2022

ECN member Prof. Soekadar heads the Translation and Neurotechnology Research Unit and the Clinical Neurotechnology Working Group at the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy at the Charité Mitte Campus. Complementing the current ERC Starting Grant, a proof-of-concept grant of 150,000 euros from the European Research Council will now help to refine a promising approach and bring it to application maturity.

On Saturday, May 7, 2022, the Career Exploration Day took place at Cabuwazi in Berlin. The event was organized by The Career Development Initiative (CDI) with the aim to inform, network and discuss about different career paths.

Neuroscientist Matthew Larkum has been awarded an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) for his research project "Dendro-somatic coupling and global neuronal signalling" as part of the European research program Horizon Europe.

On 21 March 2022, Craig Garner said goodbye. To mark this occasion and as a big thank you, a farewell symposium was held together with the DZNE at the Kaiserin Friedrich Haus in Berlin.

Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase, or PI3K for short, is a family of lipid kinases that plays a key role in the human body, performing functions such as cell division, metabolism, and cell growth. While class I PI3Kα is well-researched and an important target for cancer drugs, little is known about class II of this lipid kinase family. Now, researchers from the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) have been able to shed light on its structure and function.