Participating Group Leaders
This year group leaders from the following research areas participate in the selection round:
- Cancer and Immunology
- Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases
- Medical Systems Biology and Computational Biology
- Neurobiology
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
Please scroll down for more information about each group leader. For MDC-groups see also the new Research report.
Cancer and Immunology

Walter Birchmeier
Signal Transduction, Invasion and Metastasis of Epithelial Cells

Thomas Blankenstein
Molecular Immunology and Gene Therapy

Achim Leutz
Cell Differentiation and Tumorigenesis

Martin Lipp
Molecular Tumor Genetics and Immunogenetics

Klaus Rajewsky

Oliver Rocks
Rho GTPase Signaling in Space and Time

Claus Scheidereit
Signal Transduction in Tumor Cells

Clemens Schmitt
Cancer Genetics and Cellular Stress Responses
Cardiovascular & Metabolic Diseases

Michael Bader
Molecular Biology of Peptide Hormones

Michael Gotthardt
Neuromuscular and Cardiovascular Cell Biology

Annette Grüters
Experimental Paediatric Endocrinology

Norbert Hübner
Experimental Genetics of Cardiovascular Diseases

Zsuzsanna Izsvak

Young-Ae Lee

Friedrich C. Luft
Genetics, Nephrology, Hypertension, and Vascular Injury

Ferdinand le Noble
Angiogenesis and Cardiovascular Pathology

Daniela Panakova
Electrochemical signaling in development and disease

Matthew Poy
MicroRNA and Molecular Mechanisms of Metabolic Diseases
Project 1: Regulatory Role of microRNAs in the Hypothalamus

Salim Seyfried
Epithelial Polarity and Zebrafish Genetics

Francesca Spagnoli
Molecular & Cellular Basis of Embryonic Development

Silke Sperling

Ludwig Thierfelder
Cardiovascular Molecular Genetics

Mathias Treier
Genetics of metabolic and reproductive disorders

Thomas Willnow
Molecular Cardiovascular Research
Medical Systems Biology and Computational Biology

Miguel Andrade
Computational Biology and Data Mining
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Alexander Loewer
Signaling Dynamics in Single Cells

Nikolaus Rajewsky
Systems Biology of Gene Regulatory Elements

Matthias Selbach
Cell Signalling and Mass Spectrometry

Baris Tursun
Gene regulation and cell fate decision in C. elegans
Neurobiology

Carmen Birchmeier
Developmental Biology / Signal Transduction

Volker Haucke
Molecular Pharmacology and Cell Biology

Helmut Kettenmann

Gary Lewin
Molecular Physiology of Somatic Sensation

Fritz Rathjen

Victor Tarabykin
Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

Oliver Daumke
Structure and Membrane Interaction of G-Proteins

Udo Heinemann

