Alliance Inter-institutional Postdoc Program

The Alliance Inter-institutional Postdoc Program fosters early scientific independence and supports innovative research ideas. Embedded in an excellent inter-disciplinary scientific environment, the program offers access to high-end technologies and state-of-the-art labs at world-class research institutions in Heidelberg and Mannheim, Germany – one of the largest biomedical research hubs in Europe.

In order to attract talent to the Alliance partner institutions and to the Rhine-Neckar region, the Health + Life Science Alliance carries out annual recruitment rounds. Based at at least two Alliance labs, highly talented and motivated postdoctoral fellows are funded over up to two years to work on inter-disciplinary and inter-institutional research projects by members of the Alliance.

Application to the Program

Application for our first round of 2023 Recruitment is now closed.
Details on our next call will be announced in due course.

Alliance Inter-institutional Fellows

Maja Bencun, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
Functional characterization of uORF-encoded microproteins in cardiomyocytes
Christoph Dieterich, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University + Rebecca Wade, Heidelberg University

Aylin Camgöz, DKFZ 
Oncogenic roles of PRDM16 in ST-EPN-ZFTA ependymomas
Marcel Kool, DKFZ + Magdalena Laugsch, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University

Rafael Cardoso, DKFZ
Discovery and evaluation of non-invasive tests and risk models for personalized colorectal cancer screening
Hermann Brenner, DKFZ + Nuh Rahbari, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University

Ines Castro, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
The Nuclear Pore Complex as a site for genomic transcription and splicing
Marina Lusic, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University + Sinem Saka, EMBL

Taniya Chakraborty, Heidelberg University
Bottom-up assembly of a macrophage-mimicking synthetic cell
Selhuber-Unkel, Heidelberg University + Kerstin Göpfrich, MPI, Heidelberg University

Quinten Ducarmon, EMBL
Discovery of novel gut bacterial carcinogenesis mechanisms
Georg Zeller, EMBL + Eran Elinav, DKFZ

Charles Dussiau, EMBL
Integrative analysis of single cell omics with cellular and functional features of ageing at a whole organ level using machine learning
Judith Zaugg, EMBL + Michael Milsom, DKFZ

Büşra Erarslan-Uysal, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
Characterizing genomic structural variation and leukemogenesis in Shwachman-Diamond-Syndrome
Joachim Kunz, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University + Jan Korbel, EMBL

Nicolai Karcher, EMBL
Towards personalized microbiome-informed immunosuppressive therapy in transplant medicine
Michael Zimmermann, EMBL + Burkhard Tönshoff + David Czock, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University

Svenja Müller, ZI
Molecular principles underlying the effects of prenatal maternal stress on placenta and neurodevelopment: from a human longitudinal cohort to mechanistic insight
Stephanie Witt, ZI + Alexander Aulehla, EMBL

Maria Lucia Pigazzini, EMBL
Unraveling the emerging link between structural centrosome aberrations and cancer
Niccolò Banterle, EMBL + Ingrid Hoffmann, DKFZ

Daniela Ramirez Butavand, Heidelberg University
Training the sleeping brain: effects of high intensity training on sleep-dependent brain plasticity in major depression
Simon Steib, Heidelberg University + Gordon Feld, ZI

Vladimir Ryabov, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University
Role of inflammation in fully humanized and immunologically active 3D bone marrow models of healthy and neoplastic hematopoiesis
Daniel Nowak, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University + Marieke Essers, DKFZ

Petr Smirnov, EMBL 
Merging histopathology imaging and genome sequencing using machine learning to discover fundamental properties and translational opportunities of tumors with chromothripsis
Wolfgang Huber, EMBL + Aurelie Ernst, DKFZ

De-en Sun, MPI
Spying on brain tumors with chemogenetic integrators
Kai Johnsson, MPI + Frank Winkler, DKFZ

Florian Constanty, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
Dissecting the cardiac regenerative microenvironment using spatial OMICs
Arica Beisaw, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University + Chi-Chung Wu, Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University

Nir Fulman, Heidelberg University
Interdisciplinary research platform “Urban nature experience, biodiversity and mental health”
Alexander Zipf + Marcus Koch + Gerd Hoefele, Heidelberg University + Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, ZI

Florian Marx, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
Multiplex serology to identify novel biomarkers for tuberculosis
Claudia Denkinger, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University + Tim Waterboer, DKFZ

Fredrika Rajer, EMBL
Quantifying the effect of long-term antibiotic prophylaxis in infants on the pediatric microbiome and the development of antibiotic resistance
Michael Zimmermann, EMBL + Christan Gille + Burkhard Toenshoff + Alexander Dalpke, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University

Suzan Kors, Heidelberg University
A molecular and ultrastructural analysis of mitotic organelle remodeling and of organelle interactions during mitosis
Anne Schlaitz, Heidelberg University + Yannick Schwab, EMBL

Joshua Stevenson-Hoare, DKFZ
Linking Hyperscanning in EEG and fMRI measures for studying  social interactions
Hermann Brenner, DKFZ + Beate Ditzen, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University + Judith Zaugg, EMBL

Marie Jacobovitz, EMBL
Plasticity of nuclear cycling in response to the environment
Gautam Dey, EMBL + Markus Ganter, Heidelberg University

Matthias Wagner, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University
GPI-anchored surface proteins of protozoan parasites as targets for therapeutic antibodies
Friedrich Frischknecht, Medical Faculty Heidelberg, Heidelberg University + Nina Papavasiliou + Hedda Wardemann, DKFZ 

Contact

Dr. Sabine Rehberger-Schneider
Email: postdocs [at| health-life-sciences.de

Phone: +49 6221 54 15962