BIOSS to receive continued funding

BIOSS achieved success in the second phase of the Excellence Initiative of German universities and will receive the full amount of funding for the next five years. This means that BIOSS will continue its successful course from analysis to synthesis in signalling research and will be able to fully equip its new research building, Signalhaus Freiburg. The decision, which was announced today, is a sign that we have done many things right in the last five years. We will continue our work, which has been very successful, while also constantly striving to improve. I want to thank all our members in the BIOSS cluster of excellence for their research and their contribution to the funding application. This success would not have been possible without you.

The next phase of funding will enable us not only to continue our current programmes and structures, but it will also make the appointment of four new professors and two new junior research groups at the University of Freiburg possible. The research focus of “BIOSS-2” will include oncogenic signalling (signalling processes in cancer cells) and BiNEP, a nanoscale explorer programme. In the BiNEP programme, BIOSS will research the signalling functions of membrane proteins at the nanoscale, below the resolution of a light microscope, using new methods and approaches. This is a field that has been little researched to date. BIOSS’s close partnerships with researchers in the fields of biology, medicine, chemistry, physics and engineering at the University of Freiburg will enable the cluster to further develop its innovative research programme and to establish itself as a successful centre of biological signalling research in Germany and abroad. I look forward to the future!