Funding of ten HEiKA projects

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In 2024 ten innovative HEiKA projects are funded.

In 2024 HEiKA is funding again ten very innovative and interesting projects.

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All HEiKA-Projects

Funding period 2024

PD Dr. med. Katharina Feld / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Tobias Düser
AHeaD - Abusive Head trauma Dummy
Dr. Raoul Haschke / Prof. Dr. Sören Hohmann
Building and expanding resilience and entrepreneurship in university start-up programs - Student Innovation Lab at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and Heidelberg University
Prof. Dr. Jügen Hesser / Prof. Dr. Ines Langemeyer
Living Lab for Studying the Effect of Communication in Medicine
Prof. Dr. Eva Blasco / Dr. Frank Biedermann
New Technologies for Neurotransmitter and Hormone Detection in Genuine Biofluid Specimens from Tumor Patients
Dr. phil. Monika Eckstein / Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Katja Mombaur
Perception of Robotic Touch in Geriatric Healthcare (PerRoT-G)
Dr. Markus Köhli / Dr. Gerardo Hernandez-Sosa
Printed Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensors for Smart Agriculture
TT-Prof. Dr. Skyler Degenkolb / Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempf
Quantum sensing with neutrons: spin-selective detectors for precision measurements
Prof. Dr. Dirk Grimm / Prof. Dr. Véronique Orian-Rousseau
Targeting Colorectal Cancer Plasticity in Organoids through Adeno-associated virus (AAV) vector technology
Dr. Wen-Shan Zhang / Dr. Md. Mofasser Mallick
Towards High-Performance Printed Thermoelectronics: Enhancing Interfacial Charge Transport via Dynamic Charging Map Analysis
Dr. med. dent. Christoph Roser / Dr.-Ing. Dorit Nötzel
Untersuchungen an mittels FFF-3D-gedruckten Implantaten aus Zirkoniumdioxid

Funding period 2021

Dr. Tobias A. Schaub / Dr. Frieder Scheiba
Benzoin Condensation: Reviving an Old Reaction for New Anode Materials in Organic Batteries
Prof. Dr. Jeroen Krijgsveld / Prof. Dr. Pavel Levkin
Combining Droplet Microarrays and Mass Spectrometry for Single-Cell Proteomics
PD Dr. med. Lucas Schirmer / Prof. Dr. Véronique Orian-Rousseau
Decoding astroglial CD44 function in neuroinflammation
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Uwer / Dr. Richard Leys
Development of HV-MAPS pixel sensors for a large area tracking detector
Dr. Lizeth Sloot / Prof. Dr. Thorsten Stein
Keep moving: unraveling the effects of rollator assistance on movement in older adults using a robotic rollator simulator
Dr. Anja Butter / Prof. Dr. Gudrun Heinrich
Machine Learning in LHC Theory
Prof. Dr. Motomu Tanaka / Dr. Vlad Badilita
On-Chip Fabrication of 3D Bio-Polymer µ-Arrays for Correlative “Cell Clinic”
Prof. Dr. med. Ramin Khoramnia / Prof. Dr. Werner Nahm
Towards personalized therapy in retinal diseases - Development and evaluation of therapeutic performance parameters from OCT-Angiography images

Funding period 2020

Prof. Dr. Gergana Dobreva / Prof. Dr. Ute Schepers
3D bioprinting of heart tissue for transplantation - Effects of materials and endothelial factors on stem cell maturation to functional myocardial tissue
Prof. (apl.) Dr. Dr. Christian Freudlsperger / Prof. Dr. Werner Nahm
A radiation free, deep learning based classification of craniofacial deformities on surface scans. Paving the methodical way towards a patient’s digital twin.
Prof. Dr. Stefan J. Geibel / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. h. c. Albert Albers
Autonomes Fahren und Recht
HEiKAexplore: Autonomous systems in the area of conflict between law, ethics, technology and culture
Dr. Sebastian Wolf / Prof. Dr. Holger Puchta
CRISPR/Cas based tissue engineering
Dr. Friederike Elias / Prof. Dr. Marcus Popplow
Die Zukunft Zeichnen – Technische Bilder als Element historischer Technikzukünfte in der frühen Künstlichen Intelligenz
HEiKAexplore: Autonomous systems in the area of conflict between law, ethics, technology and culture
Dr. Sevin Turcan / Dr. Anna Popova
High-throughput compound screening in 3D glioma tumorsphere models
Prof. Dr. med. Marc Fatar / PD Dr. rer. nat. Nicole Ruiter
Magnetic resonance-guided opening of the blood-brain barrier using focused ultrasound for cell-mediated therapies of brain diseases
Prof. Dr. Dr. Jürgen Debus / Prof. Dr. Ivan Peric
Particle therapy beam monitoring with HV-CMOS sensors
Dr. Lutz Greb / Prof. Dr. Annie Powell
Silicon polyoxolenes: open-shell building blocks for the construction of magnetic or conductive covalent organic frameworks.

