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The Graduate
Research Program "Roles
of Eicosanoids in Biology and
Medicine" is a joint academic
and research venture between
the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University
in Frankfurt and the Karolinska
Institute in Stockholm.
Speaker of the Graduate Program
is Prof. D. Steinhilber,
University of Frankfurt. The
academic goal of the graduate
school is to enable qualified
graduate students/PhD students
and postdoctoral fellows interested
in following a career in molecular
medicine, pharmacy and biology
to extend their understanding
of the physiological and pathophysiological
roles of eicosanoids in a multidisciplinary
scientific environment with
access to a wide spectrum of
established methods. Scientific
aims of the program are to investigate
the molecular mechanisms of
action of eicosanoids using
complementary approaches (chemical,
biochemical, molecular, pharmacological,
physiological and clinical)
designed by both institutions
involved in this program.
Eicosanoids are lipid autacoids
which play a key role in a number
of physiological and pathophysiological
events, during inflammatory
reactions, neoplastic transformation
and proliferation. Pioneering
work in the field has been performed
by the co-applicants from the
Karolinska Institute, who are
members of the group directed
by Professor Bengt Samuelsson.
Prof. Samuelsson was awarded
the Nobel Prize for his discovery
and elucidation of essential
pathways and modes of action
of eicosanoids in inflammation
and cancer. Collaboration between
the institutions in Frankfurt
and Stockholm began approximately
14 years ago, and has been strengthened
by the establishment of the
European Graduate Research Program.
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