FerrOs Shines at 10th Congress of the International BioIron Society in Montreal, Quebec, Canada Our FerrOs research group made a strong appearance at the recent congress of the BioIron Society in Montreal. Researchers from every location within our group traveled to the event to present their projects, highlighting the innovative and diverse work being done across our consortium. Peter Steele-Perkins (group of Maja Vujic-Spasic, Ulm, P1) and Tiago Oliveira (group of Sandro Altamura, Heidelberg, P6) gave oral presentations while Vanessa Passin (group of Martina Rauner, Dresden; P3) and Isabelle Hornung (group of Andrea [...]

On December 5, the final event of the 2nd course of the mentoring program for female students and early career researchers took place in the Fritz-Foerster-Bau at TU Dresden.

We are proud to share that Maria Ledesma Colunga, PostDoc in the BoneLab and recipient of our FerrOs start-Up Grant, was awarded for the second-best oral presentation at the European Iron Club Meeting in Toulouse in April 2024.

On April 22nd, we met in Toulouse/France for our 4th FerrOs Retreat. Since the European Iron Club Meeting this year took place in Toulouse from April 23rd to 26th, we used the chance to interact with international experts and combined it with our fourth FerrOs retreat.

Tiago Carvalho Oliveira won the "Best Oral Presenation" Prize at BioIron 2023!

From May 9 – 11, we met in Frankfurt/Main for our 3rd FerrOs Retreat.

We proudly present the new article by Philipp Kastl, Sandro Altamura, Martina Muckenthaler, and Ursula Klingmüller from our FerrOs Research Group on "Erythropoietin-driven dynamic proteome adaptations during erythropoiesis prevent iron overload in the developing embryo" that was just published in Cell Reports (https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2211-1247%2822%2901192-5).

At our 2nd FerrOs Retreat Alessa Wagner was awarded with our „Back To Science” Grant to join the lab of Prof. Maja Vujic-Spasic in Ulm after her maternal leave.

On June 29th – July 1st we met in Riederau at the Ammersee at our 2nd FerrOs Retreat. Since we were not able to meet face-to-face at our 1st retreat, we were all more than happy to get together in real life and listen to the presentations of our eight FerrOs projects.

Since the University of Pennsylvania announced their breakthrough discovery of the FOP gene ACVR1 at April 23, 2006, this date is now celebrated as International FOP Awareness Day! This year marks the 16th anniversary of the discovery of the FOP gene meaning 16 years of hope, progress and determination to find a cure.