Set up Your Lab!

We encourage excellent basic and physician scientists with a decent publication record to set up a research lab and become a group leader in our department. We will support you in setting up your own independent research group in an excellent and stimulating research environment. We will provide you with a start-up package which allows financing personnel and consumables for one year. We also fund a lab rotation for physicians in the starting phase. Applications are possible at any time.

The program aims for setting up a strong research environment at the Department of Medicine 1 and for the continous development of scientific excellence in the field of gastrointestinal biology and pathogenesis in Erlangen.

Erlangen already has a strong expertise in the field of basic and clinical research into intestinal diseases. A number of research groups in various departments are investigating molecular and cellular pathways of the development of intestinal inflammation and colorectal cancer. Intermediate results of these efforts are the establishment of the DFG-funded clinical research group KFO257 "Molecular Pathogenesis and Optimized Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Diseases", the establishment of the Collaborative Research Center TRR241 " Immune-Epithelial Communication in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases" and the participation in the research group FOR2438 "Cell Plasticity in Colorectal Carcinogenesis". Furthermore, the Medical Clinic 1 is involved in the Erlangen SFB1181 "Checkpoints for Resolution of Inflammation". Due to the excellent integration of the topic of intestinal inflammation and intestinal cancer at the University Medical Center Erlangen, the chances of success for junior research groups in this field are particularly good.

Successful applicants for this program should have excellent publications and an interesting project allowing them to aquire substantial extramural funding within the first year.