Collaborative Research

EXC 3112

Center for Chiral Electronics (external link, opens in a new window)

Spokespersons: Georg Woltersdorf (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), Katharina Franke (Freie Universit?t Berlin), Christoph Strunk (external link, opens in a new window) (University of Regensburg)

Starting 2026

Press Release, 22/05/25

DFG Research Training Groups with UR Spokesperson

GRK 2905

• Ultrafast Nanoscopy - From 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

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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

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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

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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)

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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)

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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)

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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

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Priority Programs with UR Participation

SPP 2526

• 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 (German version only)
• 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

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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 (external link, opens in a new window), Europe's largest research funding program| Project website Fairville (external link, opens in a new window)

Anna Steigemann

Funding amount: 2.6 Mio Euro €

Duration: Since 2023

Press release, 02/27/2023 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

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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 (external link, opens in a new window)

Anne Herrmann-Johns (external link, opens in a new window)

Funding amount: 2 Mio €

Duration: 2024 - 2028

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Long-term study NAKO - German National Cohort 

Project website NAKO (external link, opens in a new window)

Michael Leitzmann (external link, opens in a new window)

Funding amount: 3.4 Mio €

Duration: Third funding phase 01.05.2023 - 30.04.2028

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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 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only) 

Duration: 2022 - 2025

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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" (external link, opens in a new window)

Oleksandr Zabirko (external link, opens in a new window) and Alina Strzempa (external link, opens in a new window)

Duration: 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2026

Press release, 01/19/2022 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

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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) (external link, opens in a new window)

Alfred Lindl (external link, opens in a new window)

Duration: 01.06.2021 - 31.05.2026

Press release, 06/29/2021 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)

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Project Metabodefense

funded by the Bavarian State Ministry of Science and the Arts | Project website Metabodefense (external link, opens in a new window) | Bavarian Research Network ¡°New strategies against multi-resistant pathogens using digital networking¡± bayresq.net (external link, opens in a new window)

Jonathan Jantsch (external link, opens in a new window), Katja Dettmer-Wilde (external link, opens in a new window) & Rainer Spang (external link, opens in a new window)

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 (external link, opens in a new window)

Duration: 01.05.2022 - 30.04.2029

Press release, 02/03/2022 (external link, opens in a new window) (German version only)