GRK 1657:  Molecular and Cellular Responses to Ionising Radiation

• Subject Area: Medicine
• Term: from 2011 to 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 161030019

The Research Training Group focusses on a combination and merger of innovative cellular and molecular as well as bioinformatical research strategies with the aim to understand the action of ionising radiation over a wide range from the molecule to the whole organism. The Leitmotiv of our endeavour is a basic research strategy, which investigates radiation effects by using state-of-the-art microscopic, modelling, cellular and irradiation approaches and technologies.
A main element in this strategy is the collaboration of experts from biology, chemistry and physics of the TU Darmstadt with the renowned radio-biophysical group at the GSI (Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung) and the Department of Radiation Therapy and Oncology of the Goethe University Frankfurt.
The Research Training Group will establish an interdisciplinary teaching and research environment, which meets the demands of this interdisciplinary research field and provides a graduate programme with a focus of education on professional needs and scientific qualifications.

• DFG Programme: Research Training Groups
• Applicant Institution: Technische Universität Darmstadt
• Spokesperson: Professor Dr. Markus Löbrich
• Participating Researchers: Professorin Dr. Maria Cristina Cardoso; Dr. Dorothee Deckbar; Professor Dr. Norbert A. Dencher; Professorin Dr. Barbara Drossel; Professorin Claudia Fournier, Ph.D.; Dr. Florian Frohns; Professor Dr. Kay Hamacher; Dr. Burkhard Jakob; Professor Dr. Bodo Laube; Privatdozent Dr. Tobias Meckel; Dr. Alexander Rapp; Professor Dr. Franz Rödel; Professor Dr. Boris Schmidt; Privatdozent Dr. Michael Scholz; Professor Dr. Gerhard Thiel