Networks and Infrastructure

• Center for Commemorative Culture
• Department for Immunomedicine
• Department for Interdisciplinary and Multiscalar Area Studies - DIMAS

Center for Immunomedicine in Transplantation and Oncology (CITO)

With Regensburg’s Center for Immunomedicine in Transplantation and Oncology (CITO), excellent (infra-)structures will be created for the conduction of an outstanding research program in the field of immunomedicine. Overcoming working group boundaries, scientists will do research together in interdisciplinary project areas. They will be provided with top-notch core facilities and tailor-made technology platforms in a new research building on campus, currently under construction.

Project

CITO will link the scientific focus areas of immunotherapy, tumor research and transplantation medicine at UR even more closely and become the nucleus for cooperation with other Regensburg based institutions such as the Regensburg Center for Biochemistry (RCB (external link, opens in a new window)) and the Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy (RUN (external link, opens in a new window)) as well as with external research groups.

Research Topics

The research groups are deciphering the origin and development of pathologically altered processes of immune cell-tissue interaction in tumor diseases and in the context of transplantation.

Starting from the analysis of the mechanisms of immune homeostasis in tissues, it will be investigated how the immunological surveillance of tissues contributes to the maintenance of their integrity and how it controls repair processes after tissue damage. UR’s researchers and their colleagues aim to find out how such immune mechanisms can be harnessed to strengthen insufficient immune control, e. g. in the development of tumors, or to suppress excessive immune responses, for instance in inflammatory diseases and after blood stem cell or organ transplants.

Highly effective and targeted immunotherapeutic approaches for cancer and transplantation medicine will be developed based on these findings. To accomplish this, scientists from the University of Regensburg’s Faculties of Medicine, Biology and Pre-clinical Medicine as well as Computer and Data Science, will cooperate closely in the CITO research building.

The already strong cooperation links with the neighboring on campus extra-university research institutes Leibniz Institute for Immuntherapy (LIT (external link, opens in a new window) ) and Fraunhofer Group for Personalized Tumor Therapy (external link, opens in a new window) will be even more intensified.

Background

The scientists involved have done preliminary work for CITO in several German Research Foundation (DFG) funded (clinical) research groups (KFO 146, 243, 262 and FOR 2127, 2858), which in turn laid the foundation for the current DFG funded Collaborative Research Centers/Transregios (CRC/TRR) 221 (external link, opens in a new window) and 305 (external link, opens in a new window).

Further research being conducted in the focus areas of immunomedicine, transplantation and oncology is funded by the Bavarian Center for Cancer Research (BZKF (external link, opens in a new window)), the BMBF (National Center for Tumor Diseases - NCT WERA (external link, opens in a new window)), the EU, the German Cancer Aid (Center of Excellence in Oncology - CCC WERA (external link, opens in a new window)), and others.

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RUN. Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy (external link, opens in a new window)

• Botanical Garden
• Central Animal Laboratories (German version only)
• Computer Center
• High Performance Computing
• University Library
• More...

Faculty of Biology and Pre-Clinical Medicine

• Archaea Center
• Biomolecular NMR Facility
• Biophysics Facility
• Center for Electron Microscopy
• Center for Fluorescence Imaging
• Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility
• NGS Analysis Center (German version only)
• Wild Plants Seed Gene Bank (German version only)

Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy

• Central Analytical Services

Faculty of Human Sciences

• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  (operated by the Faculties of Human Sciences and of Medicine)

Faculty of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

• Computing Infrastructure for AI Models and Data Analysis
• Eye Tracking-Lab
• Future Interaction Lab
• Media Lab
• SpeechLab

Faculty of Medicine

• Core Facilities

Faculty of Philosophy, Art History, History and Humanities

• Art Forum
• Eye Tracking Lab
• Media Center
• Sound Studio

Faculty of Physics

• RUN. Regensburg Center for Ultrafast Nanoscopy
• Precision mechanics and electronics workshops

With its collection of more than 350,000 media items, the library of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) (external link, opens in a new window) is one of the largest libraries of its kind in the humanities and social sciences worldwide.