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Research Units (FOR)
In Research Units (FOR), outstanding researchers work together on an overarching research question. Research Units have a duration of four to six years. For further information, please visit the website of the German Research Foundation.
- University of Marburg as Applying Institution
- University of Marburg as Participating Institution
- Completed Research Units
University of Marburg as Applying Institution
FOR 5571: Using clonal oak phytometers to unravel acclimation and adaptation mechanisms of long-lived forest tree holobionts to ecological variations and climate change
Profile Area: Microbiology, Biodiversity, Climate
Funded: since 2023
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Lars Opgenoorth
Additional participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Anke Becker, Prof. Dr. Katrin Heer, Prof. Dr. Robert Junker, Dr. Dirk Zeuss
External participation: Dr. Marie Lara Bouffaud (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung), Professor Dr. Nico Eisenhauer (Universität Leipzig), Dr. Kezia Goldmann (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung), Professor Dr. Martin Gossner (The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research), Dr. Stephanie Jurburg, Ph.D (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung), Dr. Luis Daniel Prada-Salcedo, Ph.D., Dr. Simone Cesarz (Universität Leipzig), Privatdozent Dr. Jürgen Kreuzwieser (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg ), Privatdozent Dr. Mika Tarkka (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung), Professorin Dr. Christiane Werner (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg )
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FOR 5288 - Fast and invisible: Conquering Subsurface Stormflow through an Interdisciplinary Multi-Site Approach (SSF)
Profile Area: Microbiology, Biodiversity, Climate
Funded: since 2022
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Peter Chifflard
External Participation: Dr. Theresa Blume (Deutsches GeoForschungszentrum [GFZ] Potsdam), Prof. Dr. Andreas Hartmann (TU Dresden), Prof. Dr. Stefan Hergarten (Universität Freiburg), Dr. Luisa Hopp (Universität Bayreuth), Prof. Dr. Florian Leese (Universität Duisburg-Essen), Dr. Edoardo Martini (Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung [UFZ] Leipzig), Dr. Christian Reinhardt-Imjela (FU Berlin), Prof. Dr. Markus Weiler (Universität Freiburg)
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FOR 5065 - Energy Landscapes and Structure in Ion Conducting Solids (ELSICS)
Profile Area: Materials, Interfaces, Semiconductors
Funded: since 2021
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Karl-Michael Weitzel
External Participation: Prof. Dr. Michael Vogel (TU Darmstadt), Prof. Dr. Christian Jooß, Prof. Dr. Cynthia Volkert (both Universität Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Philipp Maass (Universität Osnabrück), Prof. Dr. Timo Jacob (Universität Ulm)
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FOR 5046 - Integrated analysis of epithelial SLC26 anion transporters - from molecular structure to pathophysiology
Profile Area: Inflammation, Immunology, Tumor Biology
Funded: since 2020
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Dominik Oliver
External Participation: Prof. Dr. Christoph Falke (FZ Jülich), Prof. Dr. Eric Geertsma (Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Zellbiologie und Genetik, Dresden), Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Lamprecht (Universität Rostock), Prof. Dr. Jan-Philipp Machtens (FZ Jülich), Prof. Dr. Ute Scholl (Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung), Prof. Dr. Ursula Seidler (MH Hannover), Dr. Ilka Wittig (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
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FOR 2730 - Environmental Changes in Biodiversity Hotspot Ecosystems of South Ecuador: RESPonse and feedback effECTs (RESPECT)
Profile Area: Microbiology, Biodiversity, Climate
Funded: since 2018
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Nina Farwig, 1st funding period: Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix
Additional participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Roland Brandl, Dr. Katja Trachte
Participation FOR-Campus: Prof. Dr. Lutz Breuer, Dr. David Windhorst (both Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
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KFO 325 - Clinical relevance of tumor-microenvironment interactions in pancreatic cancer
Profile Area: Inflammation, Immunology, Tumor Biology
Funded: since 2017
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. med. Thomas Mathias Gress
Head: PD Dr. Matthias Lauth
Additional participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Jörg-Walter Bartsch, Prof. Dr. Detlef Klaus Bartsch, Prof. Dr. Stefan Bauer, Prof. Dr. Uta-Maria Bauer, Prof. Dr. Malte Buchholz, Prof. Dr. Wibke E. Diederich, Prof. Dr. Magdalena Huber, Prof. Dr. Petra Ina Pfefferle, Prof. Dr. Elke Pogge von Strandmann, Dr. Katrin Roth, Dr. Emily P. Slater
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FOR 2358 - Mountain Exile Hypothesis: How humans benefited from and re-shaped African high altitude ecosystems during Quarternary climatic changes
Profile Area: Microbiology, Biodiversity, Climate
Funded: since 2016
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Georg Miehe
Additional participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Thomas Nauss, Dr. Lars Opgenoorth
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FOR 2497 - Pemphigus - from Pathogenesis to Therapeutics (Pegasus)
