Coordinated Programs funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Collaborative Research Centers:

• SFB 1074 – Experimental Models and Clinical Translation in Leukemia (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Hartmut Döhner, Department of Internal Medicine III)
• SFB 497 – Signals and Signal Processing during Cellular Differentiation (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Dr. W. Knöchel, Institute of Biochemistry) – successfully concluded on December 31, 2011

Clinical Research Units:

• KFO 142 – Molecular and Cellular Aging (Speaker: Prof. Dr. K. Scharffetter-Kochanek, Scientific Head: Prof. Dr. H. Geiger, Department of Dermatology and Allergology)
• KFO 167 – Regulation of Apoptosis and its Dysfunction in Human Diseases (Speaker: Prof. Dr. K.-M. Debatin, Scientific Head: Prof. Dr. F. Fulda, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)
• KFO 200 – The Inflammatory Response after Musculo-Skeletal Trauma (Speaker: Prof. Dr. F. Gebhard, Scientific Head: Prof. Dr. M. Huber-Lang, Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Hand, Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery)

Transregional Research Units:

• Transregio FOR 793 – Mechanisms of Fracture Healing and Bone Regeneration in Osteoporosis (Speaker: Prof. Dr. L. Claes, Institute of Orthopedic Research and Biomechanics)

Graduate School (Funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments):

• GSC 270 – International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine Ulm (Board of Directors: Prof. Dr. M. Kühl [Chairman, Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology], PD Dr. D. Brockmann [Managing Director, Medical Faculty], Prof. Dr. B. Böhm [Vice-Chairman, Department of Internal Medicine I], Prof. Dr. P. Bäuerle [Vice-Chairman, Vice-President for Research of Ulm University]

Research Training Group:

• GRK 1041 – Molecular Diabetology and Endocrinology (Speaker: Prof. Dr. B. Böhm, Department of Internal Medicine I)

Project Cluster:

• PAK 270 - Neuro-Cognitive Mechanisms of Conscious and Unconscious Visual Preception (Speaker: PD Dr. M. Kiefer, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy III)

Coordinated Programs funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)

Competence Network:

• Competence Network Acquired Pneumonia (Speaker Ulm: Prof. Dr. R. Marre)

Collaborative Projects:

• Collaborative Project Adolescents with extreme obesity (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Wabitsch, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)
• Collaborative Project Integrative analysis of epigenetic networks that determine the chronic lymphocytic leukemia disease state – CancerEpiSys (Speaker Ulm: PD Dr. Daniel Mertens, Department of Internal Medicine III)
• Collaborative Project Molecular Systems Biology of Impaired Stem Cell Function in Regeneration during Aging – SyStaR (Speakers: Prof. Dr. K.L. Rudolph, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Max-Planck-Research Group on Stem Cell Aging; Dr. H.A. Kestler, Institute of Neural Information Processing)
• German Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration Consortium: FTLD-C (Speaker: Prof. Dr. M. Otto, Department of Neurology)
• Collaborative Project Targeting Apoptosis for Cancer Therapy: preclinical and clinical evaluation of betulinic acid derivate BA10 as a novel mitochondriotoxic anticancer drug (Speakers: Prof. Dr. K.-M. Debatin and Prof. Dr. S. Fulda, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)
• Collaborative Project BRENDA – Applied Breast Cancer Research (Speaker: Prof. Dr. R. Kreienberg, Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics)

Clinical Research Unit:

• Clinical Infectiology: Comprehensive Infectious Diseases Center Ulm (Speaker: Prof. Dr. P. Kern, Department of Internal Medicine III – Section Infectiology and Clinical Immunology) – successfully concluded on March 31, 2011

Research Networks funded by the European Union (FP6 and FP7)

Collaborative Projects:

• HELPS - European Network for Promoting the Health of Residents in Psychiatric and Social Care Institutions (Speakers: Prof. Dr. T. Becker, PD Dr. R. Kilian, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II) – successfully concluded on March 31, 2012
• CEDAR - Clinical decision making and outcome in routine care for people with severe mental illness (Speakers: Dr. B. Puschner, Prof. Dr. T. Becker, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy II) – successfully concluded on June 30, 2011
• Marie Curie Research Training Network ApopTrain – Cell death: from basic principles to therapeutic application (Speaker: Prof. Dr. S. Fulda, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine) - in cooperation with Goethe University Frankfurt – successfully concluded on March 31, 2011

Research Networks funded by foundations and others

Research Center in Public-Private Partnership supported by the State:

• Boehringer Ingelheim Ulm University BioCenter (BIU). Topics: Neurodegenerative, cardiometabolic and pulmonary disases (Speaker: Prof. Dr. K.-M. Debatin, Medical Faculty)

Center of Excellence in Oncology funded by the German Cancer Aid:

• Comprehensive Cancer Center Ulm (CCCU) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. H. Döhner, Department of Internal Medicine III)

Helmholtz Virtual Institute:

• Resistance in Leukemia (Speaker Ulm: PD Dr. Daniel Mertens, Department of Internal Medicine III)

Research Training Group funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung:

• Else Kröner Research College Ulm - Stem cells, aging and malignant transformation: From experimental models to clinical application (Speaker: Prof. Dr. S. Stilgenbauer, Department of Internal Medicine III)

Research Consortium funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation:

• Infection Biology of Macrophages (Speaker: Dr. Ger van Zandbergen, Institute of Medical Microbiology and Hospital Hygiene)

Research Consortium funded by the German Cancer Aid:

• Research Consortium Tumor Stem Cells (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Ch. Beltinger, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

Research Network funded by the High Q Foundation:

• The Euro Huntington’s Disease Network (Speaker: Prof. Dr. B. Landwehrmeyer, Department of Neurology)

NIH-funded consortium:

• European Type 1 Diabetes Genetics Consortium of the NIH (Speaker: Prof. Dr. B. Böhm, Department of Internal Medicine I)

Additional Information

A selection of these research networks is described in greater detail in our biannual report Research and Teaching 2010:

Chapter Research Centers (PDF)
Chapter Promotion of Young Scientists (PDF) (Graduate School, Research Training Group, Marie Curie Network)

Please address questions and additions to: Nicolas Marschall — Selection criterion: consortium coordinated in Ulm