Funding period 2019

Prof. Dr. Karen Bieback / Prof. Dr. Ute Schepers
3D bioprinting of a blood-retina-barrier to elucidate the role of mesenchymal stromal/stem cells as potential therapy in diabetic retinopathy (3D-BRB)
Prof. Dr. Markus Schwarz / Prof. Dr. Andreas Guber
3D gedruckte Nano-Zellgerüstträger für die in situ Knorpelregeneration zur Behandlung von Gelenkknorpelschäden. Untersuchungen zum Zellrecruitment in einem Bioreaktor.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Kuner / Dr. Frank Biedermann
In vitro and in vivo Monitoring of Dopamine Levels in Neural Tissues using Novel Zeolite-based Chemosensors
Prof. Dr. Carmen Wängler / Prof. Dr. Stefan Bräse
Modular shining architectures for cellular imaging
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Steffen Lemke / Dr. Nicole Jung
Modulation of epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) with small molecules
Prof. Dr. Ulrich A. Glasmacher / Dr. Klaus Eitel
Searching for Dark Matter particle signatures with salt minerals as Palaeo-Detectors
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yana Vaynzof / Dr. Ulrich Wilhelm Paetzold
Towards High Yield PERovskite solar cells by inkjet printing <HYPER>
Prof. Dr. Björn Malte Schäfer / Prof. Dr. Thomas Schwetz-Mangold
What if the Milky Way was a quantum-mechanical object?

Funding period 2018

Prof. Dr. Dirk Werle / Prof. Dr. phil. Mathias Herweg
Future knowledge. Contingency and prognosis in the literature of the late Middle Ages and early modern times
HEiKAexplore - Text worlds and knowledge research
Dr. Iordania Constantinou / Dr. Dario Mager
High-throughput selective cell isolation based on imprinted microfluidics and fluorescence microscopy
Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Friedrich / Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Olaf Dössel
Improved Phenotyping of Cardiomypathy Patients by Means of Imaging-Driven Computational Modeling of Cardiac Biomechanics
PD Dr. med. Philipp Erben / Prof. Dr. Andreas Guber
Invasions- und Genexpressionsanalysen im Urothelkarzinom der Harnblase: Entwicklung eines mikrofluidischen in vitro Lymphgefäßmodells
Prof. Dr. Sonja Kleinke / Prof. Dr. phil. Andreas Böhn
Knowledge in technology utopias and dystopias. Strategies of media representation and discursiveness of knowledge in fictional narratives and online contexts
HEiKAexplore - Text Worlds & Knowledge Research
Prof. Dr. Michael Mastalerz / Dr. Julia Rinck
Nanoparticles in Porous organic coordination compounds: from functional molecules to functional materials
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer / Prof. Dr. Guido Drexlin
Preparing a large-scale DARWIN demonstrator with a HV test facility for cryofluids and corresponding KASSIOPEIA field simulations
JProf. Dr. Loredana Gastaldo / Dr. Oliver Sander
Proof of concept for the MATRIX experiment designed to search for signatures of keV sterile neutrinos in the 3H beta spectrum
Prof. Dr. Uwe Bunz / Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Uli Lemmer
Synthesis and Nanostructuring of Heteroazulene-Materials for Thermoelectric Generators
Prof. Dr. Heike Allgayer / Prof. Dr. Hans-Achim Wagenknecht
Synthesis of single cell, single molecule RNA probes for the detection of enogenous microRNAs in human cancer to dentify metastatically relevant cance cell fractions in heterogenous tumors

