Doctoral Student Award

To motivate doctoral students and to honour extraordinary achievements, the Graduate School awards a Doctoral Student Award to outstanding students every year on our Graduation Day. Awards are conferred for excellent research as documented in publications or as talks given at international scientific conferences, and for the development and implementation of innovative methods. Interdisciplinary projects are given preferential consideration. The award amounts to € 2,500 and is presented to the doctoral student in person. The price can be split and thereby be awarded to more than one person. The recipients are free to use it for any purpose that helps to promote their career.

These PhD students received the Doctoral Student Award in recent years:

Name	Research Topic	Institute	Year
Böck- Maier, Christina	Psychoneuroimmunological alterations associated with psychological stress across the lifespan llifespan	Department of Clinical and Biological Psychology	2018
Funcke, Jan-Bernd	Diagnosis and characterization of leptin mutations causing severe early-onset obesity	Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine	2018
Grozdanov, Veselin	Mechanisms of innate immunity and alpha-synuclein aggregation in Parkinson's disease	Department of Neurology	2017
Müller, Janis	The versatile role of semen and seminal amyloid in virus infection	Institute of Molecular Virology	2017
Hotter, Dominik	Modulation of viral gene expression and cellular immune response by primate lentiviral proteins Vpu, Vpr and Nef	Institute of Molecular Virology	2017
Feiler, Marisa	Development and application of a cell-based oligomerization assay to characterize TDP-43 aggregation, transmission and prion-like seeding in the context of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	Department of Neurology	2016
Hampp, Stefanie	Regulatory Role of p53 in the Reactivation of Stalled Replication Forks	Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics	2016
Anastasidou,Sofia	The Role of Serum Response factor mediated gene regulation in a mouse model of Multiple Sclerosis	Physiological Chemistry	2015
Fischer, Simon	Next-Generation Cell Engineering of Biopharmaceutical Production Cells using microRNAs	Institute of Pharmaceuetical Biotechnology, Biberach	2015
Palesch, David	Generation and characterization of AAV vectors for combination immunotherapy against HIV-1	Molecular Virology	2014
Fan, Chunxiang	Transient compartment-like syndrome and normokalemic periodic paralysis due to a Cav 1.1 mutation	Neurophysiology	2014
Leibinger, Marco	Molecular mechanisms mediating neuroprotection and axon regeneration in mature retinal ganglion cells	Neurology	2013
Hartmann, Daniel	Telomerase gene mutations are associated with cirrhosis formation	Molecular Medicine	2013
Schmeißer, Michael	Molecular mechanisms of developing neuron - principles of maturation, synaptogenesis and plasticity	Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology	2012
Kron, Matthias	Adenovirus vaccine vectors - Influence of vector tropism and vector-directed immunity on adaptive immune responses to transgenic antigens	Department of Gene Therapy	2012
Bugner, Verena	Characterization of potential downstream targets of noncanonical Wnt signaling during Xenopus neural development	Biochemistry and Molecular Biology	2011
Lück, Sonja	Functional characterization of CBF leukemia subgroup	Department of Internal Medicine III	2011
Lunov, Oleg	Modulation of immune cell signalling and function by functionalized particles	Pharmacology of Natural Products and Clinical Pharmacology	2011 (for 2010)
Müller, Adrienne	Molecular mechanisms underlying the switch of mature retinal ganglion cells to a regenerative state after inflammatory stimulation	Neurology	2009
Chevillotte, Meike	Novel approaches for optimisation of human cytomegalovirus antiviral therapy based on viral resistance profiles	Virology	2009
Sander, Sandrine	Deregulated expression of microRNAs - a critical pathogenic mechanism in MYC-induced lymphoma	Physiological Chemistry	2008
Lebedev, Anton	Functional studies of Cockayne syndrome protein B in RNA polymerase I transcription	Dermatology	2008

Student Award

Nominate a student!
Nomination packets should consist of the following items:

A nomination letter by the supervisor briefly describing why this student was chosen for nomination (maximum 2 pages)

A CV of the candidate including congress participations and publications

Nominees have to be in their final year of doctoral enrollment during the award year.

Nominations are to be submitted to the Coordination Office by September, 1st, 2019 via e-mail. The nominations will be evaluated by the Board of Directors and the PhD Committee.

The award will be presented at the graduation ceremony during the Graduate School’s Fall Meeting on October 09th, 2019.