The winners of this year's Grant Writing Challenge as part of the Advanced Scientific Training Module are
- Natalie Fischhaber (Michler Lab, LMU Klinikum),(Stöger Lab, LHI), From Bench to Breath: Linker Optimization for Clinical Translation of Inhalable siRNA (OPTILINK)
- Sai Rama Sridatta Prakki (Schiller Lab, PRM), Plasticity Unforeseen: Loss of PTK7/SOX4 in human fibrotic lung slices drives
Pulmonary Epithelial AT2 Reprogramming to PNEC cells (PULP-in-PEAR) - Lei Theilacker (Yildirim-Conlon Lab, LHI), Iron-laden Macrophages (iron-macs) as potential biomarkers for chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD)
Each third-year doctoral candidate chose a topic that was related, but not identical with their Ph.D. project and wrote a grant proposal. These proposals were then reviewed by three peers each and by the Research School Faculty (Roxana Wasnick, Theodore Kapellos, Maja Funk, Markus Diefenbacher, Markus Rehberg, Aicha Jeridi, Malte Lücken). In an Elevator Pitch Meeting, the doctoral candidates presented their ideas.
The winners will be able to order 2000 Euros worth of consumables for their proposed projects, thanks to the DZL, which hereby is gratefully acknowledged.
Congratulations!