Every two years, the kbo-Innovationspreis Mental Health - Social Psychiatry honors empirical and practice-oriented scientific work in the field of mental health and social psychiatry. In this way, kbo promotes practice-relevant research and science for the continuous improvement of care for people with a mental illness or mental disability.

Application must be received by March 31, 2023. 

Every doctoral candidate that registered their project after 2017 has to take the Good Scientific Practice course, preferably in the first six months after starting the project work. We have just added new dates (in German and English) for the upcoming semester, so you can see and book the dates if they fit your schedule.

All TUM members are cordially invited to join in on a range of events – especially many TUM women. The motto this year is “Career Paths of Strong TUM Women” and includes meeting women who carved their very own path at and through TUM, visit their workspaces, listen to them on the evening panel and feel strengthened, inspired and connected.

ENCODS is a 2-day conference (a satellite event of the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies - FENS) for master and doctoral students in neuroscience organized by doctoral students and supported by FENS.

Expression of the multi-functional protein TIMP-1, which can act as a protease-inhibitor as well as a cytokine, positively correlates with progression of virtually all immune-associated diseases, including inflammation and cancer. At Krüger Lab they have discovered that TIMP-1 expression determines sex-disparities in liver metastasis and survival in pancreatic cancer (Hermann et al. J Exp Med 218:e20210911, 2021).