GBM Studiengruppe Autophagie

Welcome to the Homepage of the German Autophagy Association

With great enthusiasm and dedication our German autophagy association was founded by Tassula Proikas-Cezanne (Tübingen), Christian Behrends (Munich), Ivan Dikic (Frankfurt) and Michael Thumm (Göttingen) at the 40^th FEBS Congress in Berlin, Germany, 6^th July 2015. BIOspektrum 2015

We belong to the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM) where we established the subsection “Autophagy” and are referred to as „GBM Studiengruppe Autophagie“ GBM – Studiengruppen

Our goals are to promote research on the topic of autophagy in Germany, encourage cooperations between research teams in Germany and abroad, facilitate interactions with autophagy networks and associations in other countries, and to support science outreach activities on the topic of autophagy.

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"I feel that we have returned to the starting point of autophagy research by going back to the original, fundamental questions—when, how, and what is degraded by autophagy?”

From the Nobel Lecture, December 7, 2016

Yoshinori Ohsumi
Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

2016 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy