Research Projects

EXC 3112?

Center for Chiral Electronics

Spokespersons: Georg Woltersdorf (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Katharina Franke (Freie Universit?t Berlin), Christoph Strunk (University of Regensburg)

Starting 2026

Press Release, 22/05/25

DFG Research Training Groups with UR Spokesperson

GRK 2905

Ultrafast Nanoscopy - fFom Single Particle Dynamics to Cooperative Processes

Spokesperson: Rupert Huber ??

Since 2024

Press release, 8/11/2023

GRK 2620

Ion Pair Effects in Molecular Reactivity

Spokesperson: Ruth Gschwind?? ?

Since 2021

GRK 2337

Pre-modern Metropolitansim

Spokesperson: J?rg Oberste

Since 2017

GRK 2174

Neurobiology of Social and Emotional Dysfunctions

Spokesperson: Inga Neumann?? ?

Since 2017

DFG Research Training Groups with UR as Co-Applicant Institution

GRK 2339

IntComSin: Interfaces, Complex Structures, and Singular Limits in Continuum Mechanics - Analysis and Numerics

Spokesperson: G¨¹nther Gr¨¹n (FAU Erlangen-N¨¹rnberg) ???

Since 2018

DFG Research Training Group with UR Participation

GRK 2740

Immunomicrotope: Microenvironmental, Metabolic and Microbial Signals Regulating Immune Cell-Pathogen Interactions

Spokesperson: Christian Bogdan (FAU Erlangen-N¨¹rnberg)

Since 2022

ENB International Doctorate Program with UR Spokesperson

Photo-Electro Catalysis (PEC)

Program website PEC?

Headed by Oliver Reiser

Duration: 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2025

Project description on the Bavarian Elite Network website

Press release, 12/23/2021?(German version only)

ENB International Doctorate Program with UR participation

RNA med - Future Leaders in RNA-based Medicine

Website RNA med Graduateprogram

in cooperation with TUM and LMU Munich, headed by JMU W¨¹rzburg

Project description on the Bavarian Elite Network website

Press release, 12/23/2021 (German version only)

Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios with UR als Applicant Institution

TRR 305

Striking a moving target: From mechanisms of metastatic organ colonisation to novel systemic therapies

Spokesperson: Christoph Klein

Since 2021
Press release, 11/27/2020 (German version only)

TRR 374

TRR 374: Tubular system and interstitium of the kidney: (Patho-) physiology and crosstalk

Spokesperson: Mario Schiffer (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg), since 1/2025; Richard Warth until 12/2024

Since 2019

TRR 221

TRR 221: Modulation of graft-versus-host and graft-versus-leukemia immune responses after allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Spokesperson: Wolfgang Herr

Since 2018
Press release, 11/26/2021 (German version only)

SFB 1277

Emergent Relativistic Effects in Condensed Matter: From Fundamental Aspects to Electronic Functionality

Spokesperson: Jaroslav Fabian

Since 2017
Press release, 05/26/2017 (German version only)

SFB?1085

Higher Invariants ¨C Interactions between Arithmetic Geometry and Global Analysis

Spokesperson: Guido Kings

Since 2014
Press release, 11/25/2021 (German version only)

Transregio with UR as Co-Applicant Institution

TRR 325

Assembly Controlled Chemical Photocatalysis

Spokesperson: Thorsten Bach (Technical University of Munich)

Since 2021
Press release, 05/25/2021 (German version only)

Collaborative Research Centres with UR Participation

SFB 1371

Microbiome Signatures - Functional Relevance in the Digestive Tract

Spokesperson: Dirk Haller (Technical University of Munich)

Since 2019

SFB 1119

CROSSING - Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments

Spokesperson: Marc Fischlin (Technichal University of Darmstadt)?? ?

Since 2014

Priority Programs with UR Spokesperson

SPP 2256

Variational Methods for Predicting Complex Phenomena in Engineering Structures and Materials

Spokesperson: Georg Dolzmann?? ?

Since 2020

Priority Programs with UR Participation

Holistic Design of Molecular Communication Systems?

Coordinator: Professor Dr.-Ing. Robert Schober, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

From 2026

SPP 1991?

Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity

Spokesperson: Dominik Begerow (Universit?t Hamburg)

Since 2017

SPP 2014?

Towards an Implantable Lung

Spokesperson: Rolf Rossaint (Universit?tsklinikum Aachen)

Since 2017

SPP 2026

Geometry at Infinity

Spokesperson: Bernhard Hanke (University of Augsburg)

Since 2017

SPP 2084?

?BONE: Colonization and interaction of tumor cells within the bone microenvironment

Spokesperson: Lorenz C. Hofbauer (Universit?tsklinikum Dresden)

Since 2018

SPP 2130

Early Modern Translation Cultures (1450-1800)

Spokesperson: Regina Toepfer (Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t of W¨¹rzburg)

Seit 2018

SPP 2141

Much more than defence: the multiple functions and facets of CRISPR-Cas

Spokeseperson: Anita Marchfelder (Ulm University)

Since 2018

SPP 2191

Molecular Mechanisms of Functional Phase Separation

Spokesperson: Edward A. Lemke (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Since 2019

SPP 2199

Scalable Interaction Paradigms for Pervasive Computing Environments

Spokesperson: Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg)

Since 2020

SPP 2236

Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments ¨C AUDICTIVE

Spokesperson: Janina Fels (RWTH Aachen)

