ERC Starting Grant

Bild: Erich Malter

Award year: 2014

Category: Scholarship / Grant

Type: ERC Starting Grant

Awarding organization: Europäischer Forschungsrat (ERC)

Each and every day our immune systems have the difficult task of distinguishing between harmful micro-organisms and the body’s own cells. The human immune system carries out a kind of co-ordinated waste separation process using specialised phagocytes. It causes the immune response against pathogens and supports the maintenance of immunological tolerance towards the body itself. Gerhard Krönke aims to develop new methods of examining co-ordinated phagocytosis and the subsequent processing of pathogens and the body’s own dead cells. These findings will allow new treatments for infectious and autoimmune diseases to be developed.

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