Falko Mohrs, Minister of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, with Prof. Dr. Urs Valentin Nägerl, Director of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the UMG and first “Lower Saxony Professorship”, and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brück, Director of Research and Teaching and Spokesman of the Board of Directors of the UMG. Photo: umg/spförtner

First “Lower Saxony Professorship” goes to the University Medical Center Göttingen

MBExC member Prof. Dr. Urs Valentin Nägerl, Director of the Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) since 1 September 2024, has been awarded the first “Lower Saxony Professorship”. The funding line of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation aims to attract leading scientists to Lower Saxony as a center of science. Prof. Nägerl will receive 3.7 million euros in funding over a period of five years.

 

Link to the press release article (in German)