Research Sponsored by the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Duisburg-Essen

Collaborative Research Centres (German acronym: SFB)

• SFB 445: Nanoparticles from the Gas Phase: Creation, Structure and Properties
• SFB 491: Magnetic Heterolayers: Structure and Electronic  Transport (together with the Ruhr University Bochum)
• SFB 616: Energy Dissipation on Surfaces
• SFB / TR 12: Symmetries and Universality in Mesoscopic Systems
• SFB / TR 45: Periods, Moduli Spaces and Arithmetic of Algebraic Varieties

Priority Programmes

• SPP 1129: Epigenetics
• SPP 1151: Modulation of the Immune System and Metabolism by Severe Tissue Trauma
• SPP 1313: Biological Responses to Nanoscale Particles

Research Units

• FOR 511: Teaching of the Natural Sciences
• FOR 618: Aggregation of Small Molecules
• KFO 117: Optimizing Living Liver Donation 

Research Training Groups (Graduiertenkollegs)

• GK 1045: Modulation of Host Cell Functions for the Treatment of Viral and Bacterial Infections
• GK 1240: Nanotronics
• GK 1431: Transcription Control, Chromatin Structure and DNA Repair during Development and Differentiation
• GK 902: Teaching of the Natural Sciences

The University receives a total of approx. 19.8 million euros in research grants from the DFG annually.