The project funding provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs, the Federal Ministry of Health, and the Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts plays a major role in our university’s research achievements. Here you will find a list of current and recently completed projects with funding in excess of 500,000 euros.
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
NAKO: German National Cohort (GNC) – National Cohort Study Centre for Research on Widespread Diseases
Project director: Professor Markus L?ffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2014–2023
DZD München – German Center for Diabetes Research: Adipose tissue research
Project director: Prof. Dr. Michael Stumvoll (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Endocrinology, Nephrologym Rheumatology)
Term: 2016 – 2025
SMITH – Smart Medical Information Technology for Healtcare
Project director: Prof. Dr. Markus L?ffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2016 – 2026
ToSEE: Treatment of Benzodiazipine-Refractory Status Epilepticus in the Elderly Population
Project director: Professor Joseph Cla?en (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neurology)
Term: 2018–2023
AMIS II – Analysis of developmental pathways from child maltreatment to internalizing symptoms and disorders in childhood and adolescence: from longitudinal trajectories to intervention
Project director: Prof. Dr. Kai von Klitzing; since 2021/01/10 Dr. Lars Otto White (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Paediatric Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics)
Term: 2019 – 2024
HerediCaRe – Establishment of a national registry to evaluate and improve risk-adapted prevention for hereditary breast and ovarian cancer
Project director: Dr. Christoph Engel (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2019 – 2024
Specific Inhibition of the Ribosomal 50S Subunit Assembly in Bacteria as Novel Bactericidal Mechanism Unexploited by Current Antibiotics
Project director: Professor Ralf Hoffmann (Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Centre for Biotechnology and Biomedicine (BBZ))
Term: 2020–2024
MR-Thrombosis – MR-supported minimally invasive diagnosis and treatment of thromboses
Subproject: Research into an optimized manufacturing process for MR-compatible nitinol constructs
Project director: Prof. Dr. Andreas Melzer (Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS))
Term: 2019 – 2023
ELVIS-Studie – Nasal high-flow versus non-invasive ventilation in the treatment of acute acidotic hypercapnic exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (AECOPD)
Project director: Prof. Dr. med. Hubert Wirtz (Faculty of Medicine, Medical Department II – Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Pneumology Center for Clinical Studies)
Term: 2020 – 2025
CORALA II – Long-term need for Ranibizumab injections with or without early targeted peripheral laser photocoagulation for the treatment of macular edema due to central retinal vein occlusion
Project director: Prof. Dr. med. Matus Rehak (Faculty of Medicine, Department of Ophthalmology)
Term: 2020 – 2025
SUCEED-F – Study of frequent environmental exposures and diseases in childhood and adolescence: feasibility
Project director: Prof. Dr. med. Antje K?rner (Faculty of Medicine, Deaprtment of Pediatrics)
Term: 2020 – 2024
SYMPATH – Systems medicine of pneumonia-aggravated arteriosclerosis
Project director: Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2020 – 2025
LiSymKrebs – DEEP-HCC – Detailed analysis of the spatial organization of the development of hepatocellular carcinoma
Project director: Prof. Dr. Daniel Seehofer (Faculty of Medicine, Department for Visceral, Transplantation, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery)
Term: 2021 – 2027
LiSymKrebs – SMART-NAFDL – A systems medicine approach for the early detection and prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Project director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Berg (Faculty of Medicine, Medical Department II – Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, Pneumology)
Term: 2021 – 2027
SaxoCell – Living Medications
Procet directors: Prof. Dr. Uwe Platzbecker, Dr. Vladan Vucinic, Dr. Beatrice Sara Berneck, Prof. Dr. Jan C. Simon, Dr. Kristin Reiche, Prof. Dr. Achim Aigner, Prof. Dr. Thomas Neumuth, Prof. Dr. Ulrich Hacker (Faculty of Medicine)
Term: 2021 – 2024
SmartBWL – Smartphone-assisted behavioral therapy for weight loss in adults with severe obesity
Project director: Prof. Dr. Anja Hilbert (Faculty of Medicine, Department for Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy)
Term: 2021 – 2024
Faktencheck Artenvielfalt
Project director: Prof. Dr. Christian Wirth (iDiv and Faculty for Life Sciences)
Term: 2021 – 2024
ValuGaps – Comprehensive valorization of natural capital in Germany: approaches and methods for dealing with scarce information and uncertainties
Project director: Dr. Jasper Nikolaus Meya (iDiv)
Term: 2021 – 2024
@ktivPLUS – Obesity and Depression- Development, Activeness, Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of a Self-Help Strengthening Online Coach
