News, Events and Seminars

The CIID is proud that Syn­thIm­mune was select­ed for fund­ing in the nation­al com­pe­ti­tion for Clus­ters of Excel­lence. Syn­thIm­mune is cood­i­nat­ed by the CIID PI Oliv­er Fack­ler togeth­er with Ker­stin Göpfrich (ZMBH) and Michael Plat­ten (Med­ical Fac­ul­ty Mannheim/DKFZ) and involves the CIID PIs Fred­dy Frischknecht and Frauke Mücksch.

The Chi­ca and Heinz Schaller Foun­da­tion invites appli­ca­tions for the Chi­ca and Heinz Schaller Foun­da­tion Research Award 2025. The prize is meant to sup­port junior sci­en­tists at key career stages with research funds that can be used flex­i­bly and free of admin­is­tra­tive con­straints, and will hon­our inde­pen­dent research achieve­ments in biomedicine.

Appli­ca­tions are open to non-tenured sci­en­tists with an excel­lent record of inde­pen­dent achieve­ments as a junior group leader in bio­med­i­cine. Can­di­date auton­o­my should be doc­u­ment­ed by out­stand­ing pub­li­ca­tions aris­ing from his/her own inde­pen­dent research group as a senior author (with­out major con­tri­bu­tions from Insti­tute Direc­tors or mentors).

The research group should be locat­ed at one of the insti­tu­tions of Hei­del­berg Uni­ver­si­ty. In case of dual affil­i­a­tions, the pri­ma­ry affil­i­a­tion of the appli­cant must be Hei­del­berg University.

Appli­ca­tions from sci­en­tists hold­ing a W2/W3 pro­fes­sor­ship or an equiv­a­lent senior and tenured posi­tions will not be con­sid­ered. Junior/W1 pro­fes­sors with­out tenure are wel­come to apply.

Reap­pli­ca­tions by pre­vi­ous appli­cants who did not win the award are pos­si­ble, if the require­ments stat­ed above are fulfilled.

Of the 100.000 € to be award­ed, 90.000 € are spec­i­fied for the pur­suit of the awardee’s research. The remain­ing 10.000 € can be used at his/her discretion.

The clos­ing date of this call is 30.06.2025. Fur­ther details about the appli­ca­tion pro­ce­dure can be found at the web­site of the Foun­da­tion http://chs-stiftung.org

Please send appli­ca­tions or enquiries to info@chs-stiftung.de

It is with great plea­sure that we announce the 2nd Hei­del­berg Inter­fer­ons Sym­po­sium, tak­ing place on July 10th and 11th, 2025, and cor­dial­ly invite you to join us!

This excit­ing event will fea­ture a line­up of out­stand­ing inter­na­tion­al and local keynote speak­ers, offer­ing cut­ting-edge insights into inter­fer­on research. You will also have numer­ous oppor­tu­ni­ties to present your work, either through short talks or dur­ing the poster session.

Keynote speak­ers include:

• Megan Stan­i­fer, Uni­ver­si­ty of Florida
  Role of Basal Type III Inter­fer­on (IFNλ2/3) in Intesti­nal Epithe­lial Cells
• Alessan­dra Mortel­laro, Ospedale San Raf­faele, Milano
  Type I Inter­fer­ons at the Cross­roads of Immu­ni­ty and Hematopoiesis: Impli­ca­tions for Bone Mar­row Dysfunction
• Nadine Laguette, IGMM (CNRS), Montpellier
  Shap­ing of Innate Immune Respons­es Through the Crosstalk Between DNA Dam­age Response and DNA Sens­ing Pathways
• Ana Martín-Vil­lal­ba, DKFZ
• Marieke Essers, DKFZ
• Ste­fan Jor­dan, Uni­ver­si­ty Hos­pi­tal Heidelberg

Loca­tion:
Mar­sil­ius Kolleg
Im Neuen­heimer Feld 130.1
69120 Hei­del­berg, Germany

The sym­po­sium is designed to fos­ter open dis­cus­sion in a con­fi­den­tial and famil­iar atmos­phere, exclu­sive to atten­dees from the Heidelberg/Mannheim cam­pus. It is an ide­al set­ting to present unpub­lished or ongo­ing work and engage with your peers.

BBQ Din­ner: Be sure to block your cal­en­dar for the evening of Thurs­day, July 10th for a fan­tas­tic BBQ dinner—covered by your registration!

Call for Abstracts: We warm­ly encour­age you to sub­mit an abstract for a short talk or poster presentation.
Sub­mis­sion dead­line: June 16th, 2025
Noti­fi­ca­tion of selec­tion: June 23rd, 2025

If select­ed for an oral pre­sen­ta­tion, you are also wel­come to present a poster to fos­ter fur­ther discussion.

Reg­is­tra­tion dead­line: June 30th, 2025 (https://indico.dkfz.de/e/HeidelbergInterferons)
Fee: 90€, which includes full cater­ing dur­ing the event and the BBQ dinner.

We are very much look­ing for­ward to your par­tic­i­pa­tion and to an inspir­ing sym­po­sium full of stim­u­lat­ing dis­cus­sions and excit­ing research!