Research Area I – The Junior Research Groups (JRG)

Reasearch Area I develops a series of thematically defined Junior Research Groups (JRG) that are led by newly appointed young professors either on the W1 or W2 levels. The JRG represent thematic areas that have reached central importance for the clus­ter but do not yet have the width to give rise to a full network as described in Research Areas F-H.  By appointing young professors, the cluster wants to nurture an exceptional scientific development that gives rise to new themes which are poised to generate a large collaboratorship throughout the cluster and which are embedded in the five Research Areas A-E.

Epithelial Barrier Functions Leader: Andre Franke

Innate Immunity Leader: Guntram Grassl

Genetic Susceptibility of Granulomatous Diseases Leader: formerly Sylvia Hoffman (in replacement)

Neuroinflammation Leader: Gregor Kuhlenbäumer

Epithelial Protease Inhibitors Leader: Karina Reiß

Microbe Host Interactions Leader: Jan Rupp

Inflammation Associated Carcinogenesis Leader: Susanne Sebens

Structural Biology of Autoimmunity Leader: Karsten Seeger

Molecular Nutrition Leader: Anika Wagner

Scientists:

Norbert Arnold, Jan Born, Monika Brüggemann, Renate Burger, Günther  Deuschl, Frank Döring, Stefan Ehlers, Andre Franke, Karoline Gaede, Frank   Gieseler, Martin Gramatzki, Joachim Grötzinger, Jochen Hampe, Jürgen Harder, Janka   Held-Feindt, Thomas Herdegen, Rolf Hilgenfeld, Rolf Horstmann, Dieter Kabelitz, Holger Kalthoff, Wolfram Klapper, Michael Kneba, Tanja    Kühbacher, Gregor Kuhlenbäumer, Peter  Lamprecht, Ralph Lucius, Uwe      Mamat, Manfred James  Müller, Almut  Nebel, Achim Peters, Thomas Peters, Norbert Reiling, Karina Reiß, Stefan Rose-John, Philip Rosenstiel, Jan Rupp, Heiner Schäfer, Stefan Schreiber, Jürgen Schrezenmeir, Jens-Michael Schröder, Manfred Schürmann, Stefan Schütze, Thomas Schwarz, Susanne Sebens, Kensuke Shima, Reiner  Siebert, Werner Solbach, Andreas Till, Thomas Valerius, Anika  Wagner, Vicki Wätzig, Siegfried Wolffram, Barbara Wollenberg

Selected publications