IFIB – Interfakultäres Institut für Biochemie

News archive

  • Congratulations to Daniel Stehle on his Travel Award from the Elisabeth und Franz Knoop-Stiftung. Daniel has used his award money to visit the laboratory of Professor Wolfgang Weninger at the Centenary Institute in Sydney, Australia. For more information, see  IFIB news article.
  • We are happy to share good news for Michael Böttcher. He received a fellowship of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
  • Robert Feil was ranked, once again, among the TOP 25 lecturers in Human Medicine during summer term 2018 and winter term 2018/2019.
  • Congratulations to Frank Regler! He was awarded with the prize for the best presentation of the IFIB PhD Retreat 2019 in Freudenstadt.
  • Members of the Feil Lab and incoming PhD students of the GRK 2381 will present cGMP research during TÜFFF (Tübinger Fenster für Forschung) on 24 May 2019 at "Hörsaalzentrum Morgenstelle". We are looking forward to meeting you there!
     
  • We are happy to announce that the DFG will fund a Research Training Group Tübingen-Boston on "cGMP: From Bedside to Bench". More information in English or German.
     
  • Antilock brake system in arteries protects against heart attack (Press Release)
     
  • Congratulations to Susanne Feil! She attracted considerable funding from the EU/BMBF for an international project on atherosclerosis research. For more information, see news article in English or German. (english news article; deutsche Version auf attempto online)
     
  • Michael Paolillo was awarded the prize for the best presentation at the IFIB PhD Retreat 2018. Congratulations, Michael!
     
  • Robert and Susanne Feil, together with Bernd Pichler (Werner Siemens Imaging Center), were awarded with the Eberle Innovation Prize 2017 for the development of a method for non-invasive visualisation of specific cell populations in mice using positron emission tomography (PET). Congratulations, Robert and Susanne! (Press Release)
     
  • Congratulations to Michael Paolillo on his Travel Award from the Elisabeth und Franz Knoop-Stiftung. Michael will use his award money for a collaboration between Tübingen University and the University of California San Diego.
     
  • Cell marking opens up a window into the body (Press Release)
     
  • Robert Feil received a Teaching Award from the students of Human Medicine. He was ranked among the TOP 25 lecturers during summer term 2016 and winter term 2016/2017.
     
  • Markus Wolters has received a grant of the University of Tübingen Program for the Promotion of Junior Researchers for his project "Comparative real-time analysis of cGMP signals linked to degeneration and regeneration of the eye and ear". Congratulations, Markus! Link to News Article
     
  • We are pleased to announce that Susanne Feil has received a DFG grant to initiate an international collaboration with Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. The project is entitled "Translational aspects of cardiovascular cGMP signaling".
     
  • Congratulations to Susanne Feil and Martin Thunemann! They won a poster prize at the 2nd German Pharm-Tox Summit (March 6-9 2017, Heidelberg, Germany) for their poster entitled "Transgenic mice for noninvasive visualization of specific cell populations in health, disease, and in response to pharmacotherapy".
     
  • Robert Feil received a Teaching Award from the students of Human Medicine. He was ranked among the TOP 25 lecturers during summer term 2015 and winter term 2015/2016.
     
  • Virility Drug May Boost Skin Cancer (Press Release)
     
  • We are pleased to announce that Martin Thunemann has received the "Preis für Biochemie an der Universität Tübingen 2015" (together with Bärbel Blaum, IFIB) for his work "Visualization of biochemical processes in mammals". Our sincere congratulations, Martin! This prize is awarded to excellent junior biochemists by the Elisabeth und Franz Knoop-Stiftung. Read Martin's project summary or Robert's laudatory speech.
  • Congratulations to Lai Wen! He won the Young Investigator Award of the 7th International Conference on cGMP, June 19-21 2015 in Trier, Germany. His presentation had the title "Real-time Imaging of cGMP signals in platelets".
  • Lai Wen has received a Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds travel grant to conduct collaborative research in the USA. Congratulations!
  • We are proud to announce that Martin Thunemann and Lai Wen have won the Rudolf-Buchheim-Prize for their work "Transgenic Mice for cGMP Imaging". Congratulations!
  • Congratulations to Markus Milde! Markus has been selected to participate in a DFG Workshop for Early Career Investigators ("DFG-Nachwuchsakademie") on "Neurosensory Systems - Protection – Regeneration – Restitution".
  • A New Look at Heart Disease (News Article)
  • A Sink for Signals (News Article)
  • Robert Feil received the Teaching Award from the master students of the Graduate School of Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience.
  • Biochemistry: Now Live and in Color (News Article)
  • Congratulations to Lai Wen and Martin Thunemann! They won the poster prize of the 6th International Conference on cGMP, June 28-30 2013 in Erfurt, Germany. The poster has the title "Analysis of cGMP signalling with transgenic mice expressing FRET-based cGMP sensors".
  • The DFG funds the Research Unit FOR 2060 "cGMP Signalling in Cell Growth and Survival", Speaker: Prof. Dr. Robert Feil, since 2013 [Press Release]. Find further information on http://www.cyclic-gmp.de/.
  • Raghavan Vallur received a PhD fellowship from the DZNE (Deutsches Zentrum für Neurodegenerative Erkrankungen, Bonn) in 2010. Congratulation to Raghavan!
  • The MoBBEL Prize for the best Diploma Thesis in 2009 has been awarded to Robert Gnügge for his thesis "Influence of oxidative stress on the structure and activity of cGMP-dependent protein kinase type I". Congrats to Robert!