where cancer and infection converge - gepris

GRK 1141: Signal transduction: where cancer and infection converge
Subject Area
Funding
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Fundamental Biological and Medical Research
Funded from 2005 to 2009
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Project Description
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 Connection
Applying institution:
International Research Training Groups
France
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Sanderring 2
97070 Würzburg
Foreign institution:
Université Nice Sophia Antipolis
28, Avenue Valrose
06108 Nice Cedex 2
Frankreich
Spokesperson:
Professor Dr. Ulf Rüdiger Rapp
Max-Planck-Institut für Herz- und Lungenforschung
Forschergruppe Molekulare Mechanismen von
Lungentumoren
Parkstraße 1
61231 Bad Nauheim
Telephone: +49 6032 705313
E-Mail: ulf.rapp mpi-bn.mpg.de
Professor Dr. Roland Benz; Professor Dr. Klaus Brehm;
Dr. Joachim Fensterle; Dr. Ivaylo Gentschev; Professor Dr.
Werner Goebel; Professor Dr. Jörg Hinrich Hacker;
Professor Dr. Aladar Szalay; Dr. Tobias Ölschläger
Dr. Fabienne Anjuère; Dr. Patrice Boquet; Dr. Cécil
Czerkinsky; Professor Dr. Grégoire Lauvau; Professor Dr.
Emmanuel Lemichez
Participating scientist:
Cooperation partner:
DFG programme contact:
Dorette Breitkreuz
GEPRIS is a project of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Contact GEPRIS at http://www.dfg.de/gepris
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