Third-Party Funding and Research Associations

The diverse research projects at the IfMB are supported and made possible by numerous research associations and third-party funding. Some researchers are also supported and funded by individual fellowships.

Research Associations

2018 - 2024 DFG SPP 2141 - CRISPR-Cas beyond defense (RG Endesfelder)

2020 - 2023 BMBF-Cooperation BaPro (RG Deppenmeier)

2021 - 2024 BMBF-Cooperation IMPRES 2 (RG Deppenmeier)

2022 - 2023 EMA Cooperation GiTox
Endogenous formation of nitrosamines from drug substance in the gut (RG Deppenmeier)

2023-2027 EFSA Cooperation ADME4NGRA
Absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion models and databases for next generation risk assessment of chemicals (RG Deppenmeier)

Third-party funded Projects

2023 - 2028 NRW Returning Scholars Programme - Building a Junior Research Group: Programme to promote the return of highly qualified young researchers from abroad (RG Scherer)

Since 2019 DFG research grant - New lipoate binding proteins and their role in sulfur oxidation (RG Dahl)

Since 2016 DFG research grant - A new way of sulfur oxidation: The heterodisulfide reductase-like system (RG Dahl)

2024 - 2025: DATIpilot Innovationsprint-Sweethoven Biotech(RG Hövels)

Since 2023 DFG research grant - Bacterial lipoate synthesis: Novel enzymes, unusual substrates and new evolutionary perspectives (RG Dahl)

Accepted October 2024
DFG research grant - chloroplast protein import: Exploring Transit Peptides through Photosynthetic Restoration in Chlamydomonas (AG Caspari)

Fellowships

2022 - 2024 Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Postdocs
Koen Martens (RG Endesfelder)

2022 - 2025 Add-on Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Life Science
Laura Weber (RG Endesfelder)

2020 - 2023 Doctoral Scholarship Studienstiftung
Tomohisa Sebastian Tanabe (RG Dahl)

2019 - 2023 Doctoral Scholarship
Jingjing Li (RG Dahl)