Snippets of the Network

On 11 Octo­ber 2023, the Max We­ber Pro­gram logo will re­ceive an up­dated color scheme to align with the Elite Net­work's brand label, which was up­dated in 2022.

The kick-off sem­inar of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram "Ad­vanced Signal Pro­cess­ing and Communi­cati­ons Engi­neer­ing (ASC)" ena­bles new stu­dents to get in touch with each other and their future pro­fes­sors before the start of the se­mes­ter.

For the 5th time, the stu­dents were able to show what they had learned dur­ing their stud­ies in Scien­tific Com­puting by work­ing on pro­jects from indus­try and busi­ness areas. A recent award win­ner was pre­sent as a spe­cial guest.

Stu­dents of the of the Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram “MINT-Leh­ramt PLUS” spent two weeks on Hel­go­land dur­ing an excur­sion to organ­ize a work­shop there on the topic of "Ocean Acid­ifica­tion" in the spirit of edu­cation for sus­taina­ble de­velopment.

The Presi­dent of the Ba­varian State Par­lia­ment, Ilse Aign­er, invit­ed more than 3,000 guests to this year's sum­mer recep­tion of the Ba­varian State Par­lia­ment at Schleißheim New Palace - in­clud­ing ten mem­bers of the Elite Net­work of Bavaria.

In what is one of the most estab­lished tradi­tions in the Elite Net­work, the 2023 edi­tion of the Elite Cup took place this year in Mu­nich. Members across the Elite Net­work gath­ered to enjoy in a nice Sat­urday of foot­ball, food and friendly com­peti­tion.

Lena Schorr, a PhD stu­dent in the Puschhof Lab at the Ger­man Can­cer Re­search Cen­ter (DKFZ) in Hei­del­berg, at­tend­ed the 72nd Lindau No­bel Lau­reate Meet­ing from 25 to 30 June 2023 at the invi­tation of the Elite Net­work of Ba­varia.

This year, the Max We­ber Pro­gram sent out invita­tions to its tradi­tional sum­mer cele­bra­tion in the beau­tiful Alt­mühl­tal. A well-over 150 guests ac­cept­ed the invita­tion to cele­brate to­geth­er, meet other schol­arship hold­ers and get to know the uni­versi­ty town of Eichstätt.

Dr. Jan Böt­tcher’s In­terna­tional Junior Re­search Group has deci­phered a mechanism that switches off im­mune re­sponses in tu­mors and points to new tar­gets for can­cer thera­py.

On 3 and 4 June 2023, around 40 schol­arship hold­ers of the Max We­ber Pro­gram spent a won­derful week­end at the Youth Hos­tel Augsburg. They ex­plored gen­der-sensitive medi­cine from dif­ferent per­spec­tives.