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“I learned about the funding programme for postdocs at the CRC’s retreat and saw many opportunities for cooperation in the network – that’s how the idea for my project was born,” says Samriti Sharma. She uses the funding from her start-up project to study how immune cells (neutrophils and macrophages) interact in defense against bacterial infection, and how bacteria (Yersinia pseudotuberculosis) manage to survive this. (May 2022)© WWU/Erk Wibberg In his pilot project, Mathis Richter uses multiplex imaging to study how and where certain immune cells (neutrophils) develop in the bone marrow and how this process changes during inflammation. “It was a cool experience for me to carefully plan what I wanted to do in the project and with what goals – I noticed how the idea came to maturity while I was writing the proposal,” he says. (May 2022)© WWU/Erk Wibberg We got to know each other better during our research network’s first retreat in October 2021.© WWU/Ann-Christin Dietrich At the network retreat, the individual project teams also presented their latest results and discussed current research questions and ideas.© WWU/Doris Niederhoff Our doctoral students, postdoctoral researchers and the coordination team of our Integrated Research Training Group came together for the first time in the Corona summer of 2021.© WWU/Erk Wibberg
Our Collaborative Research Centre fosters an interdisciplinary research culture early in the scientific career because we need both clinical and scientific perspectives to make significant progress in our research field. Our network engages in the training of a new generation of scientists at the interface between disciplines, e.g. between natural sciences (interdisciplinary scientists) and between natural sciences and clinical medicine (clinician scientists). Our various career modules aim to enrich traditional career paths for natural scientists and physicians.