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IRTG

Goals

Events

Peer-to-Peer mentoring

Training program

Teaching materials

MD/PhD students

Goals

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)

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Events

Events

 

2022 (preliminary program)

 

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

 

TRR219 workshop on echocardiography and telemetry

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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

Peer-to-Peer

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

If not indicated otherwise, all events are organized by our P2P organizing committee:

Andrea Gorgels (AG Jahnen-Dechent), Fabian Peisker (AG Kramann) and Nicolas Hense (AG Goettsch).

We thank Anika Himmelsbach for her engagement in the past 3 years.

2022 (preliminary program)

January 20th

Science&Wine (open discussion) via MS Teams
What are the last steps before handing in the thesis and the defense?
Experience from our former PhD students Juliane and Bilal

 

February, 17th

Graphical abstract design via MS Teams
Organized by our PhD student Marina

 

March, 17th

Science&Wine (open discussion) via MS Teams
Newcomer introduction

 

April, 14th

Science&Wine (open discussion) via MS Teams
IRTG alumni
Experience from our former PhD students who left academic science

 

June, 28th

Science&Wine (open discussion)
BBQ networking event

 

August, 9th

Introduction to echocardiography – a practical experience
Organized by our MD student Jonas

 

September, 22th

Nephrology seminar
Organized by our clinician scientist Konrad

 

October, 20th

Microsoft Office Course
Organized by our PhD student Rosanna

 

November, 17th

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December, 15th

Science&Wine at the Christmas market

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

Training program

Overview of the educational program in four modules:

(I) Research, (II) Secondment, (III) Hands-on skills, and (IV) Complementary skills.

Teaching materials

Teaching material
All teaching materials are available through a dedicated Teams folder to which all SFB students are granted access.

PhD/MD students

Students

SFB/TRR219 PhD students

Eva Harlacher

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research

PI: Heidi Noels, Nikolaus Marx

Julia Wirth

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research

PI: Heidi Noels, Nikolaus Marx

Juliane Hermann

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Institute for Molecular

Cardiovascular Research

PI: Vera Jankowski,

Joachim Jankowski

Andrea Gorgels

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Institute for Biomedical Engineering - Biointerface Laboratory

PI: Wilhelm Jahnen-Dechent

Burcu Yesilyurt

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Institute of Pathology-Medical Clinic II

 

PI: Peter Boor, Jürgen Floege

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Anika Himmelsbach

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Department of Cardiology, Medical Clinic I

 

PI: Claudia Goettsch

Michaela Lellig

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research

PI: Vera Jankowski,

Joachim Jankowski

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Maryam Amini

PhD student

Homburg - University of

Saarland

Institute of Biophysics

 

PI: Barbara Niemeyer

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Nassim Bouteldja

PhD student
University Hospital RWTH Aachen
Institute of Pathology - Medical Clinic II


PI: Peter Boor

Pascal Mann

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Department of Cardiology, Medical Clinic I

PI: Michael Lehrke

 

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associated students

SFB/TRR219-associated - PhD and MD students

Christian Hemmers

PhD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research

PI: Heidi Noels

Shruti Bhargava

PhD student – Marie Curie ITN INCTRICARE University Hospital RWTH Aachen Institute for Molecular

Cardiovascular Research

 

PI: Joachim Jankowski

Astrid Artmeyer

MD student

University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Institute for Molecular Cardiovascular Research

PI: Vera Jankowski /

In co-operation with

Prof. Dr. Thimoteus Speer