On behalf of the Dean, we would like to invite you to the two following events:

• 4th Jung-Symposium „Excellence in human medicine 2024“, 03/05/2024
  Come and join the symposium in presence in the Ian K. Karan auditorium, Campus Teaching, N55, or watch the presentations from 13:00 via livestream. Metabolism researcher Professor Dr phil. Rudolf Zechner, endocrinologist Professor Dr med. Jens Brüning, cardiologist Dr med. Christine Maria Poch and neurologist Dr med. Maximilian U. Friedrich will provide exciting insights into their research findings and be available to answer questions. The symposium will be held in English and participation is free of charge. Further information and free registration for the Jung Symposium 2024 can be found here.
• Save the date: Prof. Tom Rapoport, “How protein cross membranes”, N30 lecture hall 24/05/2024, 2 PM
  Prof. Tom Rapoport (Harvard Medical School, Boston) will give a talk on occasion of the naming of the W30 lecture hall after Ingeborg Syllm-Rapoport.

Research careers and EU funding: from fellowships to coordinated EU projects, 02/05/2024
As part of the Campus Forschung Nugget series, this seminar will give you an overview on the EU funding opportunities that are most relevant for the UKE and how different target groups can participate. The focus will be on the Marie Sklodowska Curie mobility actions for doctoral and postdoctoral training, the ERC excellence grants and collaborative research opportunities related to the field of health. The seminar will take place in N27, seminar room 14, 1:30-2:30 PM.

aStart (D)CSP-Seminarreihe
Das (Digital) Clinician Scientist Programm der Medizinischen Fakultät startet ab 2. Mai eine Seminarreihe. In diesem monatlich stattfindenden Seminar wird abwechselnd über aktuelle Themen aus den Bereichen Klinische Forschung und KI/Big Data berichtet. Fortschrittsberichte der CSP-Teilnehmer:innen runden die Seminarreihe ab. Die Veranstaltungsreihe ist geöffnet für alle Clinician Scientists und Interessierte. Erster Termin: 02.05.2024, 16 - 17 Uhr, SR 511 in O10. Weitere Informationen

Scientific Speed Dating, 13/05/2024
Are you in search of new ideas, impulses and methods to include in your scientific work or in need of an expert for a certain scientific method or clinical issue? Would you like to connect with fellow UKE researchers? Then you should sign up for the Scientific Speed Dating event and get to know your fellow young researchers from various disciplines. Get in touch with each other in casual 7-minute chats and explore what the person opposite you is involved in scientifically or clinically. Take the time to enjoy a free pizza and benefit from new contacts. Places are limited, so do not delay and sign up here until May 6.

UKE research magazine "wissen+forschen": Submit topic suggestions now
Visionary research, innovative therapies, AI and digitalization - topics that represent the medicine of the future at the UKE and are also to be explored in greater depth in the UKE research magazine wissen+forschen. The Corporate Communications Division (UKE) is looking for innovative projects and topics for the new issue, which will be published in November 2024. Please apply by May 5 with your short project description by e-mail . The description (attachment 3) should include the project title and person responsible as well as three to four sentences about your research project. The topic will be selected in consultation with the Dean's Office. The editorial team will then get in touch with you to implement your contribution in terms of content and design.

ZMNH Alumni Career Session on 24th April 2024 at 4 pm
Ever asked yourself what comes next after your PhD/MD/MSc or how to achieve your career goals as a young scientist in or outside academia? Then come and join us for the 4th ZMNH Alumni Career Session and get inspired by the career paths of former ZMNH students and young investigators! The event will take place on Wednesday 24th April 2024 from 4 - 6 pm in the ZMNH seminar room E.75 (different room than previous events!), Falkenried 94, ground floor. There will be 2 speakers talking about their career paths: Dr. Anne Schlüter, Group Leader Cellular Sciences, Evotec SE, Hamburg Dr. Gaston Pöllsner, Team Lead, Indivumed Group, Hamburg.

