Cologne scientists decipher how the antibody response of our immune system reacts to a coronavirus infection and prepares for future infections / Publications in ‘Immunity’ and ‘Science Immunology’

The University of Cologne awards prizes in the categories ‘Gender Equality’, ‘Family-conscious Leadership & Management’ and ‘Young Scientists’ to members of the UoC / The prize honours the first female student of the University of Cologne who enrolled at the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences in 1919

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved a Collaborative Research Centre (CRC) in the field of ophthalmology / CRCs on cell death, Arctic climate research and the variety of language use are being further funded

The University of Cologne (UoC) receives very good ratings in the student survey published by the Centre for Higher Education (CHE) for the Master's degree programmes Business Administration, Economics and Information Systems

Writing in “Nature Physics”, a research team has for the first time directly measured the so-called Kondo effect, which governs the behaviour of magnetic atoms surrounded by a sea of electrons: New observations with a scanning tunnelling microscope reveal the effect in one-dimensional wires floating on graphene.

Annual ranking of ‘Highly Cited Researchers’ by the Web of Science Group published as an indicator for outstanding research / University of Cologne represented by three biologists and five medical researchers

The Ranking of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation compares the numbers of stays of international scholars and scientists at German research institutions with funding from the Humboldt Foundation during the past five years.

Scientists have discovered in animal experiments that breast cancer cells heavily rely on vitamin B5 to grow and survive / Publication in ‘Nature Metabolism‘

Longevity of neutralizing antibodies is an essential factor for an effective HIV-1 vaccination / publication in ‘Nature Medicine’

New genetic data show that humans and sharks share bitter taste receptors, even though their evolutionary pathways separated nearly 500 million years ago / Published in ‘PNAS’