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Anna Vyvers successfully finished her MD thesis with highest honors

Today our MD student Anna Vyvers successfully passed the oral examination at the end of her MD thesis. Her doctoral thesis is entitled "Neuropeptide screening on acid-sensing ion channels" and was…

Das Institut für Physiologie trauert um Bernhard Deuticke

Am 03.08.2020 verstarb Bernhard Deuticke, von 1971-1999 Professor am Institut für Physiologie. Bereits 1967 kam B. Deuticke als Privatdozent mit dem Gründungsdirektor des Instituts, Eckehard Gerlach,…

Stefan Gründer wins teaching award PAULA

Stefan Gründer, Director of the Institute of Physiology, has received the teaching award PAULA („Preis für Ausgezeichnete Universitäre Lehre vergeben von Aachens Medizinstudierenden“) for the best…

Fellow of the Philipp Schwartz Initiative starts to work at Institute of Physiology

We are very happy that our request for a fellowship was granted by the Philipp Schwartz Initiative of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. The fully funded research fellowship gives us the…

New insights into the species-specific activation mechanism of the apoptosis channel TRPM2

The complex activation mechanism of the apoptosis channel TRPM2 seems to have changed significantly in the course of metazoan evolution. This special feature which has been discovered by our team a…

Katastrophenerstversorgung: Institut für Physiologie der Uniklinik RWTH Aachen organisiert internationale Konferenz

In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Regional Centre for Science and Technology Transfer der Indian Ocean Rim Association (IORA-RCSTT) organisiert Prof. Dr. Khosrow Mottaghy vom Institut für Physiologie an…

Annual Retreat of the Institute of Physiology

Today more than 40 members of the Institute of Physiology assembled at Youth Hostel Aachen for our annual retreat. Exciting presentations and lively discussions – but also the table tennis tournament…

Newly discovered effects of bile acids on P2X receptors

In addition to their classical role in digestion, bile acids have been shown in recent years to have additional functions, particularly in various cellular signaling cascades. Recently we were able to…

First functional characterization of a novel ADPR-interaction site in TRPM2 channels

Recent cryo-electron microscopic analyzes of a species variant of the human TRPM2 channel confirm the existence of a novel interaction site for ADP-ribose (ADPR) as already postulated by our group in…

Two prizes at the 7th Symposium of the Young Physiologists in Nuremberg

At the 7th Symposium of the Young Physiologists, which took place on 14 and 15 March 2019 in Nuremberg, Germany, Sarah Thull won the prize for the best talk. The title of her talk was “Resurgent-like…

Gelungenes Forschungsprojekt

Forschungsprojekt des Instituts für Physiologie wird vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie als Erfolgsbeispiel hervorgehoben

Annual Retreat of the Institute of Physiology

Today the Institute of Physiology had for the fourth time its annual retreat – for the third time at Youth Hostel Aachen. Even if the location does not seem to be very fancy (it is better than it…