EU-funded doctoral program UNLIMITED strengthens research in field of immunometabolism

UNLIMITED is designed as a Europe-wide doctoral network and comprises 15 doctoral projects that are closely linked through shared scientific questions and coordinated training measures. Over the next four years, 15 doctoral students from eleven European countries will complete a structured, interdisciplinary training program. The network is complemented by national and international partners from industry.

Prof. Thekla Cordes successfully secured a doctoral position in her research group “Cellular Metabolism in Infections.” This group is based at the Technische Universität Braunschweig and the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, and located at the Braunschweig Integrated Centre of Systems Biology (BRICS).

Prof. Thekla Cordes is a founding member of the European Immunometabolism Network and the EFIS Study Group on Immunometabolism. These initiatives gave rise to the idea for UNLIMITED, which will promote intensive scientific collaboration at the European level in the future.

“Our goal is to better understand metabolism and use this knowledge to develop new approaches for treating diseases. Close European collaboration within the framework of UNLIMITED is a crucial step toward this,” says Cordes.

In addition, Cordes was able to secure 10,000 euros in funding for the application under the MSCA Doctoral Network from the BEREIT funding format of the “zukunft.niedersachsen – Europaprogramm” program of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture (MWK). These funds played a key role in the successful submission of the EU application. UNLIMITED strengthens European collaboration in immunometabolism and the training of early-career researchers in this dynamic field of research.