News-Archive

News-Archive

First CECAD Graduate Symposium 2012

Monday, 19.11.2012 | Category: Calendar, TopNews

Graduation talks from CECAD Graduate School students, class of 2009 [more]

European Union Initiative Invests in Aging Research

Tuesday, 24.07.2012 | Category: TopNews

High-profile international network for research into DNA damage to be coordinated by CECAD Junior Group Leader Dr. Björn Schumacher  [more]

Highest honors for CECAD junior scientist

Wednesday, 18.07.2012 | Category: TopNews

In receiving an ERC starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC), Dr. Aleksandra Trifunovic has obtained 1.5 million Euros worth of research funding. [more]

Aging Science Expedition – CECAD live

Thursday, 12.07.2012 | Category: TopNews

Now online! [more]

The decision has been made -

Friday, 15.06.2012 | Category: TopNews

CECAD is funded via the DFG within the Excellence Initiative for another 5 years! [more]

High-Class Evening Event at the IHK Cologne

Wednesday, 13.06.2012 | Category: TopNews

Opening of the Exhibition Aging Science Expedition – CECAD live [more]

Aging Science Expedition – CECAD live

Thursday, 07.06.2012 | Category: TopNews, CECAD Projects

An Exhibition by CECAD. 13 - 15th June. Cologne 

Decision in the Excellence Initiative

Wednesday, 06.06.2012 | Category: TopNews

Lifestream on Friday, June 15th, 3p.m. [more]

Honors received for new Leukemia Therapy

Tuesday, 17.04.2012 | Category: TopNews

Paul-Martini Prize for Prof. Michael Hallek [more]

Dr. Christian Reinhardt awarded scientific research prize of the GlaxoSmithKline Foundation

Wednesday, 15.02.2012 | Category: TopNews

CECAD Junior Group Leader Dr. Christian Reinhardt (Department of Internal Medicine I) has won an award worth 10,000 Euros for his development of innovative approaches to the treatment of cancer patients. He will receive the... [more]

PD Dr. Christian Reinhardt

Pioneer of the Life Sciences honored

Tuesday, 24.01.2012 | Category: TopNews

Prof. Klaus Rajewsky receives honorary doctorate [more]

Prof. Klaus Rajewsky

Professor Michael Hallek elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Friday, 28.10.2011 | Category: TopNews

The National Academy of Sciences have conferred membership of the Leopoldina on Prof. Dr Michael Hallek, Professor for Internal Medicine and Director of the Department of Internal Medicine I at the University Hospital of Cologne.... [more]

Prof. Manolis Pasparakis: Protein regulating cell death prevents skin inflammation

Monday, 17.10.2011 | Category: TopNews

Prof. Manolis Pasparakis and his colleagues at CECAD – the Cluster of Excellence for Aging Research – and Collaborative Research Centre 829 at the University of Cologne have made a breakthrough with their research into... [more]

Prof. Dr Oliver Cornely has been elected President of the ECMM – European Confederation of Medical Mycology

Monday, 10.10.2011 | Category: TopNews

High honors for Cologne Specialist in Infectious Diseases: Prof. Dr Oliver Cornely of the Excellence Cluster CECAD and University Hospital of Cologne, Director of the Clinical Trials Center in Cologne has been elected President... [more]

CECAD member receives grant to built up an Emmy Noether-Group

Saturday, 01.10.2011 | Category: TopNews

Dr Michael Lammers has received a five-year grant of nearly 1.4 million Euros as part of the Emmy Noether Program to set up a new Junior Research Group. With this, the DFG recognizes the potential of the postgraduate biologist’s... [more]

PD Dr. Christian Reinhardt receives the Vincenz-Czerny Prize

Wednesday, 28.09.2011 | Category: TopNews

This year’s Vincenz-Czerny prize of the German Society of Hematology and Oncology (DGHO) has been awarded to PD Dr. Christian Reinhardt. The prestigious award recognizes Dr. Reinhard’s achievements in the field of anti-cancer... [more]

CECAD Imagefilm

Friday, 23.09.2011 | Category: TopNews, Research

The new CECAD Imagefilm is now available on our website. 

