Integrated Research Training Group

The CRC 1116 integrated Research Training Group (iRTG) aims to promote the next generation of qualified early career researchers through outstanding scientific education. The iRTG enables doctoral researchers and doctoral researchers in medicine to prepare their doctoral thesis in the field of cardiovascular biology and medicine.

To achieve this task our early career researchers complete a structured doctoral training program. This program aims to advance cooperative international research and learning in the context of tightly linked, collaborative research projects investigating the molecular mechanisms which influence cardiac remodeling in the acute and subacute phase after acute myocardial infarction including the complex crosstalk between cardiac and extracardiac cell populations, metabolic adaptation, comorbidities and ischemia-triggered systemic responses.