IZKF
The Interdisciplinary Center of Clinical Research of the Jena University Hospital (IZKF) promotes clinical research and its interconnection with basic research. One of its major aims is to support young scientists and their involvement in molecular, preclinical and clinical studies. In this context, the IZKF has developed different programs such as doctoral fellowships for medical students, rotational positions for young physicians, which allow them to work in research laboratories, and junior projects that help young scientist to obtain their own funding. The IZKF programs support the major research topics of the medical faculty including (i) sepsis and long-term sequelae of sepsis, (ii) age and age-associated diseases, (iii) dynamics of complex biological systems/signal transduction and (iv) medical optics and photonics. In addition, the IZKF assists projects from other fields of experimental and clinical medicine to allow the development of new research areas in the medical faculty.
The IZKF graduate school is open to doctoral students of life sciences
and medicine coming from different research groups of the Medical Faculty and
provides a diversified program. The lectures series is dealing with the
pathogenesis of immunological,
inflammatory, oncological and neurological diseases and introduces cell
biology, molecular biology, systems biology and translational approaches. The
method courses focus on advanced
molecular biology techniques, imaging techniques, electrophysiological methods
and functional, morphological and behavioural studies in animals. The major aim
is to provide insights into advanced models and laboratory techniques of
molecular medicine as important tools to investigate molecular disease
mechanisms.
