Project Details
Projekt
GRK 1141: Signal transduction: where cancer and infection converge
Subject Area
Basic Research in Biology and Medicine
Term
from 2005 to 2009
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 784588
Signal transduction mechanisms in eukaryotic cells are one of the key targets for pathogenic action of bacteria as well as oncogenic transformation. Often the same molecules, such as Raf , or pathways, such as those leading to apoptosis, play a decisive role in both classes of diseases. The Research Training Group, bringing together some of the best researchers in microbiology and cancer research in Germany and France, will address two major goals:-- Tear down the segregation between the fields of oncology and infection, in order to create synergies between the two fields for the development of novel approaches to combat infection and cancer alike.-- Educate an elite group of students in the notion that cancer and infection share many common principles of pathophysiology, provide those students with a comprehensive scientific and technological view of both fields and enable them to create completely new lines of research in an international spirit.It is expected that both, the proposed research and the group of young scientists emerging from it, will be the nucleus for the development of urgently needed new therapeutic weapons against cancer and infection.
DFG Programme
International Research Training Groups
International Connection
France
Applicant Institution
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
IRTG-Partner Institution
Université Côte d'Azur
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Ulf Rüdiger Rapp