Project director: Dr. Margit L?bner (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Social Medicine, Work Medicine and Public Health)
Term: 2022 – 2025
CAP-TSD – CAP-TSD - Causal analysis and predictive modeling of molecular and clinical time series data of pneumonia patients: Subproject A
Project director: Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2022 – 2025
3MP-FUS – Neuromodulation in rare neuropsychiatric disorders with focused multi-modal-multi-parameter ultrasound
Subproject: Experimental technical and pre-clinical evaluation of the FUS system, clinical requirements definition and integration
Project director: Prof. Dr. Andreas Melzer (Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery (ICCAS))
Term: 2022 – 2025
6G Health
Project director: Prof. Dr. Markus L?ffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2022 – 2025
FOMO – Nanoporous shape-matched glass monoliths as drug depot systems for drug targeting in dentistry
Project director: PD Dr. rer. nat. Andreas K?nig (Faculty of Medicine, Department for Dental Prosthetics and Material Science)
Term: 2022 – 2025
LINC – Lipid Immune Neuropathy Consortium
Project directors: Prof. Dr. Ruth Martha Stassart (Faculty of Medicine, Paul-Flechsig-Institute for Neuropathology), Prof. Dr. Robert Fledrich (Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Anatomy)
Term: 2022 – 2025
PROGNOSIS – Epidemic-related resource requirements of hospitals Modeling of incidence, bed occupancy, staff planning and supply chains
Project director: Prof. Dr. Markus Scholz (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2022 – 2025
GeMTeX MII – Cross-consortia use case of the medical informatics initiative: Automated processing of German clinical texts
Project directors: Prof. Dr. Martin Boeker / Prof. Dr. Markus L?ffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2023 – 2026
LE-REP – Interdisciplinary junior research center for reproductive health
Project director: Prof. Dr. Bahriye Aktas (Faculty of Medicine, Division of Obstetrics)
Term: 2023 – 2026
INTERPOLAR – Reducing medication problems and drug interactions (USE Case)
Project director: Prof. Dr. Markus L?ffler (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2023 – 2026
PrivateAIM – Privacy-protecting analytics in medicine
Project director: Prof. Dr. Toralf Kirsten (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2023 – 2027
NUM DIZ – Network of data integration centers of the University Medicine
Project director: Dr. Thomas Wendt (Faculty of Medicine, Datenintegrationszentrum)
Term: 2023 – 2025
ADAPT – African "One Health"-Network for Disease Prevention
Project director: Prof. Dr. Uwe Truyen (Institut for Animal Hygiene and Public Veterinary Services, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine)
Term: 2023 – 2027
DZKJ – Deutsches Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Aufbauf?rderung Standort Leipzig/Dresden
Project director: Prof. Dr. Antje K?rner (Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine)
Term: 2024 – 2026
ScaDS.AI: Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig
Scientific Coordinator: Professor Wolfgang E. Nagel (TU Dresden)
Deputy: Professor Erhard Rahm (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science)
Term: 2014–2029
marEEshift: Marine Ecological-Economic Systems in the Western Baltic Sea and Beyond: Generic Models, Coordination and Communication
Project director: Professor Martin Quaas (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Resource Management)
Term: 2019–2023
XEOL-ID: Identification of Defects by Element-Specific Excitation of Optical Luminescence
Project director: Professor Claudia Sarah Schnohr (Faculty of Physics and Earth System Sciences, Felix Bloch Institute for Solid State Physics)
Term: 2019–2023
UndiMeS – Unterrichten mit digitalen Medien in Sachsen
Project director: Professor Silvia Sch?neburg-Lehnert (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Mathematics)
Term: 2019–2023
Hrich GPa ? High-Pressure Reactions for the Production of Hydrogen-Rich Hydrides as a Path to New Superconductors
Project director: Professor Holger Kohlmann (Faculty of Chemistry and Mineralogy, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry)
Term: 2020–2024
SO-SERVE: Social Service Engineering – Using synergies of work and service science to improve work on and with people
Sub-project: Technical Requirements Analysis, Design and Testing of a Framework Concept for Human-Centred and Efficient Service Work
Project director: Dr Stefan Kühne (University Computing Centre)
Term: 2020–2023
UltraSPEC2 - Ultrakompact Spectrometer
Project director: Prof. Dr. Marius Grundmann (Faculty for Physics and Geo Sciences, Felix-Bloch-Institute)
Term: 2020–2023
SharKI – Shared Tasks as an innovative approach to implementing AI and big data-based applications in the university landscape
Project director: Professor Sven Hofmann (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science)
Term: 2021 – 2024
InnoLogBat – E-mobility warehouse logistics: innovation lab for battery logistics in e-mobility
Subproject: Studies in the field of the automotive circular economy and ML-based service portfolio for the storage logistics of batteries for e-mobility
