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Third-party funding and current grant support

Research of our group mainly relies on third-party funding. Over the last decade in total 6 million Euros could be spent. The table and diagram below show the annually spent funds, separated into funding sources.

Funding / Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
DFG 76,862 184,502 121,370 141,476 178,781 196,919 154,190 79,481 79,321 129,750 210,276 232,970
BMBF 118,215 174,212 245,606 46,383 425,146 234,212 182,395 52,559
EU 58,641 134,536 27,203 8,454 252,122
US, NIH 51,280 3,057
Industry 197,260 337,798 175,812 244,143 189,998 164,740 162,885 370,532 131,077 131,324 169,434 136,575
Sum 392,337 696,512 542,788 490,643 503,315 440,142 320,132 450,013 635,544 503,740 562,105 674,226
German Research Foundation (DFG, blue)
German Minister of Science and Research (BMBF, yellow)
European Community (EU, gray)
National Institute of Health (US, green)
Industry fundings (Industry, red)

Recent and Current Funding ID

Funding agency Title Funding in Euro
DFG Structural studies of Shigella-specific Pathogenicity Factors as a Prerequisite for Rational Drug Design 189,750
DFG Understanding the Binding Characteristics of Aldose Reductase 113,250
DFG Structure-based Design, Synthesis and Crystallographic Characterisation of Aspartyl protease Inhibitors: Target proteins for HIV- and Malaria-infection 132,550
DFG - FO 806 Cross-correlation of Protein Binding Pockets to detect related Binding Epitopes, unexpected Cross-reactivity and Functional Relationships 216,000
DFG Interfering with Intracellular Protein-protein Interactions - Probing Protein Functions with Small Molecules, Perturbance of Enzyme Function by Blocking Dimer Interface Formation: Novel Route to Specific Antibiotics 289,100
CCDC Development of a Scoring Function 28,402
CCDC Studentship on Cambridge Structural Database – Knowledge-based Hot Spot Analysis 106,812
Bayer Schering From Targets to Novel Drugs 50,000
Sanofi Comparison of Binding Pocket using Cavbase to Analyse and Correlate Proteins across Protein Families and Design of Focused Libraries for de novo Design 111,000
Beiersdorf Design of Inhibitors for humane Tyrosinase by Molecular Modeling and Crystallography 126,000
BMBF Fragmentscreening "FragScreen" BioChance Plus, New methods for Experimental and Computational Fragment-based Drug Design 910,876
BMBF Zedira Development of Factor XIIIa - Inhibitors to Prevent Thrombosis 100,000
LOEWE Synmikro Development of novel bioinformatics methods for the prediction of protein function and interactions. Experimental validation 168,000
ERC AG Chemogenomic profiling of drug-protein binding by shape, enthalpy/entropy and interaction kinetics 1,754,615
Total 4,296,355