Partners & Funding Sources

Local Partners, Affiliations and Networks

IRN is a member of the StemCellNetwork.NRW (StN), 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’
• Priority Programme SPP 2395 ‘Local and Peripheral Drivers of Microglial Diversity and Function’

European Commission

• ‘Physiological and molecular effects of inflammation episode on the severity of Shank3-based ASD phenotype on mouse and hPSC model’ (InflASD)
• ‘Novel Strategies for Cell-based Neural Reconstruction’ (NSC-Reconstruct)
• ‘European consortium for communicating gene- and cell-based therapy information’ (EuroGCT)

Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM)

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

North Rhine-Westphalia

• iBehave
• NetworkProject ‘3D-Microelectrodes for Functional Recordings from Human Brain Organoids’ (3D-miKo)

German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

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

BONFOR Program of the University of Bonn Medical Faculty

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation

Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC)