Seed grant for first-time professors.
Rise up! recipients
The Rise up! programme has been supporting newly appointed W2 professors at German universities, giving them the financial leeway to advance particularly creative and daring research programmes.
The first selection rounds have shown what a great response the new funding programme is receiving from the scientific community and what potential the selected scientists and their proposed research programmes have.
Who has successfully applied for the Rise up! programme?
Listed below are grantees with the institutions at which they were conducting research upon submitting their applications.
2024
- Christoph Ernst – University of Cologne
"Sterol-associated cell autonomous immunity“ - Franziska Faber – University of Würzburg
“Towards a mechanistic understanding of individual cell fate decisions shaping virulence in Clostridioides difficile” - Özgün Gökce – University Hospital Bonn
“Myelin, lipid metabolism, and immunity: Tracing the pathways to neurological aging and Alzheimer’s” - Frederik Graw – Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
"RETENTION - Revealing T cell turnover and trafficking dynamics by single cellbased mathematical modelling“ - Benesh Joseph – Freie Universität Berlin
"Conformational kinetics and thermodynamics of ATP-binding cassette transporters and in-cell observation of outer membrane protein folding in Gram-negative bacteria“ - Daniela Kramer – Universitätsmedizin Mainz
“Epigenetic imprinting of T-cells: How H2A variants direct immune cell function in health and disease” - Johannes Mayer – Universitätsmedizin Mainz
“The dermal Neuro-Immune Axis controls beneficial and detrimental type 2 immune responses” - Anne Schütz – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
"Charting allosteric inhibition in the p97 enzyme by an NMR-data driven approach“ - Eva-Christina Schulte – University Hospital Bonn
“The dynamics of lipid quantitative Trait Loci - From brain to blood and across the lifespan” - Suayb Üstün – Ruhr University Bochum
"Manipulation of protein translation as a virulence strategy of pathogenic bacteria“
2023
- Lena Burbulla – Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU)
"Of mice and men: Decoding species-specific differences of dopamine neuron vulnerability to target neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease“ - Anne-Kathrin Classen – Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg
"Metabolic adaptation to rapid proliferation in tissue repair and regeneration“ - Florian Fröhlich – Osnabrück University
"Structural and functional characterization of ceramide synthase complexes“ - Carla Schmidt – Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
"Establishing a protein-lipid cross-linking workflow for studying protein-lipid interactions in natural membranes“ - Florian Schmidt – University Hospital Bonn
"Molecular mechanisms of antiviral NLRP1 responses“ - Christoph Stein-Thöringer, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Tübingen
"Oncomicrobiomics in colorectal cancer“ - Marcel Wiermer – Freie Universität Berlin
"Transport-independent nuclear pore complex functions in plant defense gene regulation“