Complete List of the 24 Funded Projects (2019)
Medicine
“Blockade of the Chemokine Network in Cardiac Inflammation”
Applicants: Professor Shuomo Bhattacharya (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Antje Beling (Charite)*
“Organ-Specific Landscape of Human Tissue-Resident Memory T Cells”
Applicants: Professor Paul Klenerman (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Birgit Sawitzki (Charité)*
“Single Cell Transcriptomics of Pregnancy-Induced Immune Tolerance in Human Autoimmunity. (A Pilot Study to Explore Cell-Specific Molecular Signatures of Immunoregulation during Pregnancy in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis.)”
Applicants: Professor Lars Fugger (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Stefan Gold (Charité), Prof. Dr. Manuel Friese (Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf)*
“Peptide-MHC Recognition within the Innate Immunological Synapse – the Paradigm of NKG2C”
Applicants: Professor Michael Dustin (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Chiara Romagnani (Charité)
“Dynamics of Memory Systems in the Human Brain. (Integrative Study of Memory Mechanisms at Different Time Scales.)”
Applicants: Professor Masud Husain (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. John-Dylan Haynes (Charité)
“A One Health Approach for Controlling Tungiasis in Kenya”
Applicants: Dr. Lynne Elson (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Hermann Feldmeier (Charité), Dr. Ulrike Fillinger (International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE))
“Towards High-Throughput Proteomics for Clinical Applications”
Applicants: Professor Benedikt Kessler (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Markus Ralser (Charité)*
“Augmenting Attention in Health and Disease”
Applicants: Professor Roi Cohen Kadosh (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Malek Bajbouj (Charité)
“Oxford-Berlin Collaborative Network for Rheumatic and Degenerative Musculoskeletal Diseases”
Applicants: Professor Anna Katharina Simon (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Ahmed N. Hegazy (Charité), Prof. Dr. Andreas Radbruch (Deutsches Rheuma-Forschungszentrum Berlin)*
“High Resolution Noninvasive Mapping and Modulation of Cortical Activity”
Applicants: Mark Woolrich (University of Oxford), Surjo Soekadar (Charité)
“From the Eye to Consciousness – How the Representation of an Image Travels across the Brain”
Applicants: Professor Mark Woolrich (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Radoslaw Martin Cichy (Freie Universität Berlin)
“Harmonisation of Inflammatory Bowel Disease Datasets across Oxford and Berlin”
Applicants: Professor Holm Uhlig (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Britta Siegmund (Charité)*
“A Joint OX-BER Collaboration - Bioengineering an Artificial Human Joint on-a-Chip”
Applicants: Professor Marc Coles (University of Oxford), Dr. Mark Rosowski (Technische Universität Berlin)
“Understanding Prediction and Surprise in the Auditory Pathway”
Applicants: Professor Andrew King (University of Oxford), Dr. Livia de Hoz (Charité)
STEM
“Open Science by Design (New and Innovative Methods for (Semi-)Automatic Research Data Management)”
Applicants: Professor Sir Nigel Shadbolt (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Manfred Hauswirth (Technische Universität Berlin)
“Particle and Astroparticle Physics Graduate Training Program between DESY, Humboldt Berlin and Oxford”
Applicants: Professor Todd Huffman (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Cigdem Issever (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Dr. Steven Duane Worm (Desy Zeuthen)
“The Compositional Structure of Quantum Advantage (Transferable Techniques for the Design and Application of Quantum Technologies)”
Applicants: Dr. Aleks Kissinger (University of Oxford), Dr. Anna Pappa (Freie Universität Berlin)
Social Sciences
“The Comeback of the Latin American Armed Forces. (Continuities, Changes, and Challenges to Democratic Security Governance)”
Applicants: Dr. Carlos A. Pérez Ricart (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Marianne Braig (Freie Universität Berlin)
“Hate Speech and Disinformation in Comparative Perspective (Regulating Social Media: Hate Speech and Disinformation in Comparative Perspective)”
Applicants: Dr. Nicole Stremlau (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Martin Emmer (Freie Universität Berlin)
“Migration Diplomacy and Turkish-EU Relations”
Applicants: Dr. Othon Anstasakis (University of Oxford), Dr. Serhat Karakayali (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Prof. Dr. Franck Düvell (German Centre for Integration and Migration Research, Berlin)
Humanities
“Understanding Colonial Collecting in Africa. Histories and Futures. (A Global Dialogue on Cultural Restitution.)”
Applicants: Professor Dan Hicks (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy (Technische Universität Berlin)
“Autofiction in Global Perspective (Theory and Practice of Autofictional Literature in Different Cultures and Languages)”
Applicants: Professor Elleke Boehmer (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Jutta Müller-Tamm (Freie Universität Berlin)
“Walter Benjamin’s Journalistic Networks”
Applicants: Dr. Carolin Duttlinger (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Daniel Weidner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
“International Research Workshop on Global Microhistory in the Early Modern World”
Applicants: Professor Lyndal Roper (University of Oxford), Prof. Dr. Daniela Hacke (Freie Universität Berlin)
*OX/BER-BIH Joint Projects