Funding period 2017

Jun.-Prof. Dr. Susanne Westhoff / Dr. Jose Zurita
A novel dark matter signal at the LHC: di-Higgs plus missing energy
Dr. Martin Maier / Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andrea Iris Schäfer
AsFreeH2O: Eignung und soziale Akzeptanz von Wasserreinigungstechnologien unter Einfluss zukünftiger Meerwasserspiegelanstiege
FACE - Facing Environmental Change: Research, Communication, Action
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Anna Growe / Dr. Christoph Mager
Assessment and Perception of Green and Open Spaces in Urban Regions in the Context of Climate Protection and Climate Adaptation
FACE - Facing Environmental Change: Research, Communication, Action
Dr. Monica Dunford / Prof. Dr. Ulrich Husemann
Dark Matter at the LHC – Analysis and Interpretation
Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler / Prof. Dr. Armin Grunwald
EIR – Eco-Industrial Regions Sustainability-oriented regional development with a special focus on the governance of resource efficiency potentials
FACE - Facing Environmental Change: Research, Communication, Action
Dr. Martin Bauer / Prof. Dr. Ulrich Nierste
Exploring the Dark Sector with B Decays
Prof. Dr. Sebastian Kempf / Dr. Oliver Sander
Prototypentwicklung eines skalierbaren, auf metallischen magnetischen Kalorimetern basierenden Multikanal-Detektorsystems für die Suche nach dunkler Materie
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Hansmann-Menzemer / Prof. Dr. Ulrich Nierste
Workshop „Flavour and Dark Matter”

Funding period 2016

PD Dr. med. Thomas Jänisch / Dr. Felix Löffler
A proof-of-concept approach for high-throughput screening of protective vs. harmful antibody profiles in infectious diseases
Prof. Dr. Alexander Zipf / Dr. Bijan Khazai
Crowdsourcing for Forensic Disaster Analysis
Prof. Dr. Annika Guse / Prof. Dr. Stefan Bräse
Development of novel compound classes to establish the marine sea anemone Aiptasia as a laboratory system for coral symbiosis
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Schwarz / Prof. Dr. Martin Bastmeyer
Engineering the three-dimensional environment of eukaryotic cells: a combined experimental and modeling approach
Prof. Dr. Thomas Neumann / Dr. Tobias Kluge
Extreme climate events in the historical past - A complementary view based on geological and historical archives
Dr. Felix Hinkel / Dr.-Ing. Philip Scharfer
Functionalized tetraazapentacenes as electron-transport materials for multi-layer OLEDs
Prof. Dr. Katja Mombaur / Prof. Dr. Thorsten Stein
Interdisciplinary approach to human motor control and learning: sensorimotor experiments, biomechanical modeling, and computational optimization
Prof. Dr. Uwe Bunz / Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Uli Lemmer
The Quest for Stable n-Doped Polyelectrolytes
Prof. Dr. Joachim Wittbrodt / Prof. Dr. Tilo Baumbach
Three-dimensional imaging of gene expression patterns by x-ray computed tomography

Funding period 2015

Dr. Nicole Bobrowski / Prof. Dr. rer. nat. André Butz
Accurate Prototype remote sensing of correlated carbon and sulfur emissions from mount Etna (APE)
apl. Prof. Dr. Suat Özbek / Dr. Nicole Jung
Functional analysis of TRPN/NOMPC channels and mechanosensation by novel small molecule inhibitors
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Yana Vaynzof / Dr. Ian Howard
Fundamental mechanisms of degradation in organic semiconductors and their effect on the performance of organic photovoltaic devices
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gert Fricker / Prof. Dr. Ute Schepers
In vitro reconstruction of dynamic blood brain barrier using μ3DVAsc as an artificial microvascular system
Prof. Dr. Christian Witschel / Prof. Dr. Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Multidimensionale Sicht- und Erfahrbarmachung von Kulturerbe
Prof. Dr. Michael Mastalerz / Dr. Gerardo Hernandez-Sosa
Nanoporöse halbleitende Oberflächen als neuartige Sensoren (nanOFETs)
Prof. Dr. Heike Leitte / apl. Prof. Dr. Markus Reischl
Neue Methode zur Feedback-basierten Segmentierung und Visualisierung von komplexen 3D-Bilddatensätzen
Prof. Dr. Barbara Di Ventura / Dr. Olivier Kassel
Shedding light on myogenesis: Novel optogenetic tools to control muscle progenitor cells differentiation