Professor Dr. Jan Münch

Address Universitätsklinikum Ulm
Institut für Molekulare Virologie
Meyerhofstraße 1
89081 Ulm

Projects

As Applicant
- Current projects
  - De Novo Design of Envelope-Targeting Antiviral Peptide Drugs (Research Grants)
- Completed projects
  - Mechanism and Structural Basis of SEVI-Mediated Enhancement of HIV Infection (Research Grants)
  - Role of the natural CXCR4 antagonist ALB408-423 in health and disease (Research Grants)
  - Targeting CXCR4 to suppress virus-induced activation of plasmacytoid dendritic cells (Research Grants)
  - Development of a new class of radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosis and therapy of CXCR4-expressing malignancies based on the endogenous CXCR4 antagonist EPI-X4 (Research Grants)
  - SARS-CoV-2 induced damage of the alveolar epithelium in the lung and its inhibition by α1-antitrypsin. (Research Grants)
  - Endocrine in vitro models to study pathophysiology and diabetes in SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 (Research Grants)
As Participating Researcher
- Completed projects
  - Crossing Barriers with bio-based Therapeutics (Research Grants)
As Project Head
- Current projects
  - Identification and characterization of antimicrobial peptides from major pathogen entry and replication sites (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Amyloid biology of bioinspired peptides - from basic research to preclinical development (Collaborative Research Centres)
  - Characterization and optimization of the CXCR4 antagonist EPI-X4 (Collaborative Research Centres)