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Meet our 2021 Scientific Fellowship Awardees

We are delighted to announce the selection of our 2021 Bayer Foundation Fellowship Awardees

 

Congratulations!

In our work, we strive to enhance the impact of science for the benefit of society. With a focus on embedding a collaborative mindset in the next generation of scientific leaders, our fellowships provide opportunities for international exchange for brilliant young minds. In 2021, we selected 25 young people for this unique experience and provided more than 175,000 € in funding.


Our 2022 program will open for application on 28/02/2022 and you can find more information here under Fellowships and Stipends.

 

Meet our 2021 fellows here:

 

 

 

 

Otto Bayer Fellowships in Drug Discovery

 

Steitz Philipp


From RWTH Aachen, Germany, going to Prince Felipe Research Centre, Spain
Project: Development of multifunctional nanomedicines to successfully modulate tumor-stroma-immune interactions

 

 

 

Jana Muriel Braunger

 

From University of Greifswald, Germany, going to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
Project: Use of machine learning (ML) to predict the effects of drug combinations

 

 

 

Eva Krötenheerdt

 

From Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Germany, going to Brown University, RI, USA    
Project: Investigation of ubiquitin signaling in CarT cells for better understanding of the side effects of cancer immunotherapy

 

 

 

Svenja Lützow

 

From RWTH Aachen, Germany, going to ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Project: Development of a novel microfluidic platform to enable co-culturing of 3D tumor microtissues together with suspended immune cells

 

 

 

Tristan Vornbäumen

 

From Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany, going to Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA
Project: Performance of genome-wide genetic screens to systematically interrogate how different pigmentation phenotypes introduce vulnerabilities in melanocytes and melanoma cells

 

 

 

Jacqueline Berner

 

From Eberhard-Karls-University Tübingen, Germany, going to Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA    
Project: Performance of next generation CRISPR screens and chemical proteomics to identify genes and compounds that selectively regulate organellar reactive oxygen species (ROS)

 

 

 

 

Hannes Kucher

 

From Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, going to ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Project: Exploration of new methods for studying the transfer of unknown fluorinated motifs to small organic molecules

 

 

 

Maiia Shulman

 

From Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, going to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
Project: Studying the evolvement of previously quiescent breast cancer cells into aggressive metastatic derivatives by using various human breast cancer cell lines

 

 

 

 

Dominik Marcel Wieland

 

From Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Germany, going to Rensselaer Astrobiology Research and Education (RARE) Center, NY, USA
Project: Development of a cost efficient, fast, and versatile method for monitoring the health of bioreactors to ensure optimal production of specific drugs

 

 

 

Taddäus Strunden

 

From University of Heidelberg, Germany, going to University of Notre Dame, IN, USA
Project: Research on the design and synthesis of isoform-selective heat shock protein inhibitors towards the development of new drugs for cancer therapy

 

 

 

Jeff Schell Fellowships for Agricultural Science

 

Yang Ding

 

From University of Göttingen, Germany, going to Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Netherlands     
Project: Measuring the dynamics and drivers of carbon storage in soil to understand the role of carbon in soil microbe life cycles

 

 

 

 

Swathi Ramapuram

 

From University of Hohenheim, Germany, going to Aarhus University, Denmark    
Project: Studying the adaptation of plants to soil-specific microbiota by analyzing plant growth as a fitness variable

 

 

 

 

Steffen Heuvel

 

From Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany, going to University of California, CA, USA
Project: Mechanistic studies of the nickel-catalyzed oxidation of inactivated C(sp3)-H bonds for the synthesis of new compounds used for crop protection or for novel pharmaceuticals

 

 

 

Oyedibu Oloyede

 

From University of Ibadan, Nigeria, going to Institute for Crop and Soil Science Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI), Germany
Project: Monitoring heavy metals in soil originated from the Ibadan area in Nigeria and their effects on the environment and human health

 

 

 

Saudat Alishayeva

 

From Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany, going to Harvard University, MA, USA    
Project: Combining epigenetic measurements and behavioral assays to understand the molecular network contributing to behavioral preferences in animals and humans

 

 

 

Carl Duisberg Fellowships for Medical Sciences

 

Mikal Obed


 

From Hannover Medical School (MHH), Germany, going to Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) of the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Toronto, Canada    
Project: Studying the role of MicroRNA expression in under-developed lung tissue of newborns and the effect of Amniotic Fluid Stem Cell Extracellular Vesicles (AFSC-EVs) to release MicroRNAs

 

 

 

Lukas Heeke

 

From RWTH Aachen University, Germany, going to Harvard Medical School, MA, USA    
Project: Studying the causes and the effects of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the gut of patients with sleeping disorders and finding ways of preventing ROS-caused lethality  

 

 

 

Marvin Ziegler

 

From University Heidelberg, Germany, going to Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, MA, USA
Project: Performing a comprehensive compound screen in neurons derived from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) to identify target molecules for treating spastic paraplegia in children

 

 

 

Simone Kaltenhauser

 

From University of Regensburg, Germany, going to Yale School of Medicine, CT, USA
Project: Elucidation of correlations between brain microstructures and adolescents’ health, gender differences and educational success

 

 

 

Birte Schmid

 

From Karolinska Insitutet / Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg, Germany, going to Stanford University School of Medicine, CA, USA    
Project: Studying the role of amyloid precursor protein (APP) in Alzheimer disease

 

 

 

Anna Sophia Spinner

 

From Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg, Germany, going to Karolinska Institute, Sweden     
Project: Conducting genome-wide screens in human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) and differentiated tissue to identify microproteins controlling pluripotency and differentiation processes

 

 

 

Jean-Marc Kutz

 

From Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, going to University Mahajanga, Madagascar
Project: Applying a PCR Luminex array to analyze the distribution of the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and Female Genital Schistosomiasis (FGS) in the female population of Madagascar

 

 

 

Saeedeh Shamsaddini Lori

 

From Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Iran, going to University of Hohenheim, Germany     
Project: Adaptation of molecular methods to analyze the risk and the distribution of infections with Cystic Echinococcosis (CE) in endemic regions in Iran

 

 

 

 

Daniel Ehis Aigbonoga

 

From University of Ibadan, Nigeria, going to Ludwig Maximilian University Munich, Germany
Project: Adaptation and transfer of good practices in perioperative management of patients in Germany to the specific conditions of Nigeria

 

 

 

Adewale Boluwatife

 

From University of Ibadan, Nigeria, going to Institute of Translational Genomics, Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany
Project: Analyzing genetic risk factors common to Osteoarthritis (OA) and Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) through genotyping of samples derived from Nigerian patients

 

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