Dr. Heidi Noels and Dr. Yvonne Döring receive the W.H. Hauss Award from the DGAF
19-21 April 2018
Dr. Heidi Noels from the Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research at RWTH Aachen University together with Dr. Yvonne Döring from the Institute for Prophylaxis and Epidemiology of Circulatory Diseases at LMU Munich together received the DGAF W.H. Hauss Award 2018 from the German Society for Atherosclerosis Research (DGAF) during the 32nd Annual Meeting of the DGAF in Rauischholzhausen, Germany. They were awarded for their publication "Vascular CXCR4 Limits Atherosclerosis by Maintaining Arterial Integrity: Evidence From Mouse and Human Studies." (Circulation. 2017; 136: 388-403). In this work it could be shown that vascular CXCR4 has an atheroprotective function by maintaining the arterial integrity and preserving the endothelial barrier function. In addition, CXCR4 stabilizes a contractile smooth muscle cell phenotype. Targeted enhancement of these CXCR4-mediated protective functions could open up novel therapeutic options in the treatment of atherosclerosis.
The award was sponsored by a long-standing active member of the DGAF, Prof. Dr. Winfried März.
Project area Z
Administrative project
Robert Werner Mertens
MD student
University Hospital RWTH Aachen
Department of Internal Medicine
Project: The role of incretin hormone GLP-2 in septic cardiomyopathy
PI: Michael Lehrke
Robert Werner Mertens
MD student
University Hospital RWTH Aachen
Department of Internal Medicine
Project: The role of incretin hormone GLP-2 in septic cardiomyopathy
PI: Michael Lehrke
Consortium
Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Complications
in Chronic Kidney Disease
The SFB/TRR219 is supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG)
Project-ID 322900939
Goals
The Integrated Research Training Group (IRTG) “Cardiovascular complications in CKD” will create an interdisciplinary training program to guide the PhD students within the TRR219 to become the next generation of innovative, independent and translational cross-disciplinary researchers exploiting multiple facets of CVD in CKD. This comprehensive training program covers salient aspects of the pathophysiological mechanisms triggering CVD in CKD and will achieve full participation and integration of all PhD students in early career stages.
The program is personalized to the individual needs of the particular PhD student. Of note, the IRTG is embedded into the existing excellently structured PhD training program in Aachen and Homburg, respectively as well as international graduate schools. We will provide each PhD student
with the needed cross-disciplinary as well as complementary soft skills to perform efficiently in the
highly demanding translational research field. Further, the IRTG serves as a network base for the TRR219 to efficiently connect the topics, technology and methods between Aachen and Homburg.
Feedback from PhD and MD students about the activities of our graduate school (Dec 2020)
Events
2025
Shared mechanisms underlying diseases: Hot Topics
Weekly Lecture Series, Winter semester 2025, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
Multi-organ diseases - Pathological mechanisms underlying disease
Weekly lecture series, Summer semester 2025, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
Sex & Gender in Kidney and Heart
Weekly Lecture series s, Winter- and Summer semester 2025, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
The CardioRenal Patient
Case discussion, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
Summer semester + Winter semester 2025
2024
Participation in the EUKISS summer school
9 October, 2024
In the framework of the “Joint meeting of German DFG-funded CRC consortia & graduate schools focusing on heart, vasculature and kidney”, Frankfurt
Graduate training day
9 October, 2024
In the framework of the “Joint meeting of German DFG-funded CRC consortia & graduate schools focusing on heart, vasculature and kidney”, Frankfurt
Read more:
Shared mechanisms underlying diseases: Hot Topics
Weekly Lecture Series, Winter semester 2024, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
Sex & Gender in Kidney and Heart
Weekly Lecture series s, Winter- and Summe semester 2024, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
Basics of clinical studies, Part 4: Statistics
12 June 2024, organized by S-01
Basics of clinical studies, Part 3: a practical example
Insides to the ARIANA study - scientific background and practical execution
22 May 2024, organized by M-07
Workshop “Research data management on a practical level: how to achieve transparent data description and storage?