Funded: since 2016
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. med. Michael Hertl
Additional participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. med. Rüdiger Eming, Prof. Dr. med. Holger Garn, Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Pfützner, Dr. rer. nat. Ansgar Schmidt
Homepage: coming soon
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FOR 2107 - Neurobiology of Affective Disorders: A Translational Perspective on Brain Structure and Function
Profile Area: Mind, Brain, Behavior
Funded: since 2014
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. med. Tilo Kircher
Additional participation University of Marburg: since 2016 Prof. Dr. Dr. Petra Ina Pfefferle, Prof. Dr. med. Harald Renz, Prof. Dr. Holger Garn, Prof. Dr. Rainer Schwarting, Dr. Markus Wöhr, apl. Prof. Dr. Axel Krug, Prof. Dr. Andreas Jansen, Prof. Dr. Carsten Culmsee. Prof. Dr. Igor Nenadić
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University of Marburg as Participating Institution
FOR 5321 - Human Rights Discourse in Migration Societies (MeDiMi)
Profile Area: Security, Order, Conflict
Funded: since 2022
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Bast (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen)
Participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Susanne Buckley-Zistel, Prof. Dr. Dariuš Zifonun
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FOR 5182 - Controversial discourses: Language history as contemporary history since 1990
Profile Area: Security, Order, Conflict
Funded: since 2022
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Martin Wengeler (Universität Trier)
Participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Constanze Spieß
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FOR 5207 - Reassembly of species interaction networks – Resistance, resilience and functional recovery of a rainforest ecosystem
Profile Area: Microbiology, Biodiversity, Climate
Funded: since 2021
Applying Instituion: Technische Universität Darmstadt
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Nico Blüthgen
Participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Nina Farwig
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FOR 3000 - Ecology and Evolution of Intraspecific Chemodiversity in Plants
Profile Area: Microbiology, Biodiversity, Climate
Funded: since 2020
Applying institution: Universität Bielefeld
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Caroline Müller
Participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Robert Junker
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FOR 5064 - The role of nature for human well-being in the Kilimanjaro Social-Ecological System (Kili-SES)
Profile Area: Microbiology, Biodiversity, Climate
Funded: since 2020
Applying institution: Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Gaese
Participation University of Marburg: since 2022: Prof. Dr. Thomas Nauß
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FOR 2824 - Amorphous Molecular Materials with Extreme Non‐Linear Optical Properties
Profile Area: Materials, Interfaces, Semiconductors
Funded: since 2019
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Stefanie Dehnen (Karlsruher Institut für Technologie)
Participation University of Marburg: apl.-Prof. Dr. W.-C. Pilgrim, Prof. Dr. Kerstin Volz, Prof. Dr. Marina Gerhard
Participation Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen: Prof. Dr. Sangam Chatterjee, Jun.-Prof. Dr. Doreen Mollenhauer, Prof. Dr. Simone Sanna, Prof. Dr. Peter R. Schreiner
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FOR 2863 - Metrology for THz Communications
Profile Area: Materials, Interfaces, Semiconductors
Funded: since 2019
Applying institution: Technische Universität Braunschweig
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Kürner
Participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Martin Koch
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KFO 309 - Virus-induced Lung Injury: Pathobiology and Novel Therapeutic Strategies
Profile Area: Inflammation, Immunology, Tumor Biology
Funded: since 2016
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. med. Werner Seeger, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC)
Participation: Prof. Dr. Stephan Becker, Prof. Dr. Stefan Bauer, Prof. Dr. Eva Böttcher-Friebertshäuser
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FOR 2288 - Journal Literature
Profile Area: Security, Order, Conflict
Funded: since 2016
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Nicola Kaminski (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)
Participation: Prof. Dr. Jens Ruchatz (Vice-Spokesperson), Prof. Dr. Volker Mergenthaler
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Completed Research Units
FOR 2038 - Nanopatterned Organic Matrices in Biological Silica Mineralisation
Funded: 2014 - 2022
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Nils Kröger (TU Dresden)
Participation: Prof. Dr. Armin Geyer, from 2017 Prof. Dr. Uwe Gallus Maier
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FOR 1847 - The Physiology of Distributed Computing Underlying Higher Brain Functions in Non-Human Primates
Funded: 2013 - 2022
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Thier (Eberhard Karls-Universität Tübingen)
Participation: Prof. Dr. Frank Bremmer
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KFO 286 - Exploiting Defects in the DNA Damage Response for the Treatment of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia
