Partners & Funding Sources

Local Partners, Affiliations and Networks

IRN is a member of the ImmunoSensation Cluster of Excellence², the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN), the Bonn Center of Neuroscience (BCN) and the Bonner Forum Biomedizin (BFB).

Funding Sources

German Research Foundation (DFG)

• Cluster of Excellence ‘ImmunoSensation^2′ (EXC2151)
• SFB ‘Synaptic Micronetworks in Health and Disease’ (SFB1089)
• Unit FOR 2953 ‘Sialic Acid as Regulator in Development and Immunity Research’
• SPP 2502 Project ‘Epigenetic Priming of Astrocytes by Early-Life Neuroinflamation: The Role of the SWI/SNF/BAF Complex’
• Priority Programme SPP 2395 ‘Local and Peripheral Drivers of Microglial Diversity and Function’

European Commission

• ‘European Consortium for Communicating Gene- and Cell-Based Therapy Information’ (EuroGCT)

Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space

• Go-Bio Initial Project ‘GBi6S: CytoSphereX – Automated Miniaturized 3D Cell Culturing Device (FA3DCCD)

Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM)

• Project ‘Human Organoids for Studying Pharmacovigilance During Brain Development’

North Rhine-Westphalia

• iBehave
• Network Project ‘3D-Multiplex Polygenic BD1’

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

• Project ‘Unravelling the Pathomechanisms of Canavan Disease Using a Human 3D Myelinoid Model’

Wilhelm Sander Stiftung

• Project ‘Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-Based Disease Modeling of ZFTA-RELA Ependymoma and a High-Throughput Screen to Identify Compounds with Therapeutic Activity’

BONFOR Program of the University of Bonn Medical Faculty