Plus 3 recipients.
The key successes of our Plus 3 programme: Approximately 80% of recipients whose funding started between 2010 and 2018, have obtained professorships, around 40 % of all recipients come from abroad. Despite the fact that women represent only about 30 % of the applicants, they comprise some 40 % of Plus 3 recipients. In this way, the Plus 3 programme serves as a springboard during one of the most decisive career phases of young scientists.
Christian Hackenberger, the first Plus 3 grantee, is now a W3 professor at the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) and at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. For his outstanding achievements, he was subsequently awarded, among other things, the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Who has successfully applied for the Plus 3 programme?
Listed below are grantees with the institutions at which they were conducting research upon submitting their applications.
2021
- Dr Chuanjie Loh – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
"Harnessing halogen bonding and pi-interactions to advance carbohydrate chemistry"
2020
- Dr Mafalda Escobar-Henriques – University of Cologne
"Surveillance mechanisms of cellular homeostasis and stress resistance by a novel form of ubiquitin" - Dr Mirko Völkers – University Hospital Heidelberg
"Gene expression control by RNA-binding proteins during myocardial remodelling" - Dr Philipp Heretsch – Freie Universität Berlin
"Technology-driven natural product synthesis"
2019
- Dr Benedikt Beckmann – Humboldt University Berlin
"Cross-species RNA-protein complexes in infection"
2018
- Dr Stephanie Kath-Schorr – University of Bonn
"Chemical tools for studying functional RNAs" - Dr Christian Merten – University of Bochum
"Stereochemical communication as probe for halogen bonding interactions"
2017
- Dr Andrey Antonchick – Technical University Dortmund
"Direct oxidative coupling for sustainable chemistry" - Dr Anne-Kathrin Classen – University of Freiburg
"Spatial patterning of stress responses in tissue damage, chronic wounds, and cancer" - Dr Katrin Domke – Max Planck Institute of Polymer Research, Mainz
"Unravelling the redox behaviour of individual azurin metalloproteins with EC-TERS" - Dr André Scheffel – Max Planck Institute of Molecular Plant Physiology, Potsdam
"Molecular mechanisms of biomineralization in coccolithophores" - Dr Amar Sharma – Hannover Medical School
"Harnessing the potential of direct hepatic reprogramming for treatment of liver diseases"
2016
- Prof. Christian Behrends – University of Frankfurt
"Molecular dissection of the crosstalk between autophagy and secretion" - Prof. Julia von Blume – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried
"Cargo sorting during protein secretion"
2015
- Prof. Elsa Sanchez Garcia – Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr
"Computational design of molecules with therapeutic potential" - Dr Naoko Mizuno – Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Martinsried
"Structural studies on protein assemblies by cryo-EM: integrin-based focal adhesion"
2010–2014
- Prof. Christian Hackenberger – Freie Universität Berlin
"Chemo-selektive Staudinger-Reaktionen für die Modifizierung von Peptiden und Proteinen" - Prof. Laura Hartmann – Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam
"Ein neuer Baukasten für biofunktionale Makromoleküle und ihre Anwendungen in der Biomedizin" - Prof. Marco Idzko – University Medical Center Freiburg
"Purinergic receptor-signalling as new therapeutic targets in asthma and COPD?" - Prof. Peter Kovacs – Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF), University of Leipzig
"Funktionelle Genetik der Fettverteilung" - Prof. Alexis Maizel – University of Heidelberg
"Elucidating the cellular basis of morphogenetic plasticity in plants" - Prof. Andriy Mokhir – University of Heidelberg
"A photochemical autocatalytic reaction for amplified detection of ribonucleic acids in live cells" - Prof. Christine Radtke – Hannover Medical School
"Intravenous transplantation of adipose-derived stromal cells to enhance peripheral nerve regeneration" - Prof. Krishnaraj Rajalingam – University of Frankfurt
"Role of IAP-IAP complexes (IAPosomes)" - Prof. Daniel Schubert – University of Düsseldorf
"Identification of the mechanisms and factors mediating the epigenetic control of cell fate in plants"