iIMMUNE_ACS - News and Dates

Attention - The lecture by Prof. Marco Prinz (UK Freiburg) in our seminar series “Hot Topics in Immunomedicine” unfortunately had to be postponed to February 13, 2025 4pm! New venue: Kleiner Hörsaal MedizinFlyerVeranstaltungslink

On October 23, our annual retreat took place in Herzogenaurach. The ACS presented the status of their projects and our guest speaker Prof. Eskofier spoke about the applications of A.I. in future healthcare. A very wide-ranging exchange took place that afternoon in an almost complete circle!! Programm  (28.10.24)

The BMBF has announced new ACS funding. Other university medical institutions in Germany can now apply and submit an initial project outline by mid-November. This is of course very motivating for us - we are excited to see which new locations and Advanced Clinician Scientists we will soon be able to welcome to the ACS circle! ACSP call-up (27.09.2024)

We warmly welcome our two new ACS, Dr. Christina Bergmann (specialist in rheumatology) and Dr. Peter Dietrich (specialist in internal medicine and gastroenterology)! Both have presented impressive scientific achievements in the selection process, and the research projects presented also fit perfectly into our program. Dr. Bergmann is researching immune-related tissue reactions in autoimmune diseases of the connective tissue using the example of systemic sclerosis. Dr. Dietrich is investigating how crosstalk between neuropeptide Y and receptor promotes the evasion of the immune system and metastatic colonization of the liver by disseminated cancer cells. Welcome to the team, we are happy about the reinforcement! (02.09.2024)

Last Friday, Prof. Pretorius (Stellenbosch University, South Africa) gave an impressive lecture in our “Hot Topics in Immunomedicine” seminar series on so-called microclots (amyloid-fibrinogen aggregates), which occur not only in long/post COVID and CFS/ME, but also in other inflammatory diseases. Almost 70 interested people joined the webinar from outside Erlangen and even Germany. Many thanks to Prof. Pretorius for the exciting presentation! Here is the link to the recording. (30.07.2024)

Last week, Laura Krumm was awarded the well-deserved title of Dr. rer. nat. after an impressive defense. In her doctoral thesis “Understanding disease modulators of SPG11-linked hereditary spastic paraplegia”, she characterized the inflammatory signatures in patients with mutations in the SPG11 gene that cause the motor neuron disease HSP (hereditary spastic paraplegia). In doing so, she also significantly advanced the ACS project of her scientific supervisor PD Dr. Martin Regensburger. Congratulations, Laura, and good luck in your future endeavors! (30.07.2024)

We are excited that Prof. Resia Pretorius (Head of the Department of Physiological Sciences, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) will give a lecture in our seminar series "Hot Topics in Immunomedicine". She will talk about the latest findings regarding microclots and platelet pathologies in Long/Post-COVID and ME/CFS. more
The lecture will be broadcast on Zoom - here is the event link and our flyer. (08.07.2024)

Prof. Katharina Brandl (Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, UC San Diego and member of the Advisory Board of iIMMUNE_ACS) will give a talk on "Integrating AI in Academia: Enhancing Teaching and Learning for Faculty and Students" on Friday, July 19. Afterwards, she will offer our ACS the opportunity to meet and talk to her in person - thank you very much in advance! (01.07.2024)

This year, around 30 female doctors and medical students from the higher semesters came to our Female Clinician Scientist Day to find out more about a career as a clinician scientist and funding opportunities at the site. The questions from the audience following the presentations and during the panel discussion showed once again that interest in working at the interface between medicine and research is very high! Many thanks to the speakers and the discussion panel! (28.6.2024)

Together with the Clinician Scientist Program of the IZKF, we cordially invite all female physicians interested in research as well as female doctoral candidates and students of the higher semesters of the Faculty of Medicine to the 2nd Female Clinician Scientist Day on June 27, 2024 at 3:30 pm in the seminar rooms of the new CESAR/TRC IV research building!

Childcare will be provided. If you have a need, please make sure to notify us by June 7 via email to iimmune.acs@uk-erlangen.de

We hope to welcome a large audience! Program(22.05.2024)

On May 2-3, 2024, the ACS of all BMBF-funded locations met in Würzburg to get to know each other and exchange scientific ideas. Under the moderation of Dr. Matthias Scholz, measures for the design of an ACS exchange platform as well as common goals were discussed and working groups formed. The lively discussions in the beautiful surroundings of Himmelspforten Monastery will be remembered fondly and make us look forward to the next network meeting in 2025! Program(07.05.2024)

The call for applications for the 2024-2030 funding round in our Advanced Clinician Scientist Program has started! We are looking for new ACS Fellows and look forward to receiving applications from researching medical specialists! Further information can be found here. (09.02.2024)

On January 31, our ACS Dr. Leppkes spoke at the DZI Q&A session on the topic of "Autoimmunity in ulcerative cholitis" and then answered the many questions from patients, relatives and interested parties in detail. You can find the recording here on the DZI YouTube channel. (02.02.2024)

"Caught in the NET - White blood cells at the interface between inflammation and thrombosis" was the title of the inaugural lecture by our ACS Fellow Dr. Moritz Leppkes. He vividly explained the similarities between neutrophil granulocytes and Spiderman in the fight against disruptive intruders, and how exploding cola bottles come into play. But joking aside - the research performance shown was outstanding and nothing should stand in the way of the PD now! (13.12.2023)