13 March in the framework of our Annual SFB Retreat, by our postdocs and data manager
Read more
Multi-organ diseases - Pathological mechanisms underlying disease
Weekly lecture series, Summer semester 2024, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
Cardiorenal Case Study Discussion
18. and 25. January, organized by our clinician scientists
Clinical Shadowing for Scientists
January and February
2023
Shared mechanisms underlying diseases: Hot Topics
Weekly Lecture Series, Winter semester 2023, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
Basics of clinical studies, Part 2: Interpretation of clinical studies
18 December 2023, organized by S-01
Basics of clinical studies, Part 1: Overview of clinical studies
28 November 2023, organized by S-01
6th Cardiorenal Summer School
21.-23. June 2023 in Gemünd
Sustainability in the lab
by Dr. Kerstin Hermuth-Kleinschmidt
16 May 2023
Multi-organ diseases - Pathological mechanisms underlying disease
Weekly lecture series, Summer semester 2023, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
2022
5th Cardiorenal Summer School,
Joint Event SFB/TRR219 & Marie-Curie ITN StrategyCKD, ESAO and EUTox
21-23 September 2022 in Skopje, North Macedonia Read More
Multi-organ diseases - Pathological mechanisms underlying disease
Weekly lecture series, Summer semester 2022, in Aachen
With life streaming for Homburg participants
TRR219 workshop on mass spectrometry imaging
August and September 2022, organized by S-03
2021
TRR219 workshop on GraphPad Prism & Statistics
06-09 December 2021, Virtual event
Proper citation and avoidance of plagiarism’
Dr. Martin Nissen, University library Heidelberg
11 and 12 November, 2021, Virtual event
Multi-organ diseases - Pathological mechanisms underlying disease
April - July, 2021, weekly virtual seminars
My online profile and visibility as scientific expert on LinkedIn & ResearchGate
Katja Wolter; Steinbeis-Forschungszentrum Institut für Ressourcen-Entwicklung
05 May, 2021, Virtual event Read More
Seventh TRR219 workshop on Project management
09 March, 2021, Virtual event Read More
4th Cardiorenal Winter School, Joint Event SFB/TRR219 & Marie-Curie ITN CaReSyAn and INTRICARE & EURLIPIDS
01-03 February 2021, Virtual event Read More
2020
Sixth TRR219 workshop on GraphPad Prism & Statistics
07-10 December, 2020, Virtual event Read More
International workshop „Business entrepreneurship and commercialization”, Joint Event Marie-Curie ITN CaReSyAn and
INTRICARE & SFB/TRR219
November and December, 2020, Virtual events Read More
Online Scientific & Career Workshop, Joint Event SFB/TRR219 & Marie-Curie ITN CaReSyAn and INTRICARE & EURLIPIDS
30-31 October, 2020, Virtual event Read more
Multi-organ diseases - Pathological mechanisms underlying disease
21-25 September, 2020, Virtual seminars
Fifth TRR219 workshop on statistics, Joint Event SFB/TRR219 & Marie-Curie ITN CaReSyAn
15-17 June, 2020 in Aachen Read more
3rd Cardiorenal Winter School, Joint Event SFB/TRR219 & Marie-Curie ITN CaReSyAn and INTRICARE & EURLIPIDS
05-07 February 2020 in Seeheim-Jugenheim Read more
2019
Fourth TRR219 workshop
01-02 October, 2019 in Homburg Read more
Multi-organ diseases - Pathological mechanisms underlying disease
09-13 September, 2019 in Aachen
2nd Cardiorenal Winter School, Joint Event SFB/TRR219 & Marie-Curie ITN CaReSyAn and INTRICARE & EURLIPIDS
07 February 2019 in Seeheim-Jugenheim Read more
2018
Third TRR219 workshop
18-19 October, 2018 in Homburg Read more
Multi-organ diseases - Pathological mechanisms underlying disease
03-09 September, 2018 in Aachen
Second TRR219 workshop
03-07 September, 2018 in Aachen Read more
1st Cardiorenal Summer School, Joint Event SFB/TRR219 & Marie-Curie ITN CaReSyAn and INTRICARE & EURLIPIDS
23-25 August 2018 in Seeheim-Jugenheim Read more
First TRR219 workshop, Joint event SFB/TRR219 & Marie-Curie ITN INTRICARE
06-08 March, 2018 Read more
Peer-to-Peer mentoring
We established a peer-to-peer (P2P) mentoring program for MD and PhD students. It facilitates communication and integration of MD and PhD doctoral candidates with diverse background and the common interest in cardiorenal research. Additionally it nourish a common spirit within the graduate school. The P2P program is self-organized from and only for MD/PhD students.
MD/PhD students created an open minded community to discuss different topic in an intimate atmosphere without any supervisor. The P2P has a strong networking value also for newly joining MD and PhD students
Successful start of the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) program
Nov, 2018 in Aachen Read more
Events
Months & Research Group
Scientific topic
January - IMCAR
“How to submit a paper”; Guest Lecture "How to survive peer review" by Dr. Uta Göbel (organized by DFG graduate school ME3T)
February - Med I
UKA Researcher Alliance (URA) Connect
March
PerMedik "AI Workshop"
April - AMICARE
Mass Spectometry Seminar
June - AG Boor
Workshop about kidney histology
August - AG Jahnen-Dechent
RWTH "Young Research Day"; Seminar "How to apply for research funds"
October - AG Kramann
Seminar "Advanced in vitro modelling of the kidney"
If not indicated otherwise, all events are organized by our P2P organizing committee:
Sonja Vondenhoff (AG Noels), Dustin Mikolajetz (AG Jankowski), Erik Merckelbach (AG Jankowski)
Past P2P organizing committees
01/2022 - 04/2024: Camilla Winkler (AG Jahnen-Dechent), Rosanna Huchzermeier (AG Van der Vorst) and Nicolas Hense (AG Goettsch).
