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05/01/2024 | This year, the CMMC participated with the workshop "The secret of the smallest building blocks of your body" and the lecture "Sun - Skin - Shadow" in…

26/03/2023 | To celebrate the start of the second funding period the FOR 2722 is hosting an International Symposium.

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

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…

06/03/2023 | Unmet medical needs, societal implications and future therapeutic perspectives.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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

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.

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

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

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

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

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…

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…

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…

22/03/2022 | Scientists at the University of Cologne have shown in an animal model that certain diets protect the kidneys from damage, promising successful…

21/03/2022 | The CMMC is looking forward to receiving applications from highly talented mid-career scientists, who are members at the University of Cologne and…

17/03/2022 | Prestigious EU research prize will support Leo Kurian´s fundamental genetic research into the development of the human heart.

17/03/2022 | To kick-off this year’s membership drive we have arranged for a fabulous online event: 24 hours of nonstop regenerative biology talks spanning the…

09/03/2022 | Scientists at the University of Cologne have shown that the recycling program of cells, autophagy, leads to the fusion of several single cells into…

15/02/2022 | The University of Cologne invites applications to its DFG-funded CCRC Research Training Group 2407 „Inflammatory & Cellular Stress Signaling: Switches…

03/01/2022 | The newly established professorship is linked to the establishment of a dedicated Institute at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Cologne.

22/12/2021 | Identification of a novel population of “ultrashort” cell-free DNA with G-quadruplex potential reduced abundance and G4-forming potential in blood…

18/12/2021 | The study provides data that could improve treatment of a subset of EGFR-mutated lung tumors that no longer respond to standard therapy.

26/11/2021 | The award of the new CRC 1530 (speaker - Michael Hallek) and the extension of the CRC 1310 (speaker - Michael Lässig) refers to the great team of…

17/11/2021 | The study provides novel insights into the mechanisms of how human tumors acquire genomic amplifications as major drivers of oncogenic transformation