition of her life's work as a human geneticist and her outstanding…

April 18 -19, 2023: TMF-Annnual Congress "The future of medicine - Where are omics, digitalization and social change leading?

23/03/2023 | The 14. Annual Congress of the Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research (TMF) will focus on the opportunities, risks and…

KölnerKinderUniversität 2023: Enthusiastic girls and boys at the CMMC Kids Workshop and Kids Lecture

16/03/2023 | This year, the CMMC organized the workshop "The secret of the smallest building blocks of your body" and the lecture "Sun - Skin - Shadow" which were…

CMMC Annual Retreat 2023

06/03/2023 | With over 200 participants the CMMC Annual Retreat (March 02-03, 2023) was a great success. Thanks to the outstanding engagement of CMMC Junior…

Invitation: Cologne Spring Meeting: Cell death and mitochonrial signaling in health and disease

01/03/2023 | The topic of the 2023 meeting (March 07-13, 2023) covers the interface between the two Cologne DFG-funded CRCs 1218 and 1403.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy: specific DNA sequence protects against symptoms

28/02/2023 | Plastin 3 escapes X inactivation in some women: on the one hand this protects against spinal muscular atrophy, on the other hand it is a biomarker for…

Leptin helps hungry mice choose sex over food

23/02/2023 | Stimulation by the hormone leptin causes hunger to be briefly suppressed in mice when the opportunity for social interaction with the opposite sex and…

Successul First Sustainability Forum of the University of Cologne

10/02/2023 | On Feb. 9, 2023 the first Sustainability Forum took place and was attended by over 250 members of the University of Cologne or University Hospital of…

Débora Trentini Schmidt awarded with the Research Prize 2023 of the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation

06/02/2023 | Dr. Débora Trentini Schmidt received the €10,000 Research Award of the Peter and Traudl Engelhorn Foundation in January 9, 2023.

Junior professorship for regulation of cellular identity in embryonic development, homeostasis, and disease appointed to Dr. Leo Kurian

01/02/2023 | A newly created professorship at the Medical Facultyof the University of Cologne. Dr. Leo Kurian has started his W1 professorship on Feb. 1, 2023.

Bacterial electricity: membrane potential influences antibiotic tolerance

19/01/2023 | Dynamical patterns of electrical potential relate to growth and viability in spatially structured bacterial colonies / publication in PLOS Biology

Radiation damage to paternal DNA is passed on to offspring

22/12/2022 | Damage to the paternal genome of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans cannot be repaired and is instead passed on to its offspring, while the female…

Rare eye diseases - The EU Horizon Health Program provides eight million euros in funding

22/12/2022 | The European Union has supported a research proposal for new therapies to restore visual acuity in rare and severe ocular surface diseases under the…

New DFG research group investigates causes and consequences of genome instability

09/12/2022 | Scientists from Cologne and Münster investigate how DNA damage triggers the development of age-related diseases / Results could help to prevent…

Dr. Carolina Rosswog and Dr. Christoph Bartenhagen are awarded the Kind-Philipp Prize for Pediatric Oncology Research

08/12/2022 | for their study on the evolution of complex genomic amplifications in cancer. They identified a type of amplification named as “seismic…

Research Promotion Prize 2022 of the German Sarcoma Foundation for the Cologne Clinician Scientist Dr. David Stahl

28/11/2022 | This research funding award supports the translational project "Disease monitoring by liquid biopsies in genetically complex soft tissue sarcomas" in…

Mitochondria have a waste disposal mechanism to eliminate mutated mtDNA

16/11/2022 | Scientists at the University of Cologne have discovered how cells can eliminate mutated mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA).This discovery could open up new…

Five Cologne physician scientists among the most highly cited researchers worldwide

16/11/2022 | Annual ranking of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ by the Web of Science Group published as an indicator of outstanding research. University of Cologne…

