Current News
Here you will find all the press releases and news of the Cluster of Excellence Inflammation at Interfaces at a glance.
Academy of Excellence
In the course of the reorganization of the university medicine of Schleswig-Holstein the Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck declared to found a joint Academy of Excellence. Read More…
Three new risk genes for atopic dermatitis identified
Scientists at the Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH), Kiel Campus, Cluster of Excellence “Inflammation at Interfaces” and Kiel University (CAU) have succeeded, in collaboration with researchers from Europe, North America and Australia, in identifying three gene variants that increase the risk of atopic dermatitis. The findings of this largest ever genetic study of atopic dermatitis, in which more than 10,000 patients and 40,000 healthy individuals from 26 cohorts were examined, have now been published on the website of Nature Genetics: http://www.nature.com/ng/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ng.1017.html Read More…
MSc in Medical Research
The new Master's Program Medical Life Sciences of the Kiel University was accredited in October and will start in the summer semester 2012. Read More…
DFG funds Research Training Group “Genes, Environment and Inflammation”
The German Research Foundation (DFG) funds the Research Training Group “Genes, Environment and Inflammation” as a collaberation of Kiel University (CAU) and the University of Lübeck Read More…
The Gene FUT2 influences the intestinal flora and is a factor in Crohn’s disease.
Risk genes and bacteria play an important role in the susceptibility to intestinal diseases such as Crohn’s disease. Little is so far known about how the two factors influence each other.New insight into this interaction between genotype and intestinal flora has been won by John Baines and his colleagues of the Inflammation Research Excellence Cluster. Read More…
DFG funded: UKSH researchers at the Kiel campus receive a mass spectrometer of the highest standard
The German Research Foundation (DFG) has equipped the medical faculty of Kiel University (CAU) and the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) with innovative high technology as part of the initiative “Imaging Mass Spectrometry in the Life Sciences“. Read More…
Mites with a considerable impact
Many medical specialists dream of a simple blood test that allows the detection of early cancer or other serious diseases. In search of such a test, researchers have now taken a big step forward. Read More…
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft