funded by von-Behring-Roentgen Stiftung

Congratulations to Britta who secured a travel grant covering the cost for her participation in the 20^th European Testis Workshop held 23-27 May in Obidos, Portugal.

Nice going!

May 2018

for the ICS 2018 in Philadelphia, USA

Mathias successful application for the ADB Travel Grant and the Monash Travel Grant (Study away) enabled him to attend the 48^th Annual Meeting of the International Continence Society. Congratulations!

August 2018

IRTG fellow investigator awarded with the highest recognition of the Federal Republic of Germany

For his outstanding honorary commitment in the field of Medicine, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Weider, dean of the Medical Faculty, received the Order of Merit first grade conferred by Volker Bouffier Minister-President of the state of Hesse.

August 2018

Poster Prize awarded at the ESA-SRB Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 19-22 Aug 2018

Congratulations to Christine (IRTG project 7) who won this year’s  Early Career Researcher Poster award with her poster entitled "Investigation of intratesticular inflammatory responses in humans and mice implicates activin A as a potential inducer of fibrosis in the testis". Bravo!

August 2018

Kate Loveland receives the Fuller W. Blazer SSR International Scientist Award

The Fuller W. Bazer SSR International Scientist Award recognises an outstanding international scientist who has consistently demonstrated excellence in research and graduate education at an institution outside of North America and who demonstrates outstanding potential for leading and directing scientific research overseas.

The award will be conferred to Kate at the SSR 2018 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, US.

It's a great achievement and a well-merited recognition of your superb performance, Kate.

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June 2018

ASRI Travel Grand Award for ASRI-CSI Annual Meeting,  June 28 - July 01 2018 in Shanghai (CN)

Congratulations to Siv and Dana (both IRTG project 2) who receive that travel grant to attend the ASRI-CSI Annual Meeting and to present their papers.

Siv's being entitled "Delineating the testicular leukocyte population in the adult mouse"

Dana's being entitled "The testicular germ cell tumor line (TCam-2) drives M0 and M1 macrophages (THP-1derived monocytes) into the immunosuppressive M2 phenotype"

This is a fantastic achievement  for IRTG with students taking home two of the 10 travel grants that were issued. Great job, ladies!

April 2018

Mathias honoured with the best poster award at the 7th DVR-Congress held 7-9 Dec 2017 in Munich

 Congrats to Mathias who received an award for his poster then selected for oral presentation.

Title of poster: "Ejaculation disorders and treatment of BPH: Disturbed function of prostate ducts and seminal vesicles by alpha1-adrenergic receptor blocker tamsulosin but not by PDE5 inhibitors".

Nice going!

December 2017

Britta Klein has been awarded for the best talk at the 1. Science Day of the medical department

Congratulations to Britta, who received an award for the best talk in the section "basic / theoretical research".
Britta agreed to be a speaker at the First Science Day of the medical department at JLU.

Good job!

November 2017

Sivanjah awarded as best speaker at the 10^th GGL annual conference

Congratulations to Sivanjah winning the award for her outstanding talk "Deciphering the Immune Cell Composition in the Adult Mouse Testis"

All talks are evaluated via online voting by the complete audience. Well done, Siv!

September 2017

to attend the US Endocrine Society Meeting and its Early Career Forum Workshop

Congrats to Sophie who received the Early Career Forum Award and the Australasian Women in Endocrinology Early Career Travel Grant for her participation in both meetings, held March 17-19, 2018.

Well done, Sophie!

March 2018

funded by CamBioScience

Congratulations to Elham who received a travel grant supporting her participation in the "CRISPR Genome Editing: Design & Strategy" workshop held 18-19 June 2018 at Cambridge, UK.

Nice going!

May 2018

for the "9^th Copenhagen Workshop on Testicular Germ Cell Cancer" in October 2018

Dana's successful application for a 2018 CRH Travel Award (Centre for Reproductive Health, Hudson Institute of Medical Research) enables her to attend one of the most interesting conferences in her field of research. Well done, Dana!

May 2018

Britta & Constanze have been honored with awards at the 10^th Meeting of the NYRA

The Award for best abstract was awarded to both of them at the at the meeting of the "Network for Young Researchers in Andrology" taking place in Brussels, September 11-13.
The award is linked with a ISA Travel Grant over 500€ each.

Moreover, Conni's oral presentation of her doctoral research has been rewarded with the price best speaker!

Congratulations to Britta and Conni!

September 2017

Dana Püschel received a travel grant to participate at the Annual Scientific Meetings of the Endocrine Society of Australia and the Society for Reproductive Biology 2017

Congrats to Dana for her travel grant to these annual meetings, August 27-30, in Perth where she held her oral presentation on "Neoplasia in human testis: potential role and functional polarization of M1 and M2 macrophages"

August 2017

Three Minutes Oral Thesis Award at the 8th Annual Australian Society for Medical Research.

Sophie gave a compelling presentation on her thesis in just three minutes. Congratulations to her for the highly commended presentation of her thesis the award!

June 2017

ISA Travel Grant for meeting in Denmark

Britta has secured the ISA travel grant to attend the 11^th International Congess of Andrology, held 06-209 May 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark

Good job!

May 2017

Christine obtained a travel grant by "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Andrologie"

Congratulations to Christine who received a travel grant covering the cost for attending her participation at the ICA2017 taking place Mai 06 - 09, 2017 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Good job!

April 2017

Sophie Lee honoured with best poster award in London

Congratulations to Sophie who received the best poster award at the congress of the European Association of Urology, March 24-28, in London.

Title of the poster:
Myogenic tone is significantly increased in benign prostatic hyperplasia and can be attenuated by sildenafil and tamsulosin, with outcome associated to patient age and prostate volume

March 2017

Visit at Monash to exchange knowlege of administrative tasks

JLU Administrator, Pia Jürgens, spent 10 fruitful days in Melbourne. Key objective of her visit was to build an in-depth working knowledge of procedures for student enrollment, management during candidature and at the time of thesis submission. 

November 2016

Presentation award at student symposium

Sophie secured the second best presentation of 3rd year students at the Annual Postgraduate Student Symposium Nov 9, 2016.  Congrats!

November 2016