Neurological diseases are on the rise – and as societies age, they affect an ever-increasing number of people, not only in Europe, but worldwide. The Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology (SyNergy) investigates how complex neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, stroke, and multiple sclerosis develop. Even hough these diseases differ in their clinical manifestations, overlapping mechanisms are involved in their development. For example, the immune system gets activated in dementia, while brain inflammation can cause nerve cells and their supporting glial cells to degenerate.
Using systems neurology as a new interdisciplinary approach, researchers can decipher the shared disease mechanisms of neurovascular, neurodegenerative, and neuroimmunological diseases and on this basis develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic approaches.
The SyNergy Cluster is a research consortium with the participation of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (LMU), the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the respective university hospitals, the Max Planck Institutes for Biochemistry, Biological Intelligence and Psychiatry, the Helmholtz Center Munich, and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. SyNergy has been funded as an Excellence Cluster since 2012.
(Planned) Support Activities for Postdocs
NOMIS-SyNergy Fellowships for Postdocs in Systems | Mentoring Programme | Specific Support for Postdocs | Postdoc Award | Biennial SyNergize Conference Organised by and for Postdocs and PhDs
Recruiting
Open positions are listed on the cluster’s job page. Information about the NOMIS-SyNergy Fellowships for Postdocs in Systems Neurology can be found here.
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