The organisational needs of the Rostocker Academy of Science (RAS) are covered by the RAS Board. It consists of the speaker and representatives of the scientific areas, the non-clinical departments and the RAS members. The CTNR Board elected the following CTNR members for representing the neuroscience area:

1st representative: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Kipp (Anatomy)
2nd representative: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. T. Freiman (Neurosurgery)
Deputy representative: Prof. Dr. med. A. Storch (Neurology)

The main task of the RAS Board is the recruitment and final evaluation of Clinician and Medical Scientists at the University Medicine Rostock.

With the kind support of a review board, the applicants were assessed as part of the 3. CTNR Medical Scientist Programme. The CTNR Board would like to thank the experts for their cooperation:

• Prof. Dr. Lars Tönges (Department of Neurology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Prof. Dr. med. Björn Falkenburger (Department of Neurology, Dresden University Medical Center)

The CTNR offers a Clinician Scientist position in the Neurosciences for the research protected time of two years within the specialist/subspecialist training time to conduct a theoretical research project.

The program consists of an individual clinical, scientific and soft skill educational curriculum under the umbrella of the Rostock Academy for Science (RAS).

Application deadline: open

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The CTNR Community thanks Robert Steinfeld, Professor of Pediatric Neurology at the University of Zurich for his talk on "New insights into childhood dementia" within the CTNR Lecture Series on 28th July 2022 . Prof. Steinfeld presented the results associated with the CLN5 variant of NCL disease as an important step towards understanding the neurodegenerative disease mechanisms.

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The CTNR Neuro Medical Scientist Programme includes the financial support of positions for (non-physician) medical scientists/doctoral candidates with a focus on neurosciences. The financial support is used to give young scientists the opportunity to apply for third-party funds (“Anschubfinanzierung”) or to complete the doctorate (“Überbrückungsfinanzierung”).

Deadline 3^rd call extended from 31 May 2022 to 27 June 2022

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The neuroscience community in Rostock benefits from experts of different fields of science that share knowledge about principles and rules of scientific work. In cooperation with the Graduate Academy of the University of Rostock and CTNR members, the qualification programme bundles this expertise and offers faculty-wide soft skill courses for young scientists. All courses are free of charge and open to all interested scientists.

Soft skill courses of the Qualification Programme 2022

The CTNR community thanks Prof. Lennart Mucke, Director and Senior Investigator at Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease from the University of California, San Francisco for his very fruitful and interesting talk about "Modulators of Neural Network Dysfunction in Alzheimer’s Disease: From APP to Tau and Microglia" within the CTNR Lecture Series on 16 May 2022. 

Based on more than 15 years of joint individual projects in the field of neurology and clinical memory research, the research area neurosciences of the University Medical Center Rostock (Centre for Transdisciplinary Neurosciences Rostock, CTNR) together with the research area "Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson's disease" (MultiPark) of the Faculty of Medicine of the Lund University (Sweden) developed a joint concept for a "United Neuroscience Campus Lund-Rostock" (UNC). Within the UNC, the research field is expanded to include general research into neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's diseases, Parkinson's diseases and stroke. The overarching strategic goals of the initiative are the support of young scientists through exchange programs, internationalization, increasing the visibility of the neuroscientific community and the encouragement of international research cooperation and publications at both locations.

On May 5, 2022, after more than a year of working together on the UNC concept using virtual meetings, the first personal visit to Lund took place. Welcomed with a city tour through the attractive student city of Lund, representatives of both locations then presented the existing organizational and research infrastructures as well as exchange, training and funding programs. On the following day, strategic issues, measures and necessities for the initiation and long-term implementation of the United Neuroscience Campus were explained. The first agreed activities within the UNC include the use of ERASMUS modules (staff mobility, traineeship), the co-supervision of doctoral projects, the mutual announcement and invitation to scientific courses and a scientific conference next autumn in Rostock.

At the end of the two-day visit, the Vice Dean for Budget, Planning and Structure of the University Medical Center Rostock, Prof. Bernd Krause, and the Vice Dean for Internationalization and Recruitment of the Medical Faculty of the University of Lund, Prof. David Gisselsson Nord, as well as the Principal Investigators of the UNC, Prof. Alexander Storch (Neurology, Rostock) and Prof. Per Odin (Neurology, Lund) signed a “Memorandum of Understanding”. This agreement seals the future cooperation between the two locations in the field of neuroscience and sets the starting point for future exciting joint projects and exchange programs that promote young talent within the United Neuroscience Campus Lund-Rostock.

