IIT-FZJ partnership: IAS-5/INM-9 and INM-5 will work in collaboration with Italy’s Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) to set up a neuropharmacology research platform with the aim of creating new drugs for neurological diseases.

The Helmholtz School for Data Science in Life, Earth and Energy (HDS-LEE) provides an interdisciplinary environment for educating the next generation of data scientists in close contact to domain-specific knowledge and research.

SCN Aachen focuses on inherited neuropathic pain syndromes such as small fiber neuropathy linked to sodium channel mutations.

In NHR4CES, RWTH Aachen University and Technical University Darmstadt join forces to combine their strengths in HPC applications, algorithms and methods, and the efficient use of HPC hardware. Our goal is to create an ecosystem combining best practices of HPC and research data management to address questions that are of central importance for technical developments in economy and society.

The Volkswagen Foundation supports a diversified virology and drug research at German universities and highly innovative research approaches with recognizable translational potential.

The Human Brain Project aims to put in place a cutting-edge research infrastructure that will allow scientific and industrial researchers to advance our knowledge in the fields of neuroscience, computing, and brain-related medicine.

The ALLOstery in Drug Discovery (ALLODD) project is a collaboration between 13 academic and industrial organizations with 14 ESR/PhD students available positions. The aim of ALLODD is to train a new generation of scientists to exploit the concept of allostery in drug design, putting together a whole array of technologies to identify and characterize allosteric modulators of protein function that will be applied to therapeutically relevant systems.