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ERC Synergy Grant for University of Cologne’s Professor Björn Schumacher: Bats as a Guide to Extend Healthspan

The European Research Council (ERC) is funding the project ‘BATPROTECT’ with 11.9 million euros over a period of six years.

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Regulating Emotions Under Stress

How do men and women regulate their emotions under stress? A new study in cognitive psychology that makes use of the socially evaluated cold-pressor test has answered this question.

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University of Cologne Researchers Discover a Key Mechanism That Controls Human Heart Development

Writing in ‘Science Advances’ researchers of the University of Cologne describe a key mechanism that controls the decision-making process that allows human embryonic stem cells to make the heart. These discoveries enable better insights into how the human heart forms in an embryo and what can go wrong during heart formation, causing cardiac disease or, in the worst case, embryo termination.

News from the Hasso-Plattner-Institute (HPI)

Health economist Ariel Dora Stern joins HPI with Humboldt Professorship

International gain for the joint Digital Engineering Faculty of HPI and University of Potsdam: The renowned scientist Prof. Dr. Ariel Dora Stern, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, joins the Digital Health Cluster at the Hasso Plattner Institute with a Humboldt Professorship.

News from the University of Cologne

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 University of Freiburg

Heisenberg Professorship for Susana Minguet García

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

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’.