Project director: Professor Bogdan Franczyk (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Insitute for System Services)
Term: 2021 – 2025
K-M-I – Artificial and humanly intelligent: Competence center for transformed work in Western Saxony
Subproject: SKi-based data managment and data analytics in the pilot projects
Project directors: Professor Erhard Rahm (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Institute of Computer Science); Dr. Stefan Kühne (University Computing Center); Dr. Christoph Augenstein (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Insitute for System Services)
Term: 2021 – 2026
RaQuEI – Room temperature quantum sensors for electromobility
Project director: Professor Jan Berend Meijer (Faculty for Physics and Earth System Sciences, Felix-Bloch-Institute)
Term: 2021 – 2024
CoGeQ – Competetive German Quantum Computer
Project director: Prof. Dr. Jan Berend Meijer (Faculty for Physics and Geo Sciences, Felix-Bloch-Institute)
Term: 2022 – 2024
MANGAN – Intelligent metadata extraction and intuitive search for spoken audio content
Project director: Dr. Stephan Klingner (University Computing Center)
Term: 2022 – 2025
metsigon – Metal single crystal gas pressure and flow cells for operando neutron diffraction
Project director: Prof. Dr. Holger Kohlmann (Faculty for Chemistry and Mineralogy, Institute of inorganic Chemistry)
Term: 2022 – 2025
T!Raum-Initiative: ReWass – Regionalentwicklung und Wasserbewirtschaftung unter Wasserknappheit
Project director:Dr. Stefan Geyler (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management)
Term: 2024 – 2027
T!Raum-Initiative: ReWass – Regional development and water management under water scarcity
Project director: Dr. Stefan Geyler (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Resource Management)
Laufzeit: 2024 – 2027
LiquidInfo – AI-assisted information processing and transformation for meetings and presentations with the LiquidInfo-Box
Project director: Dr. Stephan Klingner (University Computing Centre)
Term: 2024 – 2027
Research Institute for Social Cohesion (FGZ)
Project director: Professor Matthias Middell (Leipzig Research Centre Global Dynamics and Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Global and European Studies Institute)
Term: 2020–2024
The Controversial Legacy of 1989: Appropriations Between Politicisation, Popularisation and the Historical-Political Conveyance of History
Project director: Professor Monika Wohlrab-Sahr (Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Institute for the Study of Culture)
Term: 2018–2022
RIRA – Radical Islam versus radical anti-Islam. Social polarization and perceived threats as driving factors of radicalization and co-radicalization processes in adolescents and post-adolescents
Project director: Professor Gert Pickel (Faculty for Theology, Institute of Practical Theology)
Term: 2020 – 2024
World knowledge - The production of world knowledge transformed
Project director: Matthias Middell (Global and European Studies Institute / ReCentGlobe)
Term: 2021 – 2025
Collaborative Project: Personalised Competence Development Through Scalable Mentoring Processes (tech4comp)
Network coordination and project director: Professor Heinz-Werner Wollersheim (Faculty of Education, Institute of Educational Sciences)
Term: 2018–2022
LemaS-PEP – Sub-Project 19: Personalisierte Entwicklungspl?ne (PEP) als Instrument einer individuellen Begabungsf?rderung: Nachhaltige Gestaltung von leistungsf?rdernden Lehr-Lern-Settings im Regelunterricht
LemaS-PEP is a sub-project of the “Leistung macht Schule” research network (LemaS). As part of this research network, Junior Professor Johannes Mayer (children’s literature and primary-level literary learning) at Leipzig University is conducting his own sub-project.
Project director: Professor Heinz-Werner Wollersheim (Faculty of Education, Institute of Educational Sciences)
Term: 2018–2022
MECAM: Merian Centre for Advanced Studies in the Maghreb
Project director: Professor J?rg Gertel (Faculty of Physics and Earth Sciences, Institute for Geography
Term: 2020–2023
PraxisdigitaliS: Shaping Digital Practice in Saxony
Project director: Professor Sonja Ganguin (Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, Institute of Communication and Media Studies)
Term: 2020–2023
DISKOS – Comparing multimodal source corpora of music
Project director: Prof. Dr. Josef Focht (Fakult?t for History, Arts and Regional Sciences; Music Instrument Museum of Leipzig University)
Term: 2021–2023
Re-Act – Rule of Law in Eastern Central Europe
Project director: Prof. Dr. Astrid Lorenz (Faculty for Social Sciences and Philosophy and ReCentGlobe)
Term: 2021–2024
ILEA Basis-T – Individual learning development analyses of basic skills in the inclusive transition from nursery to school
Project director: Professor Katrin Liebers, Professor Susanne Viernickel (Faculty of Education Science, Institute for Pedagogy and Didactics in Elementary and Primary Education)
Term: 2021 – 2024
ANCIP – African non-military conflict intervention practices
Project director: Prof. Dr. Ulf Engel (Faculty of History, Arts and Regional Studies; Institute of African Studies and ReCentGlobe).
