Research Projects

Collaborative Research Centres and Transregios with UR als Applicant Institution

TRR 305

Striking a moving target: From mechanisms of metastatic organ colonisation to novel systemic therapies

Spokesperson: Christoph Klein

Since 2021
Press release, 11/27/2020 (German version only)

TRR 374

TRR 374: Tubular system and interstitium of the kidney: (Patho-) physiology and crosstalk

Spokesperson: Mario Schiffer (FAU Erlangen-Nuernberg), since 1/2025; Richard Warth until 12/2024

Since 2019

TRR 221

TRR 221: Modulation of graft-versus-host and graft-versus-leukemia immune responses after allogeneic stem cell transplantation

Spokesperson: Wolfgang Herr

Since 2018
Press release, 11/26/2021 (German version only)

SFB 1277

Emergent Relativistic Effects in Condensed Matter: From Fundamental Aspects to Electronic Functionality

Spokesperson: Jaroslav Fabian

Since 2017
Press release, 05/26/2017 (German version only)

SFB 1085

Higher Invariants – Interactions between Arithmetic Geometry and Global Analysis

Spokesperson: Guido Kings

Since 2014
Press release, 11/25/2021 (German version only)

Transregio with UR as Co-Applicant Institution

TRR 325

Assembly Controlled Chemical Photocatalysis

Spokesperson: Thorsten Bach (Technical University of Munich)

Since 2021
Press release, 05/25/2021 (German version only)

Collaborative Research Centres with UR Participation

SFB 1371

Microbiome Signatures - Functional Relevance in the Digestive Tract

Spokesperson: Dirk Haller (Technical University of Munich)

Since 2019

SFB 1119

CROSSING - Cryptography-Based Security Solutions: Enabling Trust in New and Next Generation Computing Environments

Spokesperson: Marc Fischlin (Technichal University of Darmstadt)    

Since 2014

Research Training Groups with UR Spokesperson

GRK 2905

Ultrafast Nanoscopy - fFom Single Particle Dynamics to Cooperative Processes

Spokesperson: Rupert Huber   

Starting 2024

Press release, 8/11/2023

GRK 2620

Ion Pair Effects in Molecular Reactivity

Spokesperson: Ruth Gschwind    

Since 2021

GRK 2337

Pre-modern Metropolitansim

Spokesperson: Jörg Oberste

Since 2017

GRK 2174

Neurobiology of Social and Emotional Dysfunctions

Spokesperson: Inga Neumann    

Since 2017

Research Training Groups with UR as Co-Applicant Institution

GRK 2339

IntComSin: Interfaces, Complex Structures, and Singular Limits in Continuum Mechanics - Analysis and Numerics

Spokesperson: Günther Grün (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)    

Since 2018

Research Training Group with UR Participation

GRK 2740

Immunomicrotope: Microenvironmental, Metabolic and Microbial Signals Regulating Immune Cell-Pathogen Interactions

Spokesperson: Christian Bogdan (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Since 2022

Priority Programs with UR Spokesperson

SPP 2256

Variational Methods for Predicting Complex Phenomena in Engineering Structures and Materials

Spokesperson: Georg Dolzmann    

Since 2020

Priority Programs with UR Participation

SPP 1991 

Taxon-Omics: New approaches for discovering and naming biodiversity

Spokesperson: Dominik Begerow (Universität Hamburg)

Since 2017

SPP 2014 

Towards an Implantable Lung

Spokesperson: Rolf Rossaint (Universitätsklinikum Aachen)

Since 2017

SPP 2026

Geometry at Infinity

Spokesperson: Bernhard Hanke (University of Augsburg)

Since 2017

SPP 2084 

µBONE: Colonization and interaction of tumor cells within the bone microenvironment

Spokesperson: Lorenz C. Hofbauer (Universitätsklinikum Dresden)

Since 2018

SPP 2130

Early Modern Translation Cultures (1450-1800)

Spokesperson: Regina Toepfer (Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg)

Seit 2018

SPP 2141

Much more than defence: the multiple functions and facets of CRISPR-Cas

Spokeseperson: Anita Marchfelder (Ulm University)

Since 2018

SPP 2191

Molecular Mechanisms of Functional Phase Separation

Spokesperson: Edward A. Lemke (Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz)

Since 2019

SPP 2199

Scalable Interaction Paradigms for Pervasive Computing Environments

Spokesperson: Susanne Boll (University of Oldenburg)