More information about the United Neuroscience Campus Lund - Rostock: www.neurosciencecampus.com

Press release in German.

The CTNR community thanks Prof. Maria Teresa Fiorenza from the Division of Neuroscience of the University of Rome for her interesting talk about "Pathogenic mechanisms of Niemann Pick C disease: altered neuronal and glial cell differentiation largely anticipates overt neurologic dysfunction" within the CTNR Lecture Series on 08 April 2022. 

The CTNR community thanks Prof. Dr. Jan Born from the Institute of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology (University of Tübingen) for his very inspiring talk about "Sleep-dependent formation of memory" within the CTNR Lecture Series on 29th March 2022. The lecture emphasized the importance of sleep for memory transformation during early development.

Via the website https://scienceforukraine.eu offers (including job offers, funding, accommodation) for students and scientists from Ukraine can be listed. Institutes and Departments of the CTNR are encouraged to register open positions.

Funding for new positions can be applied at the German Research Foundation (DFG). It is now expanding its existing funding measures by opening up the Walter Benjamin Programme with the aim of enabling this target group to become integrated in the German research system at any stage of their career (after completing a doctorate). With the option of acquiring a Walter Benjamin position, refugee researchers who have been forced to leave their home country within the last three years are given the opportunity to embark on their own research project. 

The University of Rostock take care of all questions and concerns in German, English, Ukrainian or Russian via uni.hilft{bei}uni-rostock.de. 

The CTNR community thanks Prof. Hummel for his very interessting talk on 24th February 2022 within our Lecture Series. He is supervising of work area and outpatient clinic "Smell and Taste" at the Department of Otorhinolaryngology at the TU Dresden and Head of Interdisciplinary Center "Smell and Taste". The lecture showed how olfactory disorders affect, which forms of olfactory disorders there are, and how olfactory disorders can be diagnosed and treated.

On September 2019, Professor Dr. Frederike Hanke started her work at the Marine Science Center of the University of Rostock. For her research on Robben's visual system, she has a Lichtenberg professorship from the Volkswagen Foundation on the topic "From optic flow to visual orientation and navigation as well as neuroimaging”. The main research area of her working group includes sensory systems, mainly vision, of (semi)aquatic animals from periphery to central processing.

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The organisational needs of the Rostocker Academy for Clinician Scientists are covered by the RACS board. It consists of the speaker and representatives of each scientific area, the non-clinical departments and the RACS members. The CTNR Boards elected the following CTNR members for representing the neuroscience area:

1st representative: Prof. Dr. med. A. Storch (Neurology)
2nd representative: Prof. Dr. med. A. Bertsche (Neuropaediatrics)
Deputy representative: Prof. Dr. med. Dr. med. T. Freiman (Neurosurgery)

The main task of the RACS Board is the recruitment and final evaluation of Clinician Scientists at the University Medicine Rostock.

The CTNR community thanks Prof. Wassilios Meissner for his very excellent talk on 17th January 2022 within our Lecture Series. Wassilios Meissner is professor of Neurology at the Department of Neurology for Neurodegenerative Diseases at the University Hospital Bordeaux and deputy director at the Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases in France. The lecture discussed recent advances in MSA including own research with emphasis on pathogenesis, diagnosis, biomarkers, and treatment development.

With the kind support of a review board, the applicants were assessed as part of the 2. CTNR Medical Scientist Programme. The CTNR Board would like to thank the experts for their cooperation:

• Prof. Dr. Lars Tönges (Department of Neurology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Prof. Dr. med. Björn Falkenburger (Department of Neurology, Dresden University Medical Center)

07 December 2021, 16:00 - 17:00

Fifth meeting of the CTNR members.

Online via Zoom.

Participation only by invitation.

The initiative of a United Neuroscience Campus Lund - Rostock (UNC) was starting with the first virtual scientific workshop on “Key questions and methods in the field of neurodegenerative diseases in Lund and Rostock”, on October 20, 2021, 2 pm – 7 pm.