Term: 2022 – 2026
LemaS-Transfer – Phase II. Performance makes school - transfer to the school landscape
Project director: Prof. Dr. Heinz-Werner Wollersheim (Institut for Educational Sciences, Faculty of Education)
Term: 2023 – 2027
MultiplEE: Sustainable Deployment of Renewable Energies with Multiple Environmental impacts – Policy Strategies to Address Environmental Trade-Offs of the German Energy Transition
Project director: Dr Paul Lehmann (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Infrastructure and Resource Management)
Term: 2017–2023
TOP – Development of a terminology- and ontology-based phenotyping framework (within the framework of SMITH)
Project director: Dr. Alexander Uciteli (Faculty of Medicine, Institute for Medical Informatics, Statistics and Epidemiology)
Term: 2021 – 2026
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
KIKS ? Artificial Intelligence for Clinical Studies
Project director: Professor Thomas Neumuth (Faculty of Medicine, Innovation Center Computer Assisted Surgery – ICCAS)
Term: 2020–2023
KliNet5G – Clinical Network via 5G
Project director: Professor Thomas Neumuth (Faculty of Medicine, Innovation Center for Computer Assisted Surgery – ICCAS)
Term: 2022 – 2025
Funding guideline to strengthen the transformation dynamics and new beginnings in the mining areas and at the coal-fired power plant sites
Project director: Professor Thomas Neumuth (Faculty of Medicine, Innovation Center for Computer Assisted Surgery – ICCAS)
Term: 2022 – 2026
EXIST: ISC-Leipzig: International Startup Campus
Project director: Professor Utz Dornberger (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, international SEPT programme)
Term: 2020–2024
b-ACT matter – Research and Transfer Center for bioactive Matter
Project directors: Professor Tilo Pompe (Faculty for Life Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry); Professoe Frank Cichos (Faculty for Physics and Life Sciences, Peter-Debye-Institute for Soft Matter Physics)
Term: 2021 – 2025
MoLeWa – Regional Transformation Network - Development and Implementation of a Regional Transformation Strategy in the Automotive and Supplier Industry and Industry-Related Service Sectors in the Transformation Region Leipzig
Project director: Prof. Dr. Bogdan Franczyk (Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Institute for Systems Services)
Term: 2022 – 2025
Federal Ministry for Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety
Lebendige Luppe – Promoting ecosystem services and biodiversity through floodplain revitalization in an urban context
Project directors: Professsor Sylke Nissen (Faculty for Social Sciences and Philosophy, Institute for Sociology); Professor Christian Wirth (Faculty for Life Sciences and iDiv)
Term: 2014 – 2023
Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
LIPSY – Leipziger Individual Placement and Support for People with Mental Illnesses
Project director: Prof. Dr. Steffi G. Riedel-Heller (Institut for Social Medicine, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leizpig Medical Center)
Term: 2022 – 2025
Endowed Chair of Social Psychiatric Participation Research, Department of Sociology
Project director: Prof. Dr. Georg Schomerus (Department of Psychatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leizpig Medical Center)
Term: 2024 – 2028
Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure
The Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany
Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture
In-Ovo-LC-MS — Application of endocrinological in-ovo sex determination in the domestic chicken using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) for the development of marketable concepts
Project director: Professor Almuth Einspanier (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Institute of Physiological Chemistry)
Term: 2018 – 2024
Saxon State Ministry of Science and the Arts
Innovative Strategies for BIoactive/Antibacterial AdvanceD ProsthEses
Project director: Professor Anette Beck-Sickinger (Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biochemistry)
Term: 2020–2023
Lung microbiome model - A modular microbiome host model of the lung from the 3D printer to study the pharmacokinetics of pulmonary drugs and xenobiotics
Project director: Prof. Dr. Leonard Kaysser (Institute for Drug Design, Faculty of Medicine)
Term: 2024 – 2026
MALT-Patch
Project director: Prof. Dr. Michaela Schulz-Siegmund (Institut for Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine)
Term: 2024 – 2026
Transfer Technologies for the Validation of Proteine- and Peptide Therapeutics
Project director: Jun-Prof. Dr. Clara Schoeder (Institute for Drug Design, Faculty of Medicine)
Term: 2024 – 2026
Biocatalysts for the recycling of polybutylene succinate (PBS) bioplastics
Project director: Dr. Georg Künze (Institute for Drug Design, Faculty of Medicine)
Term: 2024 – 2026
Establishment of a SpiNNaker2 cluster for cutting-edge research at Leipzig University
Project director: Prof. Dr. Jens Meiler (Institute for Drug Design, Faculty of Medicine)
Term: 2024 – 2026