BIGS DrugS
Bonn International Graduate School of Drug Sciences
You have decided to pursue a PhD in the field of drug science - BIGS DrugS is the perfect addition! We offer a modern, structured, three-year training program. Scientists from the two large faculties of the University of Bonn, the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine, jointly organize this interdisciplinary training program and ensure the high quality of the program.
Interdisciplinary
at the highest level
The key characteristic of the BIGS DrugS program is the long-standing successful collaboration between scientists from the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the Faculty of Medicine.
PhD Training Program
The BIGS DrugS training program is the perfect addition to your individual PhD project. You will obtain your PhD degree in the Faculty of Mathematics & Natural Sciences of Bonn University. Scientific exchange beyond your own field will broaden your horizon and open up your mind for other scientific perspectives. From the very beginning you are not on your own - you are part of the BIGS DrugS community!
If you have a supervisor, you can participate in our program at any time.
News and Events of BIGS Drugs
The two-day BIGS DrugS Retreat included a workshop on "idea mining", a lecture on blood alcohol analysis, poster presentations by the doctoral students with group discussion, a guided tour of the Altenberg Cathedral and, last but not least, a lively get-together on the first evening. The retreat was held on October 16th and 17th, 2024 in the „Jugendbildungsstätte Haus Altenberg“ in the village of Odenthal.
BIGS-DrugS PhD student Carolin Keip presented her PhD project on the quality assurance of medication analyses at the Posterwalk of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG) and took third place. Congratulations! The DPhG poster walk took place for the first time at this year's Expopharm in Munich on October 12.
Current program - For more than 30 years the Pharmaceutical Colloquium offers excellent lectures on current topics in drug discovery and related fields.
A low-dose, long-term dose of cannabis can not only reverse ageing processes in the brain, but also has an anti-ageing effect. BIGS DrugS member PD Dr. Andras Bilkei-Gorzo together Researchers from the University Hospital Bonn (UKB), the University of Bonn and a team from Hebrew University (Israel) have now been able to show this in mice. They found the key to this in the protein switch mTOR, whose signal strength has an influence on cognitive performance and metabolic processes in the entire organism. The results have now been presented in the journal “ACS Pharmacology & Translation Science”.
As is now a good tradition, the PhD Award Ceremony took place as part of the BIGS DrugS Kick-Off Meeting on July 1st.
As in previous years, Bayer AG, in cooperation with the Pharma Center Bonn and the Limes Institute, awards three prizes for outstanding PhD theses in the field of pharmaceutical research in 2023.
BIGS DrugS PhD student Carolin Keip received the Poster Award of the Dr August and Dr Anni Lesmüller Foundation for her poster with the title „Entwicklung von Instrumenten zur Qualitätssicherung von Medikationsanalysen in öffentlichen Apotheken“ at the Annual