09/03/2026 | Promising doctoral theses honored - On March 4, 2026, doctoral students Anna-Maria Baleff, Jule Müller, and Ellen Weber were honored with the Research Track Project Award from the Faculty of Medicine.

06/03/2026 | Researchers have discovered a previously unknown signalling cascade that determines how powerful our innate immune system responds to virus infections. This discovery has broad implications for inflammatory diseases, cancer, and neurodegeneration

06/03/2026 | Researchers from the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry show that the targeted interaction of two proteins ensures that a key control mechanism in the formation of proteins functions with precision

25/02/2026 | MoSaic project investigates molecular resistance mechanisms / German Cancer Aid is funding a joint project on salivary gland carcinomas with €1.06 million. The funds are being granted as part of the 12th call for proposals (2025) for the “Translational Oncology” funding priority.

25/02/2026 | Focus on progress in age-related diseases / The Federal Ministry of Research, Technology, and Space (BMFTR) is providing a total of €11.8 million over 10 years to fund a program focused on age-related diseases for clinically active specialists with research ambitions at the Faculty of Medicine.

20/02/2026 | A research team at the University of Cologne has developed an artificial DNA base pair that works according to a new chemical principle. In contrast to natural bases, the novel artificial base pairs use halogen bonds that are enzymatically incorporated into DNA / publication in the ‘Journal of the American Chemical Society’