Since 2020

SPP 2244

2D Materials ¨C Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures (2DMP)

Spokesperson: Thomas Heine (TU Dresden)

Since 2020

SPP 2416

CodeChi - Chitin, chitosan and chito-oligosaccharides and their interaction with proteins of the extracellular matrix and cellular signaling

Spokesperson: Hans Merzendorfer, University of Siegen

Since 2023

Research Units with UR Spokesperson

FOR 5424

Modulation of olfaction: how recurrent circuits govern state-dependent behaviour

Spokesperson: Veronica Egger

Since 2021
Press release, 07/04/2022 (German version only)

FOR 5235

Cereal Stem Cell Systems (CSCS): Establishment, Maintenance and Termination

Spokesperson: Thomas Dresselhaus

Since 2021
Press release, 09/30/2021 (German version only)

FOR?2926

Next generation Perturbative QCD for Hadron Structure: Preparing for Electron-Ion Collider

Spokesperson: Vladimir Braun

Since 2019

FOR?2858

Role of translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) as a diagnostic and therapeutic target in the nervous system

Spokesperson: Rainer Rupprecht

Since 2019
Press release, 07/10/2019 (German version only)

FOR 2770

Beyond Canon_: Heterotopias of Religious Authority in Ancient Christianity

Spokesperson: Tobias Nicklas?? ?

Since 2018

FOR 2407

Exploring Articular Cartilage and Subchondral Bone Degeneration and Regeneration in Osteoarthritis (ExCarBon)

Spokesperson: Susanne Gr?ssel?? ?

Since 2016

Research Units with UR Participation

FOR 5098

Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction ¨C ICIPS

Spokesperson: Annette Becker (Justus Liebig University Giessen)?? ?

Since 2021

FOR 5242

Proximity-induced correlation effects in low dimensional systems

Spokesperson: Chistoph Tegenkamp (Chemnitz University of Technology)??

Since 2021

FOR 2733

Transformation of Sacred Space: Function and Use of Religious Places in Germany

Spokesperson: Albert Gerhards (University of Bonn)?? ?

Since 2019

FOR 3013

Vector- and Tensor-Valued Surface PDEs

Spokesperson: Axel Voigt (TU Dresden)?? ?

Since 2019

FOR 2959

Health literacy in early childhood allergy prevention: parental competencies and public health context in a shifting evidence landscape (HELICAP)

Spokesperson: Christian Apfelbacher? (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)?? ?

Since 2019

FOR 2830

Advanced Concepts in Cellular Immune Control of Cytomegalovirus

Spokesperson: Lars D?lken (Julius-Maximilians-Universit?t of W¨¹rzburg)

Since 2019

FOR 5200

DEEP-DV: Disrupt ¨C Evade ¨C Exploit. Gene expression and host response programming in DNA virus infection

Spokesperson Melanie Brinkmann (TU Braunschweig)

Since 2021

FOR (KFO) 5011

Integrating emerging methods to advance translational kidney research (InteraKD)

Spokesperson: Peter Boor (Universit?tsklinikum Aachen)

Since 2021

Project Fairville

funded by HORIZON EUROPE, Europe's largest research funding program| Project website Fairville

Anna Steigemann

Funding amount: 2.6 Mio Euro €

Duration: Since 2023

Press release, 02/27/2023

Trial PRISMA

"A pilot randomized phase II trial on social prescriptions and micro learning to improve care for patients with various cancer entities and their support persons", funded by the NCT Investigator-Initiated Trial (IIT) Portfolio

Anne Herrmann-Johns

Funding amount: 2 Mio €

Duration: 2024 - 2028

Long-term study NAKO - German National Cohort?

Project website NAKO

Michael Leitzmann

Funding amount: 3.4 Mio €

Duration: Third funding phase 01.05.2023 - 30.04.2028

Research unit ?Kultur und Erinnerung. Heimatvertriebene und Aussiedler in Bayern¡°?

of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and UR's Chair of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe, funded by the Free State of Bavaria??| Webseite of the research unit on the IOS homepage (German version only)?

Duration: 2022 - 2025

Project "Poetics of Industrial Landscapes: The Donbas and Upper Silesia in Comparative Perspective¡°

funded by the Bundesministerium f¨¹r Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) within the framework of a joint project??| Project website "Poetics of Industrial Landscapes"

Oleksandr Zabirko and Alina Strzempa

Duration: 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2026

Press release, 01/19/2022 (German version only)

Project FALKO

"FALKO-PV ¨C Fachspezifische Lehrkraftkompetenzen ¨C Pr?diktive Validierung von Professionswissenstests f¨¹r Lehrkr?fte in sechs Unterrichtsf?chern", funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education, Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth under the framework program "Empirische Bildungsforschung"?| Project website FALKO (German only)

Alfred Lindl

Duration: 01.06.2021 - 31.05.2026

Press release, 06/29/2021 (German version only)

Project Metabodefense

funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts | Project website Metabodefense? | Bavarian Research Network?¡°New strategies against multi-resistant pathogens using digital networking¡± bayresq.net

Jonathan Jantsch, Katja Dettmer-Wilde & Rainer Spang

Duration: 2000 - 2025

Southeast European Studies

funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within the framework of the program World Knowledge ¨C Structural Support for "Rare Subjects"?

Ger Duijzings

Duration: 01.05.2022 - 30.04.2029

Press release, 02/03/2022 (German version only)