Development and Regeneration, Degeneration, Aging and Cancer
This research program focuses on the functional analysis of regulatory processes in the context of a tissue or an organism during embryonic development, tissue regeneration, and tumorigenesis. In addition to in vitro organ cultures the model organisms Drosophila melanogaster, Xenopus laevis and mice are being studied.
Research Units
- Cell growth and proliferation
- Developmental Genetics
- Genetics of Skin Carcinogenesis
- Helmholtz Professorship Molecular Biology of the Cell I
- Molecular Embryology
- Junior Research Group Molecular Metabolic Control
- Signal Transduction and Growth Control
- Tumor- and Microenvironment
- Vascular Oncology and Metastasis



