Curriculum
Doctoral track caters to trainees in pursuit of a doctoral degree, including PhD students, Dr. med. (dent.) students and other pre-doctoral students. This two-year coursework consists of monthly seminars and irregular site-visits.
General seminar structure is outlined in a graphic below. Each monthly seminar will focus on a different topic related to a lung disease or specific techniques employed in a medical lung research and include two back-to-back presentations: covering the clinical aspects of the disease and the basic experimental research in the area. Lectures will be followed by a general discussion and presentations by enrolled students. Refreshments will be provided during a break.
Time: Wednesday evening, 17:00 – 19:00 s.t.
Venue: Albert-Fraenkel-Saal, Thoraxklinik, Röntgenstraße 1, Heidelberg
Seminar schedule SoSe2026 and WiSe 2026/2027
| Date | Topic | Speaker | Lecture title |
| 08.04.2026 | Year in review | TLRCollege leadership | NA |
| 13.05.2026 | Acute respiratory distress syndrome | Mascha Fiedler-Kalenka (TLRC) | Clinical aspects of ARDS |
| Istvan Vadasz (UGMLC) | Basic mechanisms of ARDS | ||
| 03.06.2026 | Epidemiological threats and pandemic preparadness | TBD | Epidemiological and environmental threats to lung health |
| Claudia Denkinger (UKHD) | Pandemic preparedness | ||
| 07.10.2026 | Lung function | TBD | Lung funcional measurements - airways & parenchyma |
| Celine Weiss (UKHD) | Lung funcional measurements - pulmonary hemodynamics | ||
| 04.11.2026 | Lung progenitors and lung cell-based therapies | Ana Pardo (UGMLC) | Lung resident progenitor cells |
| Ruth Olmer (BREATH) | Cell-based therapies for lung disease | ||
| 02.12.2026 | Lung development | Paolo Panza (UGMLC) | Fetal lung development |
| Ivana Mizik (TLRC) | Postnatal lung development | ||
| 13.01.2027 | Asthma | Frederik Trinkmann (TLRC) | Clinical aspects of asthma |
| Holger Garn (UGMLC) | Basic mechanisms of asthma | ||
| 10.02.2027 | Viral pneumonia | Susanne Herold (UGMLC) | Clinical aspects of viral pneumonia |
| Petr Chlanda (BIOQUANT, University Heidelberg) | Basic mechanisms of viral pneumonia |
02.04.2025 | Lung Cancer | Michael Thomas (TLRC) | Clinical aspects of lung cancer | Petros Christopoulos |
Ursula Klingmuller (TLRC) | Basic mechanisms of lung cancer | |||
30.04.2025 | Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease | Franziska Trudzinski (TLRC) | Clinical aspects of COPD | Konstantina Kontigianni |
Silke Meiners (ARCN) | Basic mechanisms of COPD | |||
04.06.2025 | Pulmonary fibrosis | Markus Polke (TLRC) | Clinical aspects of pulmonary fibrosis | Buschulte, Katharina |
Isis Fernandez (CPC) | Basic mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis | |||
08.10.2025 | Pulmonary hypertension | Ekkehard Grünig (TLRC) | Clinical aspects of pulmonary hypertension | Benjamin Egerlauf |
Christina Eichstaed (TLRC) | Basic mechanisms of pulmonary hypertension | |||
12.11.2025 | Cystic fibrosis | Olaf Sommerburg (TLRC) | Clinical aspects of Cystic fibrosis | Lena Wucherpfennig |
Mirjam Stahl (Berlin) | Basic mechanisms of Cystic fibrosis | |||
09.12.2025 | Lung Cell Atlas | Jonas Schupp (BREATH) | Applicability and utility of the lung atlases in translational lung research | Michael Scherer |
Malte Lücken (CPC-M) | Applicability and utility of the lung atlases in translational lung research | |||
14.01.2026 | Preclinical imaging in lung and heart | Christian Dullin (TLRC) | Applications of radiological imaging in translational lung research | Zhe Zhou-Suckow |
Baktybek Kojonazarov (UGMLC) | Preclinical imaging in lung and heart | |||
04.02.2026 | Bronchopulmonary dysplasia | Christian Gille (TLRC) | Clinical aspects of BPD | Natascha Köstlin-Gille |
Rory Morty (TLRC) | Basic mechanisms of BPD |