Hooray! The Col­lab­o­ra­tive Research Grant “Foun­da­tions of Cir­ca­di­ane Med­i­cine” is here (to stay).

Very hap­py that our lab will be part of the new DFG-fund­ed Col­lab­o­ra­tive Research Cen­tre („Son­der­forschungs­bere­ich“, SFB) Tran­sre­gio 418 between the Char­ité Berlin and Uni­ver­si­ty of Lübeck, spear­head­ed by chrono­bi­ol­o­gy wiz­ards Achim Kramer (Berlin) and Hen­rik Oster (Lübeck) — “Foun­da­tions of Cir­ca­di­an Med­i­cine”.

A CRC/SFB col­lects about 15 projects, cen­tral funds, and many prin­ci­pal inves­ti­ga­tors from both loca­tions, and will fund a whole new gen­er­a­tion of researchers at the verge of med­i­cine,  neu­ro­science, and sys­tems biol­o­gy for ini­tial­ly 4 years. A CRC/SFB can exist up to 12 years in total.

Our lab will run, joint­ly with Hen­rik Oster, an ambi­tious study on Ket­a­mine and its inter­ac­tions with the inter­nal clock and endocrine (esp. glu­co­cor­ti­coid) sys­tem of the human body, with the ulti­mate goal of under­stand­ing bet­ter how and why Ket­a­mine can exert its ben­e­fi­cial effects on mood.

Stay tuned for more, and con­grat­u­la­tions to all involved!