Welcome to the website of the Collaborative Research Center 815

Since January 2009 the DFG is funding the Collaborative Research Center 815 at the Goethe University in Frankfurt.

In past redox signaling has been often studied under pathological conditions like oxidative stress. It is a new concept to recognize it as a universal element of cellular signaling. It can be seen as a fundamental control mechanism like phosphorylation/ dephosphorylation in reversible regulating and coordinating cellular functions.

Our goal is to elucidate the intra- and intercellular role of redox signaling under physiological conditions and its role during the switch to pathological processes. Our findings will help to create new research approaches to find new and/ or more targeted treatments of numerous diseases.