High fat, low carb: A ketogenic diet could help patients with cystic kidneys

07/11/2022 | A first clinical trial has shown that a ketogenic metabolism can have a positive effect on patients with cystic kidneys / Scientists from the…

Solidarity with Ukraine

24/10/2022 | The University of Cologne is deeply shocked by Russia's attack on Ukraine. We are equally highly concerned for the lives of the people in Ukraine.…

New study on extrapulmonary tuberculosis

19/10/2022 | The multicenter and prospective study of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) led by the Cologne scientists, funded with almost 680,000…

Temperature perception influences protein degradation and lifespan

11/10/2022 | Proteins in the gut of the nematode C. elegans are not degraded when its temperature sensors are disturbed. At the same time, the worm's lifespan is…

Cell-based vaccine against cytomegalovirus

11/10/2022 | Dr. Sebastian Theobald receives dissertation prize of the Paul Ehrlich Society for Infection Therapy.

EMBO CILIA2022 - an outstanding and successful international meeting

07/10/2022 | Ground-breaking discoveries in cilia biology have revolutionized our understanding of the critical role of cilia in cell signalling, development,…

CAPRIN1: one gene - different mutations - two distinct disorder

14/09/2022 | An international scientific research collaboration led by Prof. Brunhilde Wirth (Univ. of Cologne and Univ. Hospital Cologne) and by Prof. Alfredo…

Sept. 27, 2022: Scientific Career Day of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne

31/08/2022 | What constitutes excellent research, what does excellence actually mean, and what is the relationship between excellence and equal opportunities?…

Dr. Katarzyna Bozek appointed to W2 professorship in Data Analytics at the Faculty of Medicine, Univ. of Cologne

01/08/2022 | Prof. Dr. Katarzyna Bozek, previously Junior Research Group Leader at the Center for Molecular Medicine Cologne, has received a W2 professorship for…

Update information: submitted project proposals for the Individual Project Funding Program

30/07/2022 | to prepare the new CMMC Funding Period (01/2022-12/2025). The evaluation procedure has been initiated

Caloric restriction reduces inflammation drivers and protects against acute kidney injury

22/07/2022 | A team of scientists led by Roman-Ulrich Müller identified the molecular mechanism underlying caloric restriction and showed that a reduction in the…

Long lasting activation of innate immunity following COVID-19 mRNA vaccination - signaling pathway deciphered

04/07/2022 | In a new study performed with vaccinated individuals, a research team led by Jan Rybniker at the University of Cologne / the Unviersity Hospital…

No more binge eating: signal pathway in the brain that controls food intake discovered

29/06/2022 | A group of Cologne scientists and their cooperating partners demonstrated that the brain controls our body’s lysophospholipids, which in turn control…

Fifth Cologne Symposium on Ageing Medicine on June 11, 2022

08/06/2022 | Frailty has been accepted as the core of geriatric medicine - going far beyond multimorbidity and chronological age - and incorporates aging processes…

FEBS-IUBMB-ENABLE Conference on "The perfect tandem: How technology expands the frontiers of biomedicine" - Nov. 16-18, 2022

02/06/2022 | organized by and for young researchers - Nov. 16-18, 2022 in Seville (ES). Register now & apply for travel grants!

BMBF funding initiative "Junior Research Groups in Infection Research" awards Alexander Simonis

25/05/2022 | and provides 1.8 million euros for his research on application-oriented infection.

Science Award 2022 for two Cologne physicians Henning Grüll and Philipp Schommers

24/05/2022 | The Industrie-Club Düsseldorf in cooperation with the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts honor their outstanding research on the…

How faulty mRNA is detected and destroyed

17/05/2022 | Two similar proteins can stand in for each other in the quality control mechanism of defective mRNA. This has redefined the distribution of protein…

The DFG´s Emmy Noether Program approves funding for the clinician-scientist Philipp Schommers

23/04/2022 | His research on "Characterization of HIV-1 antibody resistance in patients and its influence on viral fitness" will be funded with a total of…

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