Project Details
Projekt
GSC 4: Molecular Cell Research in Biology and Medicine (MOBILMED)
Subject Area
Basic Research in Biology and Medicine
Term
from 2006 to 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24040252
The graduate school MOBILMED, located at the University of Freiburg, wants to offer excellent, highly motivated students from biology, medicine, molecular medicine, chemistry and other branches a superb, interdisciplinary doctoral training. This will be achieved by the following measures:
(1) A rigorous selection of candidates,
(2) supervision that is clear-cut and efficient but allowing maximal academic creativity, controlled by Thesis Committees and an Advisory Board,
(3) a balanced, interdisciplinary education programme connecting the six research areas of the graduate school, including "key qualification" courses and a monthly school reunion,
(4) an innovative MD/PhD programme with pre-doctoral training in basic research,
(5) a "mobile" research and teaching exchange ("MOBILity") programme with 30 partner universities/graduate schools abroad and with a certain number of industrial firms,
(6) the evaluation of courses and didactics training of professors and assistants,
(7) the excellence study tracks molecular medicine in Freiburg and trinational biotechnology in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Basel, Strasbourg as one base for recruitment,
(8) equal salary and social benefits for all doctoral students,
(9) increasing career possibilities for women, in particular support of female doctoral students with children and family,
(10) graduation prizes allocated at the annual graduation ceremony,
(11) creation of a "corporate identity" through scientific and social reunions and a "campus" where the graduate school's management, teaching and housing are centralised, and
(12) educational and financial measures to pursue the graduate school after five years.
The graduate school is based on ten established research and teaching programmes supported by four Research Training Groups, the International Max Planck Research School, four Collaborative Research Centres and the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neurosciences that have proven to be of high scientific standard and led by internationally renowned scientists. The programmes cover a wide range of research disciplines, such as protein structure and function, developmental biology, neurosciences, immunology, molecular medicine and molecular plant sciences, that will be interconnected and supplemented with interdisciplinary courses offered by the Centre of Systems Biology and the International Graduate Academy of the University.
(1) A rigorous selection of candidates,
(2) supervision that is clear-cut and efficient but allowing maximal academic creativity, controlled by Thesis Committees and an Advisory Board,
(3) a balanced, interdisciplinary education programme connecting the six research areas of the graduate school, including "key qualification" courses and a monthly school reunion,
(4) an innovative MD/PhD programme with pre-doctoral training in basic research,
(5) a "mobile" research and teaching exchange ("MOBILity") programme with 30 partner universities/graduate schools abroad and with a certain number of industrial firms,
(6) the evaluation of courses and didactics training of professors and assistants,
(7) the excellence study tracks molecular medicine in Freiburg and trinational biotechnology in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Basel, Strasbourg as one base for recruitment,
(8) equal salary and social benefits for all doctoral students,
(9) increasing career possibilities for women, in particular support of female doctoral students with children and family,
(10) graduation prizes allocated at the annual graduation ceremony,
(11) creation of a "corporate identity" through scientific and social reunions and a "campus" where the graduate school's management, teaching and housing are centralised, and
(12) educational and financial measures to pursue the graduate school after five years.
The graduate school is based on ten established research and teaching programmes supported by four Research Training Groups, the International Max Planck Research School, four Collaborative Research Centres and the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neurosciences that have proven to be of high scientific standard and led by internationally renowned scientists. The programmes cover a wide range of research disciplines, such as protein structure and function, developmental biology, neurosciences, immunology, molecular medicine and molecular plant sciences, that will be interconnected and supplemented with interdisciplinary courses offered by the Centre of Systems Biology and the International Graduate Academy of the University.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Participating Institution
Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie und Epigenetik
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Christoph Borner
Participating Researchers
Professor Dr. Adrianus Aertsen; Professorin Asifa Akhtar, Ph.D.; Professorin Dr. Marlene Bartos; Professorin Dr. Leena Kaarina Bruckner-Tuderman; Professor Dr. Tilman Brummer; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Driever; Professor Dr. Oliver Einsle; Professor Dr. Bernd Fakler; Professor Dr. Tobias B. Huber; Professorin Dr. Carola Hunte; Professor Dr. Hassan Jumaa; Professorin Dr. Kerstin Krieglstein; Professor Dr. Thomas Laux; Professor Dr. Chris Meisinger; Professorin Dr. Heike L. Pahl; Professor Dr. Nikolaus Pfanner; Professor Dr. Michael Reth; Professorin Dr. Sabine Karola Rospert; Professor Dr. Wolfgang Schamel; Professor Dr. Oliver Schilling; Professor Dr. Martin Schwemmle; Professor Dr. Robert Thimme; Professor Dr. Gerd Walz; Professor Dr. Wilfried Weber