Visiting Fellow Program
Using funds from the Excellence Strategy, the Visiting Fellow Program supports international researchers invited by researchers from Universität Hamburg to complete a research stay of up to 2 months. Their stay at Universität Hamburg should contribute to the preparation of a joint grant application for an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation program (scholarship or award). The prospective research project should have links to a core research area, emerging field, or profile initiative at Universität Hamburg or take place within a research area of a Henriette Herz Scout at Universität Hamburg. Funding: generally, up to €5,000 per research stay. More information.

PhD Connect
The PhD Connect funding line taps resources from the Excellence Strategy to support virtual and hybrid colloquiums for doctoral researchers at Universität Hamburg jointly with strategic partner universities as well as research stays of one to three months at Universität Hamburg for up to 2 doctoral researchers from these partner institutions. As a rule up to €10,000 is granted per project. More information .

PROFI Impuls #UpdateHamburg24 - Frist 30.4.2024
Die Hamburgische Investitions- und Förderbank (IFB) ist das zentrale Förderinstitut der Freien und Hansestadt Hamburg. Mit dem Programm PROFI Impuls #UpdateHamburg24 werden Projekte im Bereich Social Entrepreneurship gesucht, die Hamburg als lebenswerte Stadt stärken . Es handelt sich um eine Projektförderung zur Entwicklung und Erprobung innovativer Geschäftsmodelle, Produkte, Technologien, Verfahren oder Dienstleistungen. Eines der Dachthemen adressiert den Bereich Gesundheit (z.B. auch innovative Lösungen in der Versorgung, Pflege, Zugang zu Bewegung etc.). Die Fördersumme beträgt bis zu 100 T€ (200 T€ bei Kooperationen) und der Förderzeitraum ca. 12 Monate. Das Antragsverfahren ist zweistufig: Skizzeneinreichung bis zum 30.04.2024, Antragseinreichung bis zum 30.06.2024. Gefördert werden Unternehmen/Organisationen, i.d.R. älter als 2 Jahre, sowie Hochschulen und Forschungseinrichtungen. Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier sowie auf der Internetseite der IFB. Der Technologietransfer in der MediGate unterstützt Sie gerne bei Fragen – informieren Sie uns bitte, wenn Sie eine Skizze einreichen.

EU Info email: subscribe
The EU funding team at the UKE would like to contact you with regard to EU funding. Information will include specific funding opportunities, events and developments from the EU funding landscape that we find relevant to the UKE and our researchers. If you would like to receive these emails, please subscribe by using the link below. Feel free to circulate the registration link among your colleagues and teams at the UKE. We look forward to hearing from you. UKE EU-INFO-EMAIL-SUBSCRIBE

EUGLOH webinar: Translating Health Research into Global Impact-The power of networks
Tore Godal is the keynote speaker at the EUGLOH (European University Alliance for Global Health) event on 24/04/2024, 11:15 AM-12:00 PM. He is Norway's leading health diplomat and internationally recognized for organizing groundbreaking vaccination campaigns in the global south to prevent the spread of tropical diseases and pandemics. Godal will draw on his own career to demonstrate how research conducted in broad networks, both in the north and south, can yield good results for handling global health challenges. The registration deadline is April 23rd. More information about the event and registration can be found here .

Forum Citizen Science, Hamburg 9-10/10/2024 In diesem Jahr steht die Konferenz unter dem Motto "Mit:Wirkung". Bei Citizen Science geht es einerseits um zivilgesellschaftliche Mit:Wirkung, also die vielgestaltige Teilhabe der Öffentlichkeit an der Wissensgenerierung, und andererseits um Forschung, die eine transformative Wirkung auf die Beteiligten, die Gesellschaft, die Wissenschaft und die Politik hat, also um Wissenschaft Mit:Wirkung. Beiträge können bis zum 6. Mai über den Call for Proposals eingereicht werden.

PhD Award, Deadline: 19/04/2024
The Hamburg Center of Neuroscience (HCSN) will award the best PhD Thesis (€ 1.500) and the best MD Thesis (€ 1.000). Graduates with a thesis focusing on neuroscience (defense between April 1st, 2023, and March 31st, 2024) can apply using this link .

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