Supported projects since July 2006

Multi-valent Ions in Polyelectrolyte Brushes

Prof. Dr. Matthias Ballauff University of Bayreuth Physikalische Chemie I	Prof. Dr. Fyl Pincus University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Research Laboratory

Cellular Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography for Non-Invasive Monitoring of Cell Based Therapies

Dr. Frank Berger Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich	Dr. Dr. Sanjiv Sam Gambhir Stanford University Department of Radiology - Clark Center

Service-oriented development of reactive systems – a comparative study

Prof. Dr. Manfred Broy Technische Universität München	Prof. Dr. Ingolf Krueger University of California, San Diego Computer Science & Engineering

Cognition for Technical Systems - Fast Embedded Learning Algorithms based on Structured Matrices

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klaus Diepold Technische Universität München Chair for Data Processing	Prof. Dr. Thomas Kailath Stanford University Information Systems Laboratory

Novel Bioelectronic Devices Based on Group III-Nitrides

Dr. Martin Eickhoff Technische Universität München Walter Schottky Institut	Prof. Dr. Stacia Keller University of California, Santa Barbara Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Molecular Mechanisms of Cytoskeletal Remodeling and Force Generation in Living Cells

Prof. Dr. Ben Fabry Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Prof. Dr. Clare Waterman-Storer University of California, San Diego Scripps Research Institute - Department of Cell Biology

Monitoring of Meshed Optical Networks using Signal Processing in End-Terminals

Prof. Dr. Herbert F. Haunstein Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg	Prof. Dr. Alan Willner University of Southern California, Los Angeles Optical Communications Laboratory

The nodal/antinodal dichotomy in the high-temperature superconducting cuprates viewed by a functional renormalization group approach

Prof. Dr. Carsten Honerkamp University of Würzburg Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie	Prof. Dr. Dung-Hai Lee University of California, Berkeley Department of Physics

Development of Time Resolved Small Angle Hybrid-Methods for Protein:Nucleic complexes

Prof. Dr. Karl-Peter Hopfner Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich	Prof. Dr. John Tainer The Scripps Research Institute California

Cardiac C-arm CT: 4D Heart Motion Modeling and Evaluation Study

Prof. Dr. Joachim Hornegger Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Computer Science Department 5 - Pattern Recognition Lab	Prof. Dr. Rebecca Fahrig Stanford University Department of Radiology - Lucas Center

Regulatory role of α-Actinin-1 for the epithelial sodium channel (ENaC)

Prof. Dr. Christoph Korbmacher Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Institut für Zelluläre und Molekulare Physiologie	Dr. Aditi Bhargava University of California, San Francisco Departments of Surgury and Physiology

Development of a Novel 3-D Tracking Microscope

Prof. Don C. Lamb Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich Faculty for chemistry and pharmacy	Prof. Dr. Enrico Gratton University of California, Irvine The Henri Samueli School of Engineering

Global Multidisciplinary Design Research and Education

Prof. Dr. Christoph Maurer University of applied sciences München Fakultät 03 - Maschinenbau, Fahrzeugtechnik, Flugzeugtechnik	Prof. Dr. James Widmann California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo Department of Mechanical Engineering

Integrative User-Adaptive Information Portal

Prof. Dr. Günther Pernul University of Regensburg Lehrstuhl für Wirtschaftsinformatik I - Informationssysteme	Prof. Dr. Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

Pulsed Electron Avalanche Knife (PEAK): New Technology for Cataract Surgery

Dr. Siegfried Priglinger Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich	Dr. Daniel Palanker Stanford University Department of Ophthalmology

Function and antigenicity of conformers of the HIV- and Ebolavirus glycoproteins

PD Dr. Stefan Pöhlmann Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Nikolaus-Fiebiger-Center for Molecular Medicine	Prof. Dr. Vishwanath R. Lingappa Prosetta Corporation Medical Therapeutics

Veterinary Pharmaceuticals in Dairy Farm Groundwater

Dr. Michael Radke University of Bayreuth Department of Hydrology	Dr. Thomas Harter University of California, Davis John Muir Institute of the Environment, Dpt. of Land, Air & Water Resources

Single molecule kinetics of the Myosin V powerstroke

Prof. Dr. Matthias Rief Technische Universität München	Prof. Dr. James Spudich Stanford University School of Medicine - Dept. of Biochemistry

Development of specalized image processing software for the optimization of X-ray and Neutron Computed Tomography

Dr. Burkhard Schillinger Technische Universität München FRM-II	Daniel J. Schneberk Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) NDE Signal and Image Proc.

Gaze Statistics of Human Natural Exploration

Dr. Erich Schneider Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich Neurologische Klinik und Poliklinik im Klinikum München - Großhadern	Dr. Wolfgang Einhäuser-Treyer California Institute of Technology, Pasadena (CALTECH) Division of Biology

Quantum dot photon emitters with acoustically modulated photonic crystal

Prof. Dr. Achim Wixforth University of Augsburg Lehrstuhl für Experimentalphysik I	Prof. Dr. Pierre Petroff University of California, Santa Barbara Materials Department

The effects of ferritin on p53 in malignant glioma cells

Barbara Zielke Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Medizin II Prof. Dr. Jürgen Behrens Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Lehrstuhl für Experimentelle Medizin II	Dr. Dr. Rainer K. Brachmann University of California, Irvine Medical Center Division of Hematology/Oncology

Euro-GENI: Facilitating the New Global Internet

Prof. Dr. Hermann de Meer University of Passau	Prof. Dr. Scott Shenker University of California, Berkeley EECS - Electrical Engineering and Computer Science