Letting Cells Live and Die

In the International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine Ulm, everything revolves around cells. In close cooperation between the clinic, laboratory and the graduate school, researchers are attempting to understand nature’s smallest building blocks. Scientists’ have many research fields. In various working groups, doctoral candidates develop, e.g., new ways of curing leukaemia. Through deliberately programmed cell death, so-called apoptosis, future chemotherapy should be geared to the individual requirements of the patients.

Other scientists are attempting to understand how and why the human body ages in the course of its life. Patients should then benefit from the results of this research as soon as possible. These close links between research and practical application are a particular strength of the graduate school and offer the doctoral candidates an excellent beginning for a start in a research career.