Since 2020

SPP 2236

Auditory Cognition in Interactive Virtual Environments – AUDICTIVE

Spokesperson: Janina Fels (RWTH Aachen)

Since 2020

SPP 2244

2D Materials – Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures (2DMP)

Spokesperson: Thomas Heine (TU Dresden)

Since 2020

SPP 2416

CodeChi - Chitin, chitosan and chito-oligosaccharides and their interaction with proteins of the extracellular matrix and cellular signaling

Spokesperson: Hans Merzendorfer, University of Siegen

Since 2023

Research Units with UR Spokesperson

FOR 5424

Modulation of olfaction: how recurrent circuits govern state-dependent behaviour

Spokesperson: Veronica Egger

Since 2021
Press release, 07/04/2022 (German version only)

FOR 5235

Cereal Stem Cell Systems (CSCS): Establishment, Maintenance and Termination

Spokesperson: Thomas Dresselhaus

Since 2021
Press release, 09/30/2021 (German version only)

FOR 2926

Next generation Perturbative QCD for Hadron Structure: Preparing for Electron-Ion Collider

Spokesperson: Vladimir Braun

Since 2019

FOR 2858

Role of translocator protein (18 kDa) (TSPO) as a diagnostic and therapeutic target in the nervous system

Spokesperson: Rainer Rupprecht

Since 2019
Press release, 07/10/2019 (German version only)

FOR 2770

Beyond Canon_: Heterotopias of Religious Authority in Ancient Christianity

Spokesperson: Tobias Nicklas    

Since 2018

FOR 2407

Exploring Articular Cartilage and Subchondral Bone Degeneration and Regeneration in Osteoarthritis (ExCarBon)

Spokesperson: Susanne Grässel    

Since 2016

Research Units with UR Participation

FOR 5098

Innovation and Coevolution in Plant Sexual Reproduction – ICIPS

Spokesperson: Annette Becker (Justus Liebig University Giessen)    

Since 2021

FOR 5242

Proximity-induced correlation effects in low dimensional systems

Spokesperson: Chistoph Tegenkamp (Chemnitz University of Technology)  

Since 2021

FOR 2733

Transformation of Sacred Space: Function and Use of Religious Places in Germany

Spokesperson: Albert Gerhards (University of Bonn)    

Since 2019

FOR 3013

Vector- and Tensor-Valued Surface PDEs

Spokesperson: Axel Voigt (TU Dresden)    

Since 2019

FOR 2959

Health literacy in early childhood allergy prevention: parental competencies and public health context in a shifting evidence landscape (HELICAP)

Spokesperson: Christian Apfelbacher  (Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg)    

Since 2019

FOR 2830

Advanced Concepts in Cellular Immune Control of Cytomegalovirus

Spokesperson: Lars Dölken (Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg)

Since 2019

FOR 5200

DEEP-DV: Disrupt – Evade – Exploit. Gene expression and host response programming in DNA virus infection

Spokesperson Melanie Brinkmann (TU Braunschweig)

Since 2021

FOR (KFO) 5011

Integrating emerging methods to advance translational kidney research (InteraKD)

Spokesperson: Peter Boor (Universitätsklinikum Aachen)

Since 2021

• Trial PRISMA: "A pilot randomized phase II trial on social prescriptions and micro learning to improve care for patients with various cancer entities and their support persons", funded by the NCT Investigator-Initiated Trial (IIT) Portfolio

  Prof. Dr. Anne Herrmann-Johns
  Funding amount: 2 Mio €
  Duration: 2024-2028

• German National Cohort (NAKO Gesundheitsstudie/NAKO), Prof. Dr. Michael Leitzmann
  Funding amount: 3.4 Mio €
  Duration: 3rd funding phase 01.05.2023 - 30.04.2028
  https://nako.de/informationen-auf-englisch/

• Research Unit „Kultur und Erinnerung. Heimatvertriebene und Aussiedler in Bayern“ of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) and the Chair of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe at Universität Regensburg
  inanced by the Free State of Bavaria
  Duration 2022 until 2025
  Webseite of the research unit on the IOS-homepage

• Funding commitment for Southeast European Studies
  funded by the Volkswagen Foundation within the framework of the program "Weltwissen - Strukturelle Förderung Kleiner Fächer"
  Ger Duijzings (Chair of History of Southeast and Eastern Europe)
  Duration 01.05.2022 - 30.04.2029
  Press release from February 3, 2022 (German version)

