Project Details
Projekt
Central administration, tissue banking, and clinical translation.
Applicant
Professor Dr. Lorenz C. Hofbauer
Subject Area
Hematology, Oncology
Term
from 2014 to 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 179902948
In the first funding period, we have established a tissue microarray with over 400 well-defined prostate cancer samples and performed comprehensive analyses for candidate genes identified in the basic projects (e.g. Wnt5a, Dkk-1). Moreover, a total of four clinicians, Catrin List (Bornhäuser/Wobus, project 1), Tilman Rachner (Hofbauer/Füssel, project 3), Thorsten Heilmann (Trauzold/Kalthoff, project 4 and the Schem group), and Sabrina Kraus (Schütze/Jakob, project 5 and Beilhack, project 9) were funded as clinician-scientists and have produced significant results within the SKELMET research program. One of them (Tilman Rachner) will submit a project proposal as a principal investigator for the second funding period, and two of them (Sabrina Kraus, Thorsten Heilmann) have catalyzed research projects that led to the inclusion of two new PIs, Christian Schem (project 4) and Andreas Beilhack (project 9) in this grant application. For the second funding period, we will further utilize the infrastructure of molecular imaging and tissue banking and continue to train PhD students and postdocs through exchange grants between the four sites and at the labs of international collaborators. In addition, clinical translation will be further emphasized by allocating clinician-scientist positions to the projects in Dresden, Kiel and Würzburg. In addition, we intend to organize coaching and mentoring sessions and scientific retreats, support exchange activities, including the SKELMET homepage (www.skelmet.de), and specifically promote young and female scientists in the upcoming funding period.
DFG Programme
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