Funded: 2013 - 2022, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Michael Hallek (Universitätsklinikum Köln), Participation: Prof. Dr. Elke Pogge von Strandmann (2013-2017), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 1807 - Advanced Computational Methods for Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems
Funded: 2013 - 2021
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Fakher Fakhry Assaad (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg)
Participation: Prof. Dr. Reinhard M. Noack
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FOR 1756 - Functional Dynamics of Cell Contacts in Cellular Assemblies and Migratory Cells
Funded: 2011 - 2019
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jörg Großhans (Universitätsmedizin Göttingen)
Participation: Prof. Dr. Annette Borchers
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FOR 1581 - Extinction Learning: Behavioural, Neural and Clinical Mechanisms
Funded: 2011 - 2019, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Onur Güntürkün (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Participation: Prof. Dr. Harald Lachnit (2011-2018), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 1328 - Expectation and Conditioning as Basic Processes of the Placebo and Nocebo Response
Funded: 2010-2021
Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Winfried Rief (University of Marburg)
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FOR 1246 - Kilimanjaro ecosystems under global change: Linking biodiversity, biotic interactions and biogeochemical ecosystem processes
Funded: 2010 - 2020, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Katrin Böhning-Graese (Senckenberg Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum)
Participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Roland Brandl, since 2016 Prof. Dr. Thomas Nauss, Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 1334 - Determinants of Polarized Growth and Development in Filamentous Fungi
Funded: 2010 - 2019, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Reinhard Fischer (Universität Karlsruhe), Participation:Prof. Dr. Michael Bölker (2010-2017), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
KFO 219 - Basal-Ganglia-Cortex-Loops: Mechanisms of Pathological Interactions and Therapeutic Modulation
Funded: 2010 - 2019, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Gereon Rudolf Fink (Universitätsklinikum Köln), Participation University of Marburg since 2016: Prof. Dr. Lars Timmermann (Leader), DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 1394 - Nonlinear response to probe vitrification
Funded: 2010 - 2018, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Matthias Fuchs (Universität Konstanz), Participation: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Roling (2010-2014), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 1261 - Specific light driven reactions in unicellular model algae
Funded: 2009- 2018, Applying institution: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Maria Mittag, Participation University of Marburg: Prof. Dr. Lars-Oliver Essen (since 2013), DFG-Datenbank GEPRIS
FOR 1182 - Transport and Structure Formation in Turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard, Taylor-Couette and Pipe Flows near Solid Walls
Funded: 2009 - 2017, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Bruno Eckhardt, Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 929 - Dynamics of Bacterial Membrane Proteins
Funded: 2008 - 2017, Applying institution:University of Marburg, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Peter Graumann, Additional participation: Prof. Dr. Victor Sourjik, Max Planck Institut for Terrestrial Microbiology Marburg (2008-2016), DFG-data base GEPRIS
KFO 181 - Male factor infertility due to impaired spermatogenesis
Funded: 2008 - 2015, Applying institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Weidner, Participation: Prof. (i. R.) Renate Renkawitz-Pohl (2011-2015), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 1086 - K2P-Channels - From Molecules to Physiology and Pathophysiology
Funded: 2008 - 2015, Applying institution: University of Marburg, Spokesperson: Prof. em. Jürgen Daut, Additional participation: Prof. Dr. Dominik Oliver (2011-2016), Prof. Dr. Niels Decher (2008-2016), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
KFO 210 - Genetics of Drug Resistance in Cancer
Funded: 2008 - 2015, Applying institution: University of Marburg, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Neubauer, Head: Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Burchert, Additional participation: Prof. Dr. Thorsten Stiewe (2008-2015), PD Dr. med. Cornelia Brendel (2008-2015), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 816 - Biodiversity and Sustainable Management of a Megadiverse Mountain Ecosystem in Southern Ecuador
Funded: 2007 - 2018, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix (University of Marburg), Additional participation: Prof. Dr. Thomas Nauss (2007-2016), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 942 - WNT signalling in development and tumor progression
Funded: 2007 - 2014, Applying insituttion: Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Lorenz Trümper, Participation University of Marburg since 2012: Prof. Dr. Annette Borchers, DFG-Datenbank GEPRIS
FOR 806 - Interfering with intracellular protein-protein interactions - probing protein functions with small molecules
Funded: 2007-2014, Spokespeople: Prof. Dr. Christian Freund (FU Berlin), Professor Dr. Hartmut Oschkinat (FMP), Participation University of Marburg: since 2010 Prof. Dr. Gerhard Klebe, DFG-Datenbank GEPRIS
FOR 760 - Scattering systems with complex dynamics