11/2018 - 12/2021: Andrea Gorgels (AG Jahnen-Dechent), Fabian Preisker (AG Kramann) and Anika Himmelsbach (AG Goettsch).
2025
January
How to submit a paper
February
t.b.a.
Organized by C-02, C-07, M-03
April
t.b.a.
Organized by M-01, S-02
June
t.b.a.
Organized by M-07
August
t.b.a.
Organized by C-03
December
P2P Christmas spirit
2024
February, 28th
Social Event
Pub Quiz "biology style"
March, 21st
Statistic Workshop with open discussion
by Julia
May, 6th
Career Talk: my life in industry
by our alumni Christian
June
Photo shooting for professional photos
July
Networking BBQ
September
Young research day
November
t.b.a.
December
P2P Christmas spirit
2023
January, 24th
Writing Session: Do your chores!
Working together to increase motivation.
March, 1st
Cardiology Seminar
by our clinician scientist Martin Berger; MD, PhD
April, 25th
Socializing
May, 23rd
Nephrology case study
by our medical students Felix and Philipp and clinician scientists Adelina and Susanne
July
Socializing
Networking BBQ
September, 22nd
Panel discussion: Women in science – a personal perspective
November, 21st
Career Talk: my life in industry
by our alumni Guilia
December, 19th
Peer-to-Christmas
2022
January, 27th
Open discussion
Last steps before handing in thesis/defense
by Juliane and Bilal
February, 17th
Scientific / Workshop
Graphical abstract design
by Marina
March, 17th
Open discussion
Who is new?
April, 14th
Biography presentation
by our alumni Marieke and Katja
June, 28th
Networking BBQ
August, 9th
Practical course: ECG
by our medical students Jonas and Melina
September, 1st
Open discussion
SFB Rudi rockt (cooking event)
October, 26th
Nephrology Seminar
by our clinician scientist Konrad
November, 17th
Open discussion
Games night
December, 15th
Open discussion
Christmas networking
2021
January 11th
Science&Wine (open discussion)
What obstacles did I overcome during my PhD/MD – what went good and what was challenging?
February, 2nd
Science&Wine (open discussion)
Scientific networking in the challenging time of COVID19 – What is going well?
April, 14th
Science&Wine (open discussion)
Statistics with GraphPad Prism – exchange of experience
June, 7th
Biography presentation
Prof. Lars Blank
July, 13th
Project presentations from Julia With (AG Noels) via MS Teams
September, 14th
Biography presentation via MS Teams
Prof. Leticia Prates-Roma
October, 6th
Project presentations from Lea Herkens (AG Boor) via MS Teams
November, 11th
Project presentations from Christian Hasberg (AG Jahnen-Dechent) via MS Teams
December, 13th
Science&Wine at the Christmas market
Canceled due to COVID19 pandemic
2020
January, 29st
Poster layouts – Discussion round by doctoral students
February, 27th
After work networking
March, 24th
Canceled due to COVID19 pandemic
April, 1st
Meet up online – scientific networking in the difficult time of COVID19
June, 18th
The Heart – function, disease and diagnostic, Virtual event
Dr. med. Martin Berger, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Medical Clinic 1
(organized by Eva Harlacher und Christian Hemmers)
August, 24th
Communication of science to the general public, Virtual event
Dr. Lars Dittrich, German science communication Youtube channel MaiLab
(organized by Maria Chiara Arrivas und Pascal Mann)
September, 30th
Presenting yourself in a job interview, Virtual event
Achim Toennes, Toennes consult
(organized by Katja Ermert und Burcu Yesilyurt)
October, 28th
Photos, graphs and figures, Virtual event
Prof. Willi Jahnen-Dechent, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Institute for Biomedical Engineering - Biointerface Laboratory
October, 30th
Fall Get Together with Scientific pitches and open discussion (How do I know I´m done with lab work and should start writing?), Virtual event
November, 24th
Mental strength for early career researchers, Virtual event
Judith Bergner, Dipl. Psych., Registered EurPsy Psychologist, Executive MBE (organized by Marina Heuschkel und Katja Krüger)
2019
January, 31st
Doctoral regulations
Prof. J. Jankowski, Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research
February, 7th
Get together in Seeheim
February, 18th
Introduction to the bibliographic database EMBASE
Dr. Robert. Niebergall, Customer Consultant, Life Sciences, Elsevier Information Systems GmbH
March, 21st
Introduction to statistics
Giulia Ilaria Bagarolo, Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research
April, 29th
Introduction to EndNote
Ms Gabriele Pinnen, Informationsdienste, Informationskompetenz, Universitätsbibliothek der RWTH Aachen
July, 25th
After work networking with a picnic
October, 1st
After workshop get together
October, 30th
Workshop lab techniques – Discussion round by doctoral students
2018
November, 8th
KickOff
December, 13th
Networking at the Christmas market in Aachen
Training program
Overview of the educational program in four modules:
(I) Research, (II) Secondment, (III) Hands-on skills, and (IV) Complementary skills.
