Elective courses
FIRST elective courses
If you wish to join a course, please contact Brigitte Held for more information.
Lipids in Health & Diseases & Lipid Pharmacology
Topics: Endocannabinoids in the vascular system; Leukotrienes and atherosclerosis
Prostanoids and nociceptor sensitisation by lipids
Cannabinoids in nociception and neuroimmune interaction and nerve injury
Crash Course – Basics in Molecular and Clinical Immunology
Topics: innate immunity & adaptive immunity;
Hyperactive immune system: Tolerance and Allergy, Chronic Inflammation, Autoimmunity and Transplantation;
Hypoactive immune system: Immune Deficiencies ;
Tumour, immune therapy and NK cells and stem cell transplantation
From Target to Drug
Topics: History, biology and clinical relevance of the pro-inflammatory cytokine TNFα;
the development and use of TNFα blocking agents as anti-inflammatory drugs
Pain Research - from animals to humans
Topics: various forms of pain, pain models and pain pharmacology
Tumour Biology
Topics: Cancer – growth control and signalling, Stem cells and cancer stem cells,
Tumour immunology, Leukaemia and lymphoma
Genomic integrity and cancer, Multistep tumourigenesis
Cancer treatment
Molecular Virology
Topics: Structure and replication strategies of viruses, Simple and compley retroviruses
Viruses as gene transfer vehicles and expression systems, Immune reactions to viruses
Vaccinia virus, Hepadna viruses, herpes virus, Virus evolution
Biopharmaceuticals
Topics: Peptides, oncolytic viruses, immunization, vector viruses, antibodies, si RNA, RNA and DNA aptoamers, cytokines, coagulation factiors, muteins
Cardiovascular Course
Topics: regulation of vascular tone, endothelial dysfunction, platelet function, angiogenesisi, atherosclerosis, hypertension
Regenerative Medicine
Topics: stem cells in regenerative medicine, hematopoetic stem cells, reprogrammed stem cells