Investigating the Gut-Brain Communication (GB.Com)
GB.Com
Get to know the CRU 5024
To learn more about our work in the Clinical Research Unit 5024, please see our introductory movie below (German original only). For information in English, please see About GB.Com
We are pleased to announce that two principal investigators from KFO 5024, Jürgen Winkler and Veit Rothhammer, as well as our clinician scientist, Martin Regensburger, will contribute to the upcoming DZI Patient Day 2026 at the University Hospital Erlangen.
Dr. Pooja Gupta Receives BMFTR Funding for AI–PREDICT Project!
We are pleased to announce that Dr. Pooja Gupta, PI of theZ01 project, has been awarded funding by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) under the 'Zukunft eHealth' funding initiative for her project ...Continue
We are looking for an intern to support the central project Z01 under the lead of Dr. Pooja Gupta.
The focus of this intership will be setting up a user interface for our research data. So if you are keen on joining our team, please read this job advertisement:
Prof. Dr. Friederike Zunke, a project leader in GB.com, and her colleague PD Dr. Philipp Arnold have made major strides in understanding Parkinson’s disease.
Mutations in the enzyme β-glucocerebrosidase (GCase) are known to increase the risk of Parkinson’s disease twentyfold and also cause Gauch...Continue
Elizaveta Gerasimova was awarded with the Top 15 Digital Oral Presentation Award at the ECCO25 congress in Berlin, Germany. The presentation was titled DOP068: Vedolizumab counteracts Parkinson’s disease-related brain pathology driven by gut-primed IBD T cells, you can also find out more about Eliza...Continue
Prof. Beate Winner, one of the lead scientist for the GB.com consortium participated in Palacios' podcast hosted by Gabriel Palacios.
The podcast highlight the gut-brain axis concept and its importance. You can listen to it on Youtube 🔴 (https://lnkd.in/euvXySKK) or Spotify 🟢(https://lnkd.in/ezqQKA...Continue
KFO5024 at the Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025
On October 25th, the KFO5024 team participated in this year’s Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften, an event that once again turned Erlangen into a hub of scientific discovery and public engagement.
Throughout the evening, our researchers presented...Continue
On the occasion of World Parkinson's Day on April 11, 2025, Prof. Beate Winner, spokesperson of KFO5024 - GB.Com, and Prof. Jürgen Winkler, project leader within the research group, were guests of the Süddeutsche Zeitung.
A special feature including the interview was published in the nationwide edi...Continue
