GRK 791:  Neural Developmental and Degenerative Processes: Basic Research and Clinical Implications

• Subject Area: Neurosciences
• Term: from 2002 to 2008
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 273467

The research training group "Neural Developmental and Degenerative Processes: Basic Research and Clinical Implications" specifically combines basic and clinical aspects of the Neurosciences. Students are offered a well-structured platform of courses, seminars and labwork for acquiring theoretical and practical knowledge in functions and dysfunctions of the brain. In addition to obtaining their Ph.D., the students will be trained in molecular, cellular, developmental and systems aspects of Neuroscience, the link between genes and learning, and the basis for neurological disease, including depression and Alzheimer¿s disease. The college will also offer training in the generation and analysis of genetically altered mice to study synaptic plasticity, learning and neurological disease. The laboratories participating in this program are at different institutes of the University of Heidelberg, including the ZMBH, University Hospital for Neurology in Heidelberg and Mannheim, Interdisciplinary Center for Neuroscience (IZN), and the Zentralinstitut for Mental Health Mannheim, as well as the DKFZ and the Max-Planck Institute for Medical Research. Notably, the program for the research training group is the only established link between Heidelberg/Mannheim labs working in basic and clinical neuroscience.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Spokesperson: Professorin Dr. Hannah Monyer
• Participating Researchers: Professor Dr. Hilmar Bading; Professor Dr. Dusan Bartsch; Dr. Francesca Ciccolini; Professor Dr. Andreas Draguhn; Professor Dr. Rainer Friedrich; Professor Dr. Tobias Hartmann; Professor Dr. Fritz A. Henn; Dr. Harald Hutter; Professor Dr. Ulrich Misgeld; Professor Christof Niehrs, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Stefan Offermanns; Professorin Dr. Gabriele Elisabeth Pollerberg; Professorin Dr. Gudrun Rappold; Dr. Andrei Rozov; Professor Dr. Markus Schwaninger; Professor Dr. Günther Schütz (†); Professor Dr. Peter H. Seeburg (†); Professor Dr. Klaus Unsicker; Professor Dr. William Wisden; Professor Dr. Veit Witzemann