Research communication is important. Therefore, our SFB/TRR219 participated to the “Pint of Science Festival” in May, with three contributions: · In her talk “When your vessels turn to stone”, Dr Sofia de la Puente Secades (AG Jankowski) explained how chronic kidney disease can increase vascular calcification and cardiovascular risk. · Doctoral student Naresh Ganesh (AG Kahles) discussed “Hungry for Health: What Skipping Meals Does to Your Immune System” · Doctoral student...

Also this year, the Faculty of Medicine organized the event “Speeddate mit der Doktorarbeit”, with the aim to provide medical and science students a platform to get to know the research spectrum in our faculty. We also presented here our SFB and IRTG. We were pleased to see that our SFB attracted great interest among the students and we hope that some of the students will decide to integrate in our research consortium and advance our research as part of their doctoral theses.

In March, we welcomed two 16-year-old students from a Biotechnological Sciences program in Belgium to our lab! During their visit, they explored key research techniques — from cell culture and gene expression analysis to tissue staining. A great experience inspiring the next generation of scientists!