Medical Faculty

Coordinated Programs

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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: important scientific problems of our time can only be solved through interdisciplinary cooperation between scientists in networks. Here we present you the programs coordinated by us: 

Coordinated Programs

Collaborative Research Centers:

  • SFB 1506 – Aging at Interfaces (Speaker Prof. Dr. H. Geiger, Institute of Molecular Medicine)
  • SFB 1279 – Exploiting the Human Peptidome for Novel Antimicrobial and Anticancer Agents (Speaker Prof. Dr. F. Kirchhoff, Institute of Molecular Virology)
  • SFB 1149 – Danger Response, Disturbance Factors and Regenerative Potential after Acute Trauma (Speaker Prof. Dr. F. Gebhard, Department of Orthopedic Trauma, Hand, Plastic and Reconstruction Surgery)

Research Training Group:

  • RTG 3175 – Organoid-based Modelling of Solid Tumors (OrgBOOST) (Speaker Prof. Dr. A. Kleger, Institute of Molecular Oncology and Stem Cell Biology)

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR)

  • Research Building Multidimensional Trauma Sciences (MTW) (Funding according to article 91b GG; Speaker: Prof. Dr. M. Huber-Lang, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Trauma Immunology)
  • NCT SouthWest, Site of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT), Cooperation between Comprehensive Cancer Center Tübingen-Stuttgart and Comprehensive Cancer Center Ulm (Speaker: Prof. Dr. L. Zender, Department of Internal Medicine VIII, Tübingen University Hospital)
  • Interdisciplinary Scientific Center for Fertility Preservation (FePro-​Ulm) (Funded under the BMFTR program for interdisciplinary young academics centers for reproductive health; Speakers: Prof. Dr. K. Hancke, PD Dr. Dr. K. Bundschu, Department of Gynecology and Obestetrics)

Innovation Fund of the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) – Health Services Research

European Research Council (ERC)

  • ERC Advanced Grant: Traitor-viruses - Traitor-virus-guided discovery of antiviral factors (Grantee: Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchhoff, Institute of Molecular Virology)
  • ERC Consolidator Grant: CrossPeriBrain - Altered brain-periphery crosstalk as a key pathomechanism for high-risk phenotypes in humans (Grantee: Prof. Dr. Martin Heni, Department of Internal Medicine I)

Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme 

  • TICANDAC - Training to Improve Child Abuse and Neglect Diagnostic and Administrative Coding (Speaker: Prof. Dr. Andreas Jud, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy); successfully concluded on February 28, 2025.

Joint Programming Initiatives

  • EXPAND-RED - Exploring the impact of somatic expansion rates on quantitative progression marker candidates (Voice) in early stages of repeat expansion disorders (Speaker: Prof. Dr. B. Landwehrmeyer, Department of Neurology)
  • Hypothalamic mechanisms of High-Calorie intervention in ALS (HiCALS) (Speaker: Prof. Dr. F. Roselli, Department of Neurology)

Graduate School:

  • International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine Ulm (Board of Directors: Prof. Dr. B. Knöll [Chairman, Institute of Neurobiochemistry], Prof. Dr. M. Frick [Vice-Chairman, Institute of General Physiology], Prof. Dr. D. Rautenbach [Vice-President Career of Ulm University], PD Dr. M. Vujić Spasić [Vice-Chairman, Institute of Comparative Molecular Endocrinology]); Funded by the Excellence Initiative of the German Federal and State Governments until October 31, 2019; continued funding by the State of Baden-Württemberg and the Medical Faculty.

Research Center in Public-Private Partnership:

  • Boehringer Ingelheim Ulm University BioCenter (BIU). Topics: neuropsychiatric, cardio metabolic and lung diseases as well as immunmodulatory aspects (Speaker BIU 2.0: Prof. Dr. K.-M. Debatin; Speaker BIU 3.0: Prof. Dr. P. Fischer-Posovszky, Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine)

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

Forschungskolleg funded by the Else Kröner-Fresenius-Stiftung:

  • Else Kröner-Forschungskolleg: Entwicklung und Etablierung prädiktiver Modelle zur Realisierung von personalisierter Tumortherapie (Speaker: Prof. Dr. A. Kleger, Prof. Dr. T. Seufferlein, Department of Internal Medicine I)

Initiative funded by Die Techniker Health Insurance Fund:

  • Join the Healthy Boat - program for health promotion in kindergartens and primary schools (Speaker: apl. Prof. Dr. S. Kobel, ZNL TransferZentrum für Neurowissenschaften und Lernen)

Research Center funded by the Charcot Foundation:

Research Network funded by the CHDI Foundation:

German Centers for Health Research:

Furthermore, PD Dr. Stefanie Lanzinger (Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry) and Prof. Martin Heni (Department of Internal Medicine I) are project partners in the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and Prof. Ole Ammerpohl (Institute of Human Genetics) is Principal Investigator in the German Center for Lung Research (DZL).