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Breaking news: we are proud to announce that one of the principal investigators of the TRR186 has been awarded the prestigious Ernst Schering Prize 2025.
Prof. Volker Haucke, Director at the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) and Professor of Molecular Pharmacology at Freie Universität Berlin, has been named the recipient of the Ernst Schering Prize 2025. This science award honors his groundbreaking discoveries on the function of signaling lipids, which control the cellular responses to messengers, hormones, and nutrients, thereby shaping central processes in cell communication. His work paves the way for new therapeutic strategies in stroke, neurological disorders, and cancer.
The award ceremony will take place on 24 November 2025 in Berlin.
Link to Press Release: https://leibniz-fmp.de/newsroom/news/detail/volker-haucke-receives-the-ernst-schering-prize-2025
About the Ernst Schering Prize
The Ernst Schering Prize, endowed with 50.000 euros and presented by the Schering Stiftung (Schering Foundation), is one of Germany’s leading awards for outstanding basic research in the life sciences and chemistry. It honors discoveries that reshape fundamental understanding and open pathways toward medical or technological advances. The prize recognizes work of broad scientific impact and translational potential, making it a key marker of excellence in European biomedical research
Text: Francesco Cannizzaro
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Nevan Krogan, head of the Institute for Quantitative Biosciences at the University of California, San Francisco (USA) will be an Einstein Visiting Fellow in collaboration with the group of Christian Freund, at the FU Berlin.
For further information please see press release.
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Volker Haucke has been awarded the prestige "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize" from the German Research Foundation 2025.
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Cecilia Clementi was awarded the Order of Merit "Star of Italy" of the Republic of Italy on November 19th.
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DFG grants the third funding period of the Collaborative Research Centre SFB/TRR 186 Berlin-Heidelberg.
With the third funding period,TRR 186 will be supported by the DFG for a total of 12 years.
For more information from DFG, please see hier.
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Britta Brügger was awarded a BMBF grant for global and spatial lipidomics as part of the LINC programme with researchers from Münster, Essen, Heidelberg and Leipzig
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Effective July 1, 2022, Christian Freund has taken over the role as chair of SFB/TRR 186. After six years being the chair of TRR 186, Walter Nickel will continue to serve as vice chair. Together with the TRR 186 steering committee, a key aspect of the next 12 months will be to develop the application for a third funding period of the research consortium.
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Effective January 1, 2022, Joachim Moser von Filseck has been named an associated member of SFB/TRR 186. Joachim is a new DFG Emmy Noether junior group leader at Heidelberg University Biochemistry Center and will contribute a project to the consortium’s application for a third funding period of TRR 186.
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