Prof. Thomas Benzing - An interview on DRadio Wissen

Wednesday, 07.09.2011 | Category: TopNews

"What scientists know about about ageing" [more]

Special Event aboard MS Wissenschaft: “Aging Research – an Investment in the Future”

Thursday, 25.08.2011 | Category: TopNews, CECAD Projects

Cluster of Excellence CECAD took the opportunity of MS Wissenschaft’s mooring in the city to hold a special evening event on 24th August aboard the inland cargo vessel. Radio Host, Dr. Ralf Müller-Schmid of DRadio Wissen, hosted... [more]

Cluster of Excellence CECAD with an interactive exhibit on MS Wissenschaft

Wednesday, 24.08.2011 | Category: TopNews

On 24th and 25th August the floating science center opened her hatches in the historic city center of Cologne, offering visitors fascinating glimpses into the mysteries of the human body. [more]

Five CECAD Travel Grants available

Wednesday, 17.08.2011 | Category: TopNews

CECAD offers again up to five travel grants (1,500 € each) to CECAD PostDocs and last year PhD students who want to use an international meeting as a career stimulating option to discuss with attending PIs the option of the next... [more]

PD Dr. Christian Reinhardt receives from the Volkswagen-Stiftung a Lichtenberg-Professorship.

Friday, 29.07.2011 | Category: TopNews, Research

Please click for further... [more]

Christian Reinhardt

Jens Brüning - searching for the cause of aging

Monday, 25.07.2011 | Category: TopNews

An interview on Deutsche Welle  [more]

Bengt Belgardt wins the Körber Foundation - German Thesis Award

Monday, 18.07.2011 | Category: TopNews

First prize in the Science and Technology section was awarded to Dr Bengt Belgardt from the research team of Prof. Jens Brüning for his dissertation on the topic “Obesity and diabetes mellitus  - neuronal inflammation as a... [more]

Cancer researcher distinguished with CESAR award

Friday, 17.06.2011 | Category: TopNews

PD Dr. Christian Reinhardt, researcher at the University Hospital of Cologne (CECAD, Department of Internal Medicine I) is honored with the prestigious award of the Central European Society for Anticancer Drug Research (CESAR) on... [more]

Researchers of the University Hospital of Cologne found new gene and pathomechanism for the Joubert syndrome

Friday, 10.06.2011 | Category: TopNews

The Joubert syndrome is a malformation syndrome, which is characterized by a complex brain malformation. An international team of researchers around PD Dr. Hanno J. Bolz/Institute of Human Genetics and PD Dr. Bernhard... [more]

Hungry for rewards - insulin in the midbrain influences eating behaviour

Wednesday, 08.06.2011 | Category: TopNews

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Neurological Research and the University of Cologne discover that insulin acts as a messenger in neurons of the midbrain and find a connection with the brain’s reward system  [more]

Insulin action in the brain can lead to obesity

Monday, 06.06.2011 | Category: TopNews

Researchers decode an important mechanism through which insulin in the hypothalamus controls the body’s energy balance [more]

CECAD with „Keep the worm alive!“ on MS Wissenschaft

Thursday, 19.05.2011 | Category: TopNews, CECAD Projects, Central Office

New sub-page www.young-cecad.de is online [more]

The exhibition object "Keep the worm alive"

Junior Prize for Dr. Tina Wenz

Thursday, 31.03.2011 | Category: TopNews, Research, Central Office

Researcher from the Cluster of Excellence CECAD receives Junior Prize for neuromuscular disease from the German Society for muscular disease (DGM) [more]

Dr. Tina Wenz

Cologne Spring Meeting 2011

Wednesday, 09.03.2011 | Category: Calendar, TopNews

9. - 11. März 2011 [more]

Fitting to the excellence initiative

Wednesday, 02.03.2011 | Category: TopNews, Central Office

Interview with Prof. Jens Brüning, coordinator of the cluster of excellence CECAD [more]

Interview with Prof. Brüning

Information Event 'National and European research funding for young researchers'

Tuesday, 08.02.2011 | Category: TopNews

During the information event on February 08, jointly organised by the IPMM programme, the MPI for the Biology of Ageing and CECAD, young researchers were informed about National and European funding possibilities. [more]

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The new website of CECAD

Monday, 31.01.2011 | Category: TopNews, Central Office

We are online with our new website. Please visit us! 

Cancer research Cologne honoured two-times

Monday, 24.01.2011 | Category: TopNews, Research

Prestigious awards for researchers of University Hospital and University of Cologne [more]

Innovationspreis NRW

Saturday, 19.09.2009 | Category: TopNews

Dr. Björn Schumacher (Institut für Genetik der Universität zu Köln) erhält den diesjährigen Innovationspreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen. [more]

Next-generation sequencing at CECAD Cologne

Wednesday, 06.05.2009 | Category: TopNews

CECAD Cologne's Genomics Facility, one of the central facilities of the Excellence Cluster, purchased the Illumina next-generation sequencing instrument: the Genome Analyzer GAIIx. This technique allows the decoding of a... [more]

CECAD Cologne’s Imaging Facility started!