Funded: 2007 - 2013, Applying institution: Technische Universität Dresden, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Roland Ketzmerick, Participation: Prof. em. Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann (2007-2014), DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 742 - Grammar and Processing of Verbal Arguments
Funded: 2006 - 2012, Applying institution: Universität Leipzig, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Gereon Müller, Participation: Prof. Dr. Ina Bornkessel-Schlesewsky (2006-2013), Prof. Dr. Michael Cysouw (2009-2012), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 630 - Biological Function of Organometallic Compounds
Funded: 2006 - 2012, Applying institution: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Nils Metzler-Nolte, Participation: Prof. Dr. Eric Leif Meggers (2009-2013), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 627 - Polymeric Nano-carriers for Pulmonary Drug Delivery
Funded: 2006 - 2010, Applying institution: University of Marburg, Spokesperson: Prof. (i. R.) Thomas Kissel, Additional participation: Prof. Dr. Udo Bakowsky (2006-2010), Prof. em. Joachim H. Wendorff (2006-2010), Prof. Dr. Andreas Greiner (2006-2010), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 560 - Perception and Action
Funded: 2004 - 2011, Applying institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Karl Gegenfurtner, Participation: Prof. Dr. Frank Bremmer (2004-2011), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
KFO 125 - Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Syndrome (ADHD): Molecular Pathogenesis and Endophenotypes in the Course of Treatment
Funded: 2004-2011, Applying institution: Universitätsklinikum Würzburg, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andreas Warnke, Participation University of Marburg: since 2005 Prof. Dr. Helmut Schäfer, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 531 - Chromatin Mediated Biological Decisions
Funded: 2004 - 2010, Applying institution: Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Rainer Renkawitz, Participation: Prof. Dr. Alexander Brehm (2007-2010), Prof. (i. R.) Renate Renkawitz-Pohl (2004-2011), Prof. Dr. Uta-Maria Bauer (2004-2011), DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 526 - Blue-light Sensitive Photoreceptors
Funded: 2004 - 2010, Applying institution: Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Peter Hegemann, Participation: Prof. Dr. Alfred Batschauer (2004-2011), DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 495 - Bio/Chemical Hybridcompounds
Funded: 2003 - 2009, Applying institution: University of Marburg, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Mohamed Marahiel, Additional Participation: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Klebe (2006-2011), Prof. Dr. Ulrich Koert (2006-2011), Prof. Dr. Udo Bakowsky (2006-2010), Prof. Dr. Lars Oliver Essen (2003-2010), Prof. Dr. Norbert Hampp (2003-2009), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 485 - Quantum Optics in Semiconductor Nanostructures
Funded: 2002 - 2008, Applying institution: Universität Rostock, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Heinrich Stolz, Participation: Prof. Dr. Mackillo Kira (2005-2010), Prof. Dr. Stephan Koch (2002-2010), DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 475 - Formation and Stability of beta-Sheets
Funded: 2002 - 2008, Applying institution: Universität Potsdam, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Robert Seckler, Participation: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Koert (2002-2010), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 483 - Metastable Compound Semiconductor Systems and Heterostructures
Profile Area: Materials, Interfaces, Semiconductors
Funded: 2002 - 2008, Applying institution: University of Marburg, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Stolz, Additional participation: Prof. (i. R.) Wolfgang Rühle (2002-2013), Prof. Dr. Kerstin Volz (2002-2011), Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heimbrodt (2002-2011), Prof. Dr. Stephan Koch (2002-2009), DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 423 - Genetic Epidemiology and Medical Genetics of Complex Diseases
Funded: 2001 - 2007, Applying institution: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Max Peter Baur, Participation: Prof. Dr. Konstantin Strauch (2001-2008), DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 402 - Functionality in a Tropical Mountain Forest: Diversity, Dynamic Processes and Utilization
Potentials under Ecosystem Perspectives
Profile Area: Microbiology, Biodiversity, Climate
Funded: 2001 - 2007, Applying institution: Universität Bayreuth, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Erwin Beck, Participation: Prof. Dr. Jörg Bendix (2001-2009), Homepage, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 434 - Oligosaccharide and DNA Chips - Recognition of Secondary Gene Products
Funded: 2001 - 2007, Applying institution: Universität Konstanz, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Andreas Marx, Participation: Prof. Dr. Armin Geyer (2001-2009), DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 341 - Mechanismen und Pathomechanismen der vaskulären Regulation
Funded: 1999-2006, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Martin Paul, Participation Universtiy of Marburg since 2004: Prof. Dr. Joachim Hoyer, DFG-data base GEPRIS
FOR 254 - Dynamik kognitiver Repräsentationen
Funded: 1996 - 2005, Applying institution: Universität Hamburg, Spokesperson: Prof. Dr. Frank Rösler, Participation: Prof. Dr. Richard Wiese (2000-2003), Prof. Dr. Rainer Schwarting (2000-2005), DFG-data base GEPRIS