Collaborative Research Centres (SFBs) are research institutions established by universities for a period of up to 12 years. Scientists work together here on an interdisciplinary basis. Thus, innovative, complex and long-term research projects are realized through the coordination and concentration of persons and resources at the Faculty of Medicine and enable an institutional focus and structure formation according to the three main research areas of the Faculty.

Collaborative Research Centres at the Faculty of Medicine:

• Collaborative Research Centre 670:
  Cell-autonomous Immunity
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Martin Krönke, Institut of Mikrobiology

• Collaborative Research Centre 829:
  Molecular Mechanisms regulating Skin Homeostasis
  Speaker: Prof. Carien Niessen, Clinic of Dermatology/University Hospital of Cologne
   
• Collaborative Research Centre 1310
  Predictability in Evolution
  Speaker: Prof. Michael Lässig, Institute for Biological Physics, University of Cologne
   

• Collaborative Research Centre 1399:
  Mechanisms of drug sensitivity and resistance in small cell bronchial carcinoma
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Roman Thomas, Institute for Translational Genomics
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• Transregional Collaborative Research Centre 259:
  Aortic Diseases
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. Georg Nickenig of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
  Co-Speaker: Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Baldus from the Medical Faculty of Cologne, who works at the Heart Center of the University Hospital of Cologne.
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Subprojects in the SFBs at Cologne’s Mathematics & Natural Sciences Faculty

• Collaborative Research Centre 680:
  Molecular Basis of Evolutionary Innovations
  Speaker: Prof. Dr. M. Lässig, Institut for Theoretical Physics
   
• Collaborative Research Centre 1218:
  Mitochondrial regulation of cellular function
  Speaker: Prof'in Dr.' Elena Rugarli, CECAD / Institute für Genetics