DFG extends funding for research group on DNA viruses

The research group FOR 5200 “Disrupt - Evade - Exploit: Control of Gene Expression and Host Response by DNA Viruses (DEEP-DV)” is being funded by the German Research Foundation for a further four years with a total of 5.3 million euros.

Prof. Nicole Fischer (Associate LIV Group Leader and Director of the Institute of Molecular Virology and Tumor Virology at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf) will be the spokesperson for the research group together with Prof. Melanie Brinkmann (TU Braunschweig). 

DEEP-DV has succeeded in creating an interdisciplinary platform that combines state-of-the-art technologies - from single-cell analysis and RNP proteomics to high-performance bioinformatic analysis. The aim of the research is to gain an in-depth understanding of the mechanisms by which DNA viruses manipulate gene expression in host cells - with potential implications for new therapeutic approaches for acute and chronic viral infections.

In addition to Prof. Nicole Fischer, two other researchers from the Leibniz Institute of Virology, Prof. Dr. Adam Grundhoff (Head of the LIV Research Department Virus Genomics) and Prof. Jens B. Bosse (Head of the Associated LIV Group Quantitative & Molecular Virology), are involved in DEEP-DV.