Our senior MD and PhD students had the opportunity to participate in a grant writing exercise in order to develop the skills needed to prepare professional, competitive, and successful grant proposals. They had to pick a topic of their choice - related to their MD or PhD projects, e.g. additional experiments or a side project - and write a structured, concise, and clear grant application (4 pages, max. 2000€ budget).
The students put a lot of effort into this exercise and submitted many interesting and thoughtful grant applications. The proposals were reviewed (written reviews) by their peers and a reviewing committee. Afterwards, the students had to present and "sell" their ideas in form of an elevator pitch.
We are happy to announce the awardees of the 2000 € Grant Writing Challenge:
- Michael Gerckens "Analysis of extracellular matrix deposition in human ex-vivo tissue culture slices for antifibrotic drug validation"
- Chaido Ori "Direct differentiation of Pluripotent Stem Cells into Lung Progenitor cells - Could a single key transcription regulator be enough?"
- Thomas Meul "Investigating the immunoproteasome as a signaling hub between dysfunctional mitochondria and MHC I antigen presentation in the absence of intracellular infections"
- Mario Pepe "Lung adenocarcinoma prognosis : how to rock clinical risk assessment, lead new biomarkers discovery and drug development with a single move"
- Stefanie Weiß "A new therapeutic approach in ANCA-associated vasculitis: Blocking the autoantigen Proteinase 3"
- Mehwish Ishaque "STEP TOWARDS NANOMEDICINE: Differential engulfment of nanoparticles by distinct phenotypes of Macrophages M1 and M2"
Congratulations!
Awardees will receive a budget of 2000 € to accomplish their planned experiments.