Project Details
Projekt
GSC 97: Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB)
Subject Area
Medicine
Term
from 2006 to 2018
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 24185540
The Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering (DIGS-BB) aims at establishing an internationally recognised centre of graduate training in the field of biomedicine and bioengineering, and to provide optimal conditions for excellent students working towards their PhD. The areas covered by the DIGS-BB represent fields of extraordinary scientific excellence in Dresden. The faculty of the DIGS-BB is composed of about 75 groups of the Technische Universität Dresden (Biotechnological Center, Medical Faculty, the Departments Biology, Chemistry and Physics of the Faculty of Science, as well as groups of the Faculties of Engineering and Informatics), of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, and of three Leibniz Institutes. Many of the groups are members of the Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD), of the center of excellence "From Cells to Tissues to Therapies: Engineering the Cellular Basis of Regeneration", and of the Collaborative Research Centre 655 "Cells into Tissues: Stem Cell and Progenitor Commitment and Interactions during Tissue Formation".
The DIGS-BB offers three interactive PhD programmes:
(1) International PhD-Programme for Cell and Developmental Biology
(2) International MD/PhD-Programme for Regenerative Medicine
(3) International PhD-Programme for Nanobiotechnology, Biophysics and Bioengineering According to the curricula each student will be trained in the field of the respective programme, but in addition the tight linkage with the other two programmes assures interactive and interdisciplinary training. Teaching modules centrally organised by the DIGS-BB complete the training. Each student is assigned to a specific Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) that is composed of three group leaders (inclusive the direct supervisor of the thesis). The complementing know-how of the TAC members assures optimal mentoring during the experimental work. On a regular basis the students present the progress and future plans of their work both in a written and oral form.
Recommendations of the TAC including the fixing of the time of completion of the thesis work (maximum 4 years) are binding. The DIGS-BB aims at the implementation of own doctorate regulations that allow to confer the title PhD (and MD/PhD, respectively) to all successful graduates, irrespective of their former university degree.
The DIGS-BB offers three interactive PhD programmes:
(1) International PhD-Programme for Cell and Developmental Biology
(2) International MD/PhD-Programme for Regenerative Medicine
(3) International PhD-Programme for Nanobiotechnology, Biophysics and Bioengineering According to the curricula each student will be trained in the field of the respective programme, but in addition the tight linkage with the other two programmes assures interactive and interdisciplinary training. Teaching modules centrally organised by the DIGS-BB complete the training. Each student is assigned to a specific Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC) that is composed of three group leaders (inclusive the direct supervisor of the thesis). The complementing know-how of the TAC members assures optimal mentoring during the experimental work. On a regular basis the students present the progress and future plans of their work both in a written and oral form.
Recommendations of the TAC including the fixing of the time of completion of the thesis work (maximum 4 years) are binding. The DIGS-BB aims at the implementation of own doctorate regulations that allow to confer the title PhD (and MD/PhD, respectively) to all successful graduates, irrespective of their former university degree.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Technische Universität Dresden
Participating Institution
Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR); Leibniz-Institut für Polymerforschung Dresden e.V. (IPF); Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme; Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik (MPI-CBG)
Spokesperson
Professor Dr. Gerhard Rödel
Participating Researchers
Professor Ezio Bonifacio, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Martin Bornhäuser; Professor Stefan R. Bornstein, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Michael Brand; Professor Dr. Frank Buchholz; Professor Dr. Stefan Diez; Professorin Dr. Suzanne Eaton (†); Professor Dr. Stephan Wolfgang Grill; Professor Dr. Bernard Hoflack; Professor Dr. Jonathon Howard; Professor Dr. Wieland B. Huttner; Professor Dr. Anthony A. Hyman; Professor Dr. Rolf Jessberger; Professor Dr. Gerd Kempermann; Professorin Dr. Elisabeth Knust; Professorin Karla Neugebauer, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Michael Schroeder; Professor Michele Solimena; Professor Dr. Adrian Francis Stewart; Professorin Elly Margaret Tanaka, Ph.D.; Professorin Iva Marija Tolic, Ph.D.; Professorin Brigitte Voit, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Carsten Werner; Professor Marino Zerial, Ph.D.