The goals were to get in contact with researchers from Rostock and Lund, to present and get to know the scientific key questions and methods of both scientific locations. The information will lay the basis for future collaborations and projects.

The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Lund, Prof. Kristina Åkesson and the Dean of the University Medical Centre Rostock, Prof. Emil Reisinger welcomed the participants. The project leader Prof. Alexander Storch (CTNR Speaker) and Prof. Per Odin (Neurology Lund) introduced the initiative. The workshop programme consisted of experimental and clinical key speakers who presented their scientific questions in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. 62 participants from both countries took part online, with six lectures from Rostock and eight from Lund.

Programme and Abstracts

Dr. Henrik Rudolf is a scientist at the Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Ageing Research. His reserach areas are statistical methods in clinical trials, multi-state models and stepped-wedge designs. He also offers a statsitical consultation service for students, doctoral candidates and research assistants.

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The CTNR Neuro Medical Scientist Programme includes the financial support of positions for (non-physician) medical scientists/doctoral candidates with a focus on neurosciences. The financial support is used to give young scientists the opportunity to apply for third-party funds (“Anschubfinanzierung”) or to complete the doctorate (“Überbrückungsfinanzierung”).

Deadline 2. Call: 15 November 2021

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The first CTNR Summer School, on 02 - 04 September 2021, was a successsful platform for the get-to-know and networking of senior and young scientists from Rostock in the field of Neurosciences.

Some researchers of CTNR working groups were trained in neuroanatomy by a two-day long preparation course in Rostock. Following, 38 leader and junior scientists presented together in tandems the current state-of-the-art, their methodologies, applications and on-site technologies on the Summer School location at the hotel in Gremmelin.

Special (virtual) keynote speaker was Dimitri Michael Kullmann FRS FMedSci MAE. He is a professor of neurology at the UCL Institute of Neurology, University College London. The Summer School provided networking tools by oral and poster presentations, discussions and a scientific network activity in the evening.

The best poster was awarded by a project funding amount of 1,000 € to Sarah Joost and Katerina Manzhula from the Insititute of Anatomy for their project about "Exploring an undescribed border structure of the choroid plexus: From three-dimensional macroscopy to ultrastructure". 

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Dr. Marina Boccardi is the Head of the Implementation Neuroscience group, DZNE-Rostock/Greifswald. Her research areas are methodological studies aimed to improve the translation and implementation of neuroscience findings in clinical practice.

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An international consortium led by CTNR member Prof. Andreas Hermann, Head of the Section for Translational Neurodegeneration “Albrecht Kossel”, was able to identify a key mechanism for the development of the disease with the help of European funding (E-Rare). Transferring it to patient care is a task of the Clinician Scientist Dr. Kevin Peikert (photo).

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The CTNR is currently implementing a new international cooperation with the Lund University (Sweden) - the United Neuroscience Campus (UNC) Lund – Rostock – with experts from the Swedish Neuroscience community like Per Odin (Neurology), Angela Cenci Nilsson (Basal Ganglia Pathophysiology) and Oskar Hansson (Clinical Memory Research). The cooperation starts with a connection between the CTNR and the MultiPark (Multidisciplinary research focused on Parkinson´s disease).

The overarching strategic goals of the United Neuroscience Campus Lund - Rostock initiative are the promotion of young researchers, internationalisation, increasing the visibility of the community, and stimulating international collaborative research projects and publications. The planned measures are student/doctoral exchange programmes, bilateral events and special supports.

Prof. Angela Cenci Nilsson is now kick-starting the Lund-Rostock exchange already from this autumn by the offer to host some master students from Rostock in the field of neuropharmacology and neuroscience.

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The reviewers and members of the Senate and Approval Committee for Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) of the German Research Foundation (DFG) approved a second funding period of the Collaborative Research Center 1270 "Electrically Active Implants" – ELAINE. The CRC team, with the participation of CTNR members as PIs of the subprojects C03, C04 and IRTG can continue their research for four more years.

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Scientists discover an important enzyme for therapy controls / New findings enable more individual therapy

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is an inherited disease that leads to progressive muscle wasting. It occurs relatively frequently among the rare diseases. About two percent of the population carries the predisposition. There is no cure, but recently very effective therapies and therefore the possibility that only mild symptoms will occur with early treatment. CTNR member Prof. Andreas Hermann und PD Dr. Christoph Kamm have now found a biomarker, i.e. a measurable biological parameter, which shows the extent of muscle wasting, in a study together with colleagues from Dresden and other university clinics.