Tuesday, 05.05.2009 | Category: TopNews

On 5 May 2009 was the official start of the Imaging Facility of CECAD Cologne, one of the central facilities of the Cluster of Excellence. So far it has five different microscopes available: a wide field fluorescence ... [more]

Tamas Horvath joins CECAD Cologne as fifth recruitment

Thursday, 23.04.2009 | Category: TopNews

After having been selected for the Alexander von Humboldt-Professorship, Prof.Tamas Horvath decided to join the Cluster of Excellence on ageing research of the University of Cologne, CECAD Cologne. With the help of this award... [more]

Aging as a way of survival

Tuesday, 14.04.2009 | Category: TopNews

New discovery by CECAD Cologne: Persistent DNA damage induces longevityassurance program [more]

Opening of the new building of the CMMC

Thursday, 22.01.2009 | Category: TopNews

The new building of the Center for Molecular Medicine at the University of Cologne will be inaugurated on 23 January 2009. The CMMC is a central interdisciplinary institution of the University. It investigates at the molecular... [more]

Prof. Peter Nürnberg and international team - Discovery of causes for cdIF inborn error

Friday, 16.01.2009 | Category: TopNews

Peter Nürnberg and an international team of scientists and clinicians discoverd the causes for a rare genetic disorder called, cblF combined homocystinuria and methylmalonic aciduria. Patients with this disease are hindered to... [more]

2009 Ernst-Jung Prize awarded to Prof. Jens Brüning

Thursday, 08.01.2009 | Category: TopNews

Jens Brüning has been awarded the Ernst-Jung-Prize 2009. The Prize amounts to 150.000 Euro and the ceremony will take place on 9 May 2009 in Hamburg. Together with Jens Brüning another scientist, Prof. Patrick Cramer PhD from... [more]

New Collaborative Research Center ("SFB 829") and extension of existing one ("SFB 612")

Tuesday, 25.11.2008 | Category: TopNews

Die Haut des Menschen ist ein hoch spezialisiertes, überlebenswichtiges Organ, das den Organismus gegen schädliche Umwelteinflüsse schützt, aber ihn auch mit der Umgebung verbindet. Sie besteht im Wesentlichen aus zwei... [more]

CECAD Cologne: Selected place 2009

Tuesday, 25.11.2008 | Category: TopNews

Ageing research by CECAD Cologne has been selected as one of the 365 places in the country of German ideas (365 Orte im Land der Ideen). Deutschland Country of Ideas (Deutschland Land der Ideen) is an initiative of the Federal... [more]

Einer Genmutation auf der Spur / Nature-Veröffentlichung

Monday, 10.11.2008 | Category: TopNews

Wissenschaftler untersuchten genetisch isolierte Bevölkerungsgruppe [more]

Gary Ruvkun, member of CECAD Cologne's Advisory Board wins Lasker Award

Tuesday, 28.10.2008 | Category: TopNews

CECAD Cologne warmly congratulates Gary Ruvkun for sharing the 2008 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award.This Lasker Award is awarded to persons who made major contributions to medical science and is often referred to as... [more]

1,8 Million Euro for Prof. Thomas Langer

Tuesday, 21.10.2008 | Category: TopNews

Nur 12 Deutsche haben in diesem Jahr den mit 1,8 Millionen Euro dotierten Forscherpreis der Europäischen Forschungsgesellschaft erhalten. Europaweit sind 78 Forscher mit dem „Advanced Investigator´s Grant" ausgezeichnet... [more]

5 Millionen Euro für Forschung in Köln

Wednesday, 15.10.2008 | Category: TopNews

Humboldt-Professor Dr. Tamas Horvath forscht künftig im Kölner Exzellenzcluster CECAD Cologne [more]

Köln, Bonn und Jülich erhalten Zuschlag für Deutsches Demenzzentrum

Tuesday, 11.03.2008 | Category: TopNews

Nordrhein-Westfalen erhält den Zuschlag für das neue „Deutsche Zentrum für die Erforschung Neurodegenerativer Erkrankungen" (DZNE), wie heute Bundesforschungsministerin Annette Schavan in einer Pressekonferenz bekannt... [more]