• „Poetiken der Industrielandschaft: Donbass und Oberschlesien im Vergleich“
  funded by the BMBF within the framework of a joint project
  Oleksandr Zabirko and Alina Strzempa (Chair of Slavic Literature and Cultural Studies)
  Duration 01.02.2022 - 31.01.2026
  Press release from January 19, 2022

• Doctoral program „Chemische Katalyse mit photonischem oder elektrischem Energieeintrag“
  funded by the Elitenetzwerk Bayern
  Oliver Reiser
  Duration 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2025
  Press release from December 23, 2021

• Doctoral program „RNA med - Future Leaders in RNA-based Medicine“
  funded by the Elitenetzwerk Bayern
  in cooperation with TU München and LMU München, directed by Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
  Duration 01.01.2022 - 31.12.2025
  Press release from December 23, 2021

•  „INSIST“ (INduStrial IoT Security Operations CenTer)
  funded by the funding line „Digitalisierung“ of Bayerisches Verbundsforschungsprogramm (BayVFP)
  Günther Pernul
  Press release from November 2, 2021

• "FALKO-PV – Fachspezifische Lehrkraftkompetenzen – Prädiktive Validierung von Professionswissenstests für Lehrkräfte in sechs Unterrichtsfächern"
  funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) under the framework program "Empirische Bildungsforschung"
  Alfred Lindl
  Duration: 01.06.2021 - 31.05.2026
  Project Homepage

• "DEVISE – Datenqualitätsmanagement zur Verbesserung der Informationssicherheit“
  funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) within the framework of its funding priority „Ökonomische Aspekte von IT-Sicherheit und Privatheit“
  Günther Pernul
  Duration: 01.04.2021 – 31.03.2024
  Press release from April 19, 2021

• „HIVacToGC“ - interdisciplinary research project for new approaches to the prevention and treatment of HIV infection;
  funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) within the framework of its funding program „Gezielter Wirkstofftransport“
  Ralf Wagner
  Duration: 01.03.2021- 29.02.2024
  Press release from March 30, 2021

• „Regulatory Instruments in the Real World“
  Research project on the steering function of law; investigation and comparison of different regulatory instruments with recourse to established methods of empirical social research
  funded by the Volkswagen Foundation
  Alexander Hellgart
  Duration: 2021 - 2028
  Press release from March 26, 2021
• "Charakterisierung von Qubits und Quantenprozessoren" - Subproject at UR in the project network "Halbleiter-Quantenprozessor mit shuttlingbasierter skalierbarer Architektur" (QUASAR);
  Promoted within the framework of the funding program "Quantenprozessoren und Technologien für Quantencomputer" of the BMBF
  Duration: 01.02.2021 - 31.01.2025
  Press release from February 16, 2021
• "VIROFIGHT - General-purpose virus-neutralizing engulfing shells with modular target-specificity"
  Funded by the European Union
  Duration: June 1, 2020 to May 31, 2024
  https://www.virofight.eu/
• "Screening of inFlammation to enable personalized Medicine" (SciFiMed), Funded by the European Union
  Diana Pauly
  Duration 01.10.2020 to 30.09.2024
  more information on the homepage of the European Commission
• Collaborative project "Entwicklung von nanotechnologiebasierten neuartigen Schnelltests für den Nachweis von Covid-19-Immunität – POCT-NeutCov"
  funded by the Bayerische Forschungsstiftung
  Antje Baeumner
  Press release from November 2, 2020
• Research network bayresq.net, funded by Bayerisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst
  Project „Metabodefense“ Jonathan Jantsch, Katja Dettmer-Wilde, Rainer Spang)
  Project „Immunkontrollpunkte kommensaler Bakterien“ (André Gessner, Markus Feuerer, Uwe Ritter; Koordination durch Diana Dudziak of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
  Duration: 01.01.2020 – 31.12.2024
  Press release from January 22, 2020
• KOLEG2 - Kooperative Lehrerbildung Gestalten 2, gefördert durch die "Qualitätsoffensive Lehrerbildung" funded by BMBF
  Duration: June 2015 to December 2023
  www.uni-regensburg.de/koleg/
  • CoVoC-T – Communication and Voice Center for Teachers
    https://www.uni-regensburg.de/forschung/covoc-t/
• Joint project "Wildpflanzenschutz Deutschland II"
  funded by Bundesamt für Naturschutz
  Peter Poschlod
  Duration: 15.07.2018 - 14.07.2023