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Vaccination tolerance in patients with multiple sclerosis is being researched for the first time

A nationwide study by the German Multiple Sclerosis Society and the Rostock University Medical Center will examine how the Covid-19 vaccination affects the course of MS in patients over the next few months. CTNR member Prof. Dr. Uwe Zettl heads the nationwide study on the tolerability of the Covid 19 vaccination in MS patients.

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"The role of pandemic and individual vulnerability in longitudinal cohorts across the life span: refined models of neurosociobehavioral pathways into substance (ab)use?"

Individual decisions for risky behavior, such as substance consumption, are influenced by neurobehavioral microstates, including impulsivity or maladaptive stress reactivity. These decisions have, yet, also been attributed to socioaffective cues - from macrosocial norms and opportunities, including access routes or private space, to mesosocial factors, including closeness to consuming peers or amount of familial stress. The German Research Foundation (DFG) approved a consortium application under the leadership of Kiel Professor of Medical Psychology and Sociology Frauke Nees, which combines several German longitudinal studies.

The Rostock longitudinal study is the oldest of the participating studies, because it started 50 years ago with the birth of around 300 Rostock children. A video on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Rostock longitudinal study can be found here. The study has been carried out by the CTNR member PD Dr. Olaf Reis, manages and combines data from very different areas of life.

The total application amount is over 1 Mio € for three years, about a third of it are going to the Rostock project.

Our CTNR Neuro Clinicien Scientist Dr. Felix Streckebach published an article about his intersting research project on "Bioresorbierbarer, intrakranieller Stent zur endovaskulären Therapie" in the current edition (May 2021) of the Ärzteblatt Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

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The ALS center at Rostock University Medical Center is a central point of contact for those who are sick in the region. With the support of the European Social Fund and the state government, a project is now being implemented that aims to provide interdisciplinary networked care for all people with ALS in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (MV). Principal investigator and CTNR member Prof. Andreas Hermann (right) and  case manager Sophie Fischer (left) will ensure that patients and their families should be optimally cared for, and regional and supra-regional resources should be consistently improved and used. Up to 200 people currently suffer from the incurable disease in MV.

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CTNR member Michael Kölch, Professor for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in an interview about the effects on the Corona generation and the learning strategies of children in DER SPIEGEL: SPIEGEL PLUS article.

On 18th March, 46 young and senior scientists of the neuroscience community in Rostock attended the CTNR online lecture of the oustanding researcher Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Christian Haass (LMU, DZNE München). The lecture was about:“Microglial modulation of neurodegenerative diseases – innovative therapies or devilish gambling?”

Christian Haass is Professor of Biochemistry and head of the Department of Metabolic Biochemistry at the Adolf-Butenandt Institute (Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich). Since 2009, he is also the speaker of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disorders (DZNE) in Munich. He holds many excellent awards and is leader of outstanding projects, e.g. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Award (DFG), ERC advanced grant, DFG Reinhart Koselleck Project and is ranked as a highly cited researcher (Web of Science). He is i.a. elected member of the Leopoldina, European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) and member of the Society for Neuroscience.

His Division of Biochemistry at the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich is investigating the molecular and cellular mechanisms of neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's and Frontotemporal Dementia. A major focus includes the identification of target molecules, which can be modulated in future therapeutic approaches.

The CTNR thanks Prof. Haass for the excellent and inspiring talk.

Starting in April 2021, Janine Petters will be funded by the CTNR for six months as a Medical Scientist. 

Her research deals with the development and characterization of a patient-specific iPSC-derived cell model system for the copper storage disorder Wilson disease which mainly affects the liver and brain. As a CTNR Medical Scientist, Janine Petters tries to find potential drug candidates and aims to test these substances in her differentiated iPSC-derived liver cell model in order to correct the dysfunctional copper transporter ATP7B in iPSC-derived hepatocytes from Wilson disease patients.

