Funded Projects

01/2005 – 12/2005	Orphan Pathways for the Biosynthesis of Natural Products in Marine Cyanobacteria DFG-Fellowship GR 2673/1-1
01/2009 - 12/2011	Post-Genomic Strategies for New Antibiotic Drugs and Targets DFG-Project GR 2673/2-1 within the frame of the DFG Research Unit 854 (Speaker Prof. Sahl, University of Bonn) Genomic mining for antimicrobial lipopeptides
10/2012 - 12/2016	Post-Genomic Strategies for New Antibiotic Drugs and Targets DFG-Project GR 2673/2-2 within the frame of the DFG Research Unit 854 (Speaker Prof. Sahl, University of Bonn) Genomic mining for antimicrobial lipopeptides and studies on their biosynthesis
03/2015 - 08/2018	NeBrasCa – Next Generation Immunosuppressants: Brasilicardin synthesized by Nocardia spp. ERA-IB-5 Project FKZ:031A568A (coordinator and PI Prof. Dr. Harald Gross / Co-PI: JProf. Dr. Pierre Koch) see publication in SciTech Europa 2018
06/2015 – 08/2018	NAbaUnAK – Isolation of New Antibiotics from Unknown Actinomycetes BMBF Project FKZ: 16GW0125 within the frame of the ´Biodiversity and Health´ program (PI Prof. Dr. Harald Gross)
01/2016 - 02/2019	Antibiotics that target specifically Pseudomonads DZIF-Project TTU 09.813 (PI Prof. Dr. Harald Gross / Co-PI: PD Dr. Bertolt Gust / contributing Scientist Prof. Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt) http://www.dzif.de/en/research/novel_antiinfectives/
01/2017 – 12/2019	TacroDrugs - Streptomyces-based cell factories for the production of tacrologues drugs ERA-IB-7 Project FZK:031B0269A (PI Prof. Dr. Harald Gross / Co-PI: PD Dr. Bertolt Gust)
06/2018- 12/2021	BestBioSurf - Production of eco-friendly biosurfactants using biotechnology and synthetic biology ERA CoBioTech Project FKZ: 031B0631 (PI: Prof. Dr. Harald Gross / Co-PI: PD Dr. Gust) https://www.cobiotech.eu/funded-projects/1st-call/bestbiosurf
03/2019 - 02/2021	Antibiotics that target specifically Pseudomonads DZIF-Project TTU 09.820 (PI Prof. Dr. Harald Gross / Co-PI: PD Dr. Bertolt Gust / contributing Scientist: Prof. Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt)
07/2019 – 06/2024	Recognition Mechanisms of Guanidine-containing Lipopeptide Antibiotics for cell wall precursor targets DFG-Project -ID 398967434 —TRR261 (Subproject A9 - PIs: Prof. Dr. Harald Gross & Prof. Dr. Tanja Schneider) within the frame of the DFG Transregional Collaborative Research Centre (TR-CRC) 261 ´Cellular Mechanisms of Antibiotic Action and Production – ANTIBIOTIC CellMAP´ located at the universities of Bonn and Tuebingen (Spokesperson: Prof. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, University of Tuebingen) https://trr261.de
01/2021 - 12/2025	PAFAP - Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Focused Antiinfectives Pipeline DZIF-Project TTU 09.825 coordinator-team: Prof. Dr. Harald Gross and Prof. Alexander Titz contributing scientists: Prof. Dr. Mark Brönstrup, Prof. Dr. Anna Hirsch, Prof. Dr. Marc Stadler, Prof. Dr. Rolf Müller, Prof. Dr. Ralph Holl, Prof. Dr. Tanja Schneider, PD Dr. Bertolt Gust, Prof. Dr. Heike Brötz-Oesterhelt, Prof. Dr. Silke Peter, Dr. Katharina Rox, Prof. Dr. Christian Ducho
11/2024- 11/2028	EXPLORA - Unlocking the Hidden Treasures of Aquatic Extremophiles: sustainable development of industrially relevant novel active biomolecules HORIZON Europe GA 101181841 (PI: Prof. Dr. Harald Gross)

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