Below you can find a list of projects which are available for the Biology Track at the BSRT for the current call for application. Please read the abstracts carefully and select in the application form your three favourite projects. Here you can download a PDF document with the project abstracts.

* Project is funded through third party. 

Cardiovascular system

• Project 1: Stem cell senescence and cardiovascular regeneration
  Prof. Kurtz (first supervisor), Prof. Stamm (second supervisor)

Immune system

• Project 2: Pattern of cellular immunity involved into the pathogenesis of BK virus infection in kidney transplant patients
  Prof. Reinke (first supervisor), Prof. Volk (second supervisor)
• Project 3: Intrinsic regulation of Th1-mediated chronic immune responsesy
  
  Prof. Radbruch (first supervisor), Prof. Burmester (second supervisor), Dr. Chang (mentor)
• Project 4: Regeneration of protective plasma cell memory after immunoablative therapy in NZB/W mice used as model of systemic lupus erythematosus
  Prof. Radbruch (first supervisor), Prof. Burmester (second supervisor), Prof. Hiepe (mentor)
• Project 5: Epigenetic imprinting by DNA demethylation - T lymphocyte effector/memory cell differentiation as a model system
  Prof. Thiel (first supervisor), Prof. Radbruch (first supervisor), Dr. Dong (mentor)
• Project 6: Characterisation of pathogenic memory T and B cells prior to and after transplantation
  Prof. Volk (first supervisor), Prof. Radbruch (second supervisor), Prof. Sawitzki (mentor)
• Project 7: Generation and characterisation of maturation-resistant tolerogenic dendritic cells for adoptive cell therapies
  Prof. Volk (first supervisor), Prof. Reinke (second supervisor)
• Project 8: In vitro generation of human T lymphocytes – from fetal thymic organ cultures (FTOC) to defined 3D culture systems
  Prof. Thiel (first supervisor), Prof. Lendlein (second supervisor), Prof. Thiel (mentor)
  
  Project 25: Investigation of novel immunization strategies with intracellular receptors ligands encapsulated in biodegradable micropheres for the development of potent vaccines
  Prof. Thiel (first supervisor), Prof. Lendlein (second supervisor), Dr. Frentsch (mentor)
• Project 26: Analysis of immunogencity and the immunomodulatory features of human endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) derived endothelial cells in vitro
  Dr. Seifert (first supervisor), Prof. Volk (second supervisor), Dr. Schmidt-Lucke (mentor)

Musculoskeletal system

• Project 9: The impact of the inflammatory fracture hematoma on mesenchymal stem cell function and fracture healing
  Prof. Buttgereit (first supervisor), Prof. Duda (second supervisor), Dr. Kolar (mentor)
• Project 10: Mechanisms of improved functional recovery after skeletal muscle trauma through the transplantation of mesenchymal stem cells: Investigation of the paracrine factors of MSC and the local environment
  Prof. Duda (first supervisor), Prof. Perka (second supervisor), Dr. Winkler (mentor)
• Project 11: Preventing ectopic bone formation in a model of Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP)
  Prof. Seemann (first supervisor), Prof. Schomburg (second supervisor)
• Project 12: Analysis of genetic mutations in the BMP signaling pathway and translation of BMP variants into therapeutic applications
  Prof. Seemann (first supervisor), Prof. Mundlos (second supervisor)

• Prof. Schomburg (first supervisor), Prof. Seemann (second supervisor), Dr. Renko (mentor)
• Project 14: BMP induced migration of bone precursor cells – an in vitro and in vivo study
  Prof. Knaus (first supervisor), Prof. Lauster (second supervisor)
• Project 15: BMP regulated miRNA expression in human mesenchymal stem cells
  Prof. Knaus (first supervisor), Prof. Mundlos (second supervisor)

• *Project 16: Hox-Genes Regulate Bone Formation
  Prof. Mundlos (first supervisor), Prof. Knaus (secon supervisor)

• Prof. Mundlos (first supervisor), Prof. Knaus (second supervisor), Dr. Hecht (mentor)

Stem cell research

• Project 18: Derivation of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells from rat and development of novel therapeutic strategies
  Prof. Bader (first supervisor), Dr. Seifert (second supervisor), Dr. Alenina (mentor)