With the kind support of a review board, the applicants were assessed as part of the CTNR Medical Scientist Programme. The CTNR Board would like to thank the experts for their cooperation:

• Prof. Dr. Lars Tönges (Department of Neurology, Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
• Priv.-Doz. Dr. Özgür Onur (Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine and University Hospital Cologne)
• Prof. Dr. med. Björn Falkenburger (Department of Neurology, Dresden University Medical Center)

The CTNR now has a new and more modern logo. It replaces the original logo which stood for the implementation of the CTNR.

According the CTNR bylaws, the term of office of the incumbent CTNR board members ended on November 22, 2020. At the 4^th members meeting on October 30, 2020, the CTNR members elected the following board members for the next period:

• Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Alexander Storch (Dept. of Neurology)
• Deputy Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Rüdiger Köhling (Oscar-Langendorff-Institute of Physiology)
• Prof. Dr. med. Dr. rer. nat. Markus Kipp (Institute of Anatomy)
• PD Dr. rer. nat. Angela Kuhla (Rudolf-Zenker-Institute for Experimental Surgery)
• Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Teipel (Dept. of Psychosomatic and Psychotherapeutic Medicine)

The term of office of the new board begins on November 23, 2020 and ends after three years.

The CTNR Neuro Medical Scientist Programme includes the financial support of positions for (non-physician) medical scientists/doctoral candidates with a focus on neurosciences. The financial support is used to give young scientists the opportunity to apply for third-party funds (“Anschubfinanzierung”) or to complete the doctorate (“Überbrückungsfinanzierung”).

Information, Guidelines and Application

From now on, the CTNR provides the framework for an educational programme for doctoral candidates of CTNR members. Doctoral researchers get the possibility to be supervised by a Thesis Advisory Committee (TAC). The TAC aims to provide guidance for both the doctoral candidate and their supervisors, in order for them to reach a successful end of the project. The CTNR provides a pool of members as potential TAC supervisors.

Information, Guidelines and Templates

On November 2nd, the CTNR is starting a series of seminars for young scientists on "the fundamentals of scientific work for doctoral students in medicine". The aim is to impart basic knowledge and skills in scientific work. In addition, an introduction to the statistical basics will be given. At the end of the course, the young scientists should have acquired the basic knowledge to create their own scientific work. They will learn to select and evaluate literature in order to formulate their research hypotheses based on this, to choose a design that is suitable for the research work and to apply appropriate procedures for evaluating the data. The seminars always take place on Mondays at 5 p.m. at Hörsaal Zentrum für Nervenheilkunde, Gehlsheimer Str. 20, 18147 Rostock. The seminar is hosted by the Forensic Psychiatry.

Please find all information and topics here.

Germany's forensic psychiatry should be better recognized internationally: That is the concern of Prof. Dr. Birgit Völlm, Director of the Clinic for Forensic Psychiatry at the Rostock University Medical Center and member of the CTNR. Now she has the opportunity to put her ideas into practice. She was unanimously elected as the new Chair of the Forensic Section in the World Psychiatric Association. The association has 72 scientific sections and organizes worldwide and regional scientific congresses, publishes the journal with the highest impact factor of psychiatric journals and publishes guidelines and opinions on current issues in psychiatric practice and ethics.

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On October 14th, the 10 Clinician Scientists of the Rostock Academy for Clinician Scientists (RACS) and of the Clinician Scientists Programs of the three scientific priority areas Biomedical Engineering/Biomaterials, Neurosciences and Oncology met the first time on a scientific retreat at the Ostseehotel Dierhagen. In addition to lectures by the young scientists, their evaluations and meetings of the steering committee, a workshop on the subject of research funding and third-party funding applications was held by the CTNR coordinator Virginia Bolowski.

On August 26th, the first CTNR online seminar took place. The virtual lecture on how to write DFG grant proposals (Sachbeihilfe) was given by the coordinator Virginia Bolowski. 48 participants followed the seminar that is part of the CTNR qualification program. The overall aim is to support young scientists by offering a soft skill and training program. The feedback of the attendees was more than positive. The  CTNR qualification program and its regular events can be found here.

“Thank you very much for the wonderful seminar today about submitting a DFG research grant! It was a great overview and also refreshed a lot." (participant)

International team of researchers examines influence on olfactory organ

The CTNR member Prof. Dr. Martin Witt works with colleagues from Zurich and Dresden to check what damage Covid-19 does to the olfactory mucosa of humans. In the study they "report two cases of olfactory neuropathy diagnosed at autopsy in patients with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection".

More information (in German).

The study has now been published in the journal The Lancet and can be found here.

Starting in august 2020, Dr. med. Felix Streckenbach will be a Clinician Scientist of the CTNR Clinician Scientist Program for Neurosciences.

Since 2018, Dr. Streckenbach is a resident at the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology at the University Medical Center Rostock and member of the clinical research group in Neuroradiology. As a Neuro Clinician Scientist, Dr. Streckenbach will work on the “development of a biodegradable stent for intracranial aneurysms”.

The clinical mentor of Dr. Streckenbach is Prof. Dr. med. Marc-André Weber (Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Pediatric Radiology and Neuroradiology) and the scientific mentors are Prof. Dr.-Ing. Nils Grabow and Prof. Dr.-Ing Klaus-Peter Schmitz (Institute for Biomedical Engineering).

November 2019

On 18th November, the CTNR coordinator, Virginia Bolowski, gave a talk about funding opportunities for young scientists in the framework of the CTNR Lecture Series. More than 30 participants were interested in the information about national and international third-party funding bodies and their programs.

November 2019

On 13th November, the CTNR and the Department "Ageing of Individuals and Society" of the Interdisciplinary Faculty organised a stakeholder workshop in the field of neurodegenerative diseases. Affected persons, researchers and other representatives of care and society exchanged experiences and opinions about risks and benefits of participative research.

With the method of a "World Café" the participants worked out how active cooperation should be designed and what kind of research questions could be relevant.

The CTNR offers two Clinician Scientist positions in the Neurosciences for the research protected time of two years within the specialist/subspecialist training time to conduct a theoretical research project. The program consists of an individual clinical, scientific and soft skill educational curriculum under the umbrella of the Rostock Academy for Clinician Scientists (RACS).

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For his research on the detection of proteins in cells and tissues using so-called immunohistochemical techniques the anatomist and CTNR member of the University of Rostock, Prof. Dr. med. med. Martin Witt, was awarded with an honorary doctorate from the Medical University of Poznan in Poland. Immunohistochemistry is a method by which proteins or other structures can be visualized with the help of labeled antibodies. The ceremony took place on June 26, 2019 in the Congress and Teaching Center of the Medical University of Poznan.

The Vice-Rector for Research of the Medical University of Poznan and promoter of the procedure, Prof. Michał Nowicki, justifies the award: "He is a proven expert in the detection of proteins in cells and tissues and a master of image processing. He is particularly interested in the structural and molecular basis for the function of the olfactory system in neurodegenerative diseases. The colleagues in Poznan also benefit from the research stays of the Rostock anatomist Witt, because with his support they were able to write numerous scientific papers. In addition, a unique experimental angiological team (teaching of the arteries, veins and lymph vessels) has been established."

The CTNR congratulates Prof. Witt for the awarding.

On 20th March 2019, the newly initiated CTNR "Lectures of Excellence: Pioneers in Neurosciences" took place for the first time. The Nobel laureate Prof. Nüsslein-Volhard gave a very demonstrative lecture on "The stripes of Zebrafish: Development and evolution of biological aesthetics". About 200 participants visited the lecture in the Aula of the Universities main building and used the opportunity to get in close contact with the excellent scientist.

The Pro-Rector of Research and Transfer of Knowledge of the University of Rostock, Prof. Udo Kragl opend the event with an opening speech and presented Prof. Nüsslein-Volhard with the jubilee medal of the University (Jubiläumstaler).

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Fotos: Thomas Mandt

On 27th February 2019, within the CTNR qualification program, the CTNR member Prof. Olaf Wolkenhauer offered a seminar about how to write successful grants. He talked about the review process and gave useful advices about the grant writing and application process.

64 researchers of the University and University Medicine Rostock took the opportunity to get in close contact with the member of the DFG review board. 

More information about the event.

The scientific coordinator of the CTNR, Virginia Bolowski, initiated successfully the first workshop about the DFG research grant (Sachbeihilfe). The workshop was about the content, structure and submission process of a research grant at the German Research Foundation.

26 participants of various institutes of the University Medical Centre got the possibility to get in touch with this funding instrument by doing practical exercises and interacting with each other.

The workshop is part of the CTNR qualification program to strengthen grant efforts within the University Medical Centre Rostock.