projects and applications from highly motivated and qualified students are always welcome. Time frames or work packages for master thesis or medical doctoral thesis can be set individually. We offer a great scientific [...] environment in a young team with many exciting questions. If you would like to participate or try the work in our lab please contact Peter Boor or simply come to our scientific meeting (every monday at 17

German healthcare system and relevant information for integration into our everyday clinical work, training and work shadowing). Great importance is attached to in-depth learning of the German language. Pa [...] remains a constant point of contact for further questions that may be bureaucratic or for situations at work that may require mediation. An overview of our main activities: information and support with recognition [...] the environment Support with language difficulties Teaching units by the IPA team: how everything works in Germany (e.g. healthcare system, tax system, in-house training, support with finding accomodation)

European Rare Disease Research Coordination and Support Action (ERICA) project will officially start its work on March 1st 2021. The aim of the ERICA consortium consisting of 29 partners, in which all 24 European [...] platform that integrates all ERNs research and innovation capacity. Prof. Hilgers and his team will lead Work Package 4 regarding Clinical Trial Support. The ERICA Project is coordinated by Alberto Pereira Arias

In their work published today in Cell Stem Cell ( http://www.cell.com/action/showMethods?pii=S1934-5909(17)30079-6 ), they demonstrate that Gli1 marks a subset of bone marrow stromal cells that turn into [...] disease severity. Therefore, Gli inhibition might be a promising novel therapeutic strategy. This work has important implications for both better understanding of the disease, for improved diagnostics

in Biomedical Engineering. Plenary seminars will introduce topics, participants will present their work during an extended poster session, which provides ample opportunity for exchange of scientific ideas [...] your submissions. Call for posters: PDF-Versions (max. 1 Mbyte) of camera ready posters on related work can be submitted by authors affiliated to RWTH institutions to: bme2019@hia.rwth-aachen.de Poster

The jogging team at the MOCA also this year keep being very persistence to have a good work-health balance. Every Thursday, 11:30 sharp, members of the department meet to go jogging together and clear

appointment as Juniorprofessor at MOCA on March 1 st . It is a motivating recognition of his previous work and will pave the way for his future career as an independent researcher and teacher. We wish him

Das Institut für Neuropathologie der Uniklinik RWTH Aachen diagnostiziert und erforscht Krankheiten des Nervensystems und der Skelettmuskulatur am erkrankten Gewebe. Es untersucht das bei neurochirurgischen Operationen entnommene Material, vor allem Hirntumoren, außerdem Nerven-, Muskel- und Hautbiopsien, Liquor cerebrospinalis (Nervenwasser) und Autopsiegewebe, sowie Tier- und Zellkulturmodelle neurologischer Krankheiten.

applications from highly motivated and qualified students are always welcome. The time frames and work scale for master theses or medical doctor theses can be set up individually. We offer an inspiring

previously unrecognized ZAP-70-mediated signaling mechanism that is involved in this process. This work was just published in the renowned American immunology journal " Journal of Immunology " ( http://www [...] nih.gov/pubmed/24760155 ) and was highlighted in the " In this Issue " section of the journal. The work indicates for the first time that the potent recruitment properties that MIF has been shown to have