Collaborative Research Centers funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) are joint projects, in which scientists work together over the boundaries of their respective disciplines, faculties and universities in addition to excellent scientific research programs .

The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) is currently conducting research in four different collaborative research centers (SFBs).

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SFB 1192 "Immune mediated Glomerular Disease"

Speaker: Prof. Dr. U. Panzer, Prof. Dr. T Huber, both UKE, III. Department of Medicine

Duration: since 2016

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SFB 1328 Adenine Nucleotides in Immunity and Inflammation

Speaker: Prof. Andreas Guse (UKE), Co-speaker: Prof. Chris Meier (UHH)

Duration: since 2018

Moreover, the UKE is substantially involved in two further Collaborative Research Centers (SFB) and two Transregio Collaborative Research Centres (TRR) :

BATenergy

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CRC/Transregio 333 Brown and Beige Fat - Organ Crosstalk, Signaling and Energetic

Speaker: Prof. Alexander Pfeifer (Universität Bonn)
Co-Speaker: Prof. Jörg Heeren (UKE), Prof. Henriette Uhlenhaut (TUM)

Duration: since 2022

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SFB-TR 289 "Treatment Expectation"

Participation of UKE: Subproject A03 (Prof. Dr. Michael Rose), Subproject A06 (PD Dr. Stefanie Brassen), Subproject A13 (PD Dr. Regine Klinger)
Duration: Since 2020

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SFB - TR 169: Cross modal Learning: Adaptivity, Prediction and Interaction

Spokesman universities: University of Hamburg and Tsinghua University Beijing

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Jianwei Zhang, Prof. Dr. Fuchun Sun

Duration: since 2016

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SFB 1035 – "Kontrolle von Proteinfunktion durch konformationelles Schalten"

Participation of UKE: subproject B05 (Prof. Dr. Aymelt Itzen)

Duration: since 2012

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SFB 1286 "Quantitative Synaptology"

Participation of UKE: Subproject-Manager: Prof. Dr. Stefan Bonn
Duration: since 2017