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Prof. Malte Gather Wins ERC Advanced Grant for His Work on Overcoming the Fundamental Dispersion Limit of Optical Interference

Alexander von Humboldt Professor at the University of Cologne receives funding from the European Research Council (ERC) – 2.5 million euros over five years – for his work on overcoming the fundamental dispersion limit of optical interference.

News from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute

How to democratize Artifical Intelligence?

The effort to expand access and usage of Large Language Models (LLMs) was the main topic during the first KISZ-Talk of the KI-Servicezentrum Berlin-Brandenburg (KISZ-BB)—the AI Service Center at the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam.

News from Campus OWL

Developing Sustainable Design of AI Components and Preserving Human Self-Determination

Around 90 researchers are involved in the SAIL research network, a four-year joint project, receiving up to 14.8 million euros of funding from the North Rhine-Westphalia state government. SAIL is an excellent example of fruitful, successful collaboration within Campus OWL. It will explore how AI systems could operate in a sustainable, transparent, secure, resource-efficient way over a long product life cycle.

News from Heidelberg University

Funding available for study at Heidelberg University

Heidelberg Alumni U.S. (HAUS) is pleased to invite applications for the 2023-24 HAUS Scholarships, the deadline is June 15, 2023. The stipends are available to qualified students from a United States university planning to study at Heidelberg University.

News from the University of Freiburg

Heisenberg Professorship for Susana Minguet García

The University of Freiburg biologist conducts cancer research on immunotherapies using T cells.

News from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute

HPI-MIT “Designing for Sustainability Program” Workshop

About 35 researchers from the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) and the Morningside Academy for Design (MAD) at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) celebrated the launch of the joint research program “Designing for Sustainability” at a workshop on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA (USA) on March 27 and 28.

Research at University of Cologne

University of Cologne Researchers Discover a Way to Fight the Aging Process and Cancer Development

Damage in the human genome can be repaired. But this works better in germ cells, sperm and eggs, than in normal body cells. Responsible for this is the DREAM protein complex, which prevents the activation of all available repair mechanisms. A research team at the University of Cologne has now shown that normal body cells can also be repaired better once this complex has been deactivated. In the long run, the scientists hope to develop better therapies to prevent cancer and aging-associated diseases. They describe their results in ‘Nature Structural & Molecular Biology’.