Tasks and Responsibilities

Support of DFG Statutory Bodies

Permanent Senate Commission on Food Safety
Sektion 4

Scientific Areas of Responsibility

205-05   Nutritional Sciences
205-17   Endocrinology, Diabetology, Metabolism

Scientific Areas of Responsibility (Deputy Contact)

205-15   Gastroenterology
205-16   Nephrology
205-33   Anatomy

Coordinated Programmes (procedural matters)

Priority Programmes

1656	INTESTINAL MICROBIOTA - a microbial ecosystem at the edge between immune homeostasis and inflammation

Research Units

2558	Interactions of essential trace elements in healthy and diseased elderly (TraceAge)
5146	Defining the osteohepatic axis in the context of iron homeostasis - FerrOs

Coordinated Programmes (scientific matters)

CRC/Transregios

127	Biology of xenogeneic cell, tissue and organ transplantation - from bench to bedside
205	The Adrenal: Central Relay in Health and Disease
296	Local control of TH action (LocoTact)

Clusters of Excellence (ExStra)

2030	CECAD - Excellent in Aging Research

Collaborative Research Centres

1052	Obesity Mechanisms
1118	Reactive metabolites as a cause of diabetic complications
1371	Microbiome Signatures -- Functional Relevance in the Digestive Tract

International Research Training Groups

1874	Diabetic Microvascular Complications
2251	Immunological and Cellular Strategies in Metabolic Disease (ICSMD)

Research Training Groups

1957	Adipocyte - Brain - Crosstalk
2576	vivid - in vivo investigations towards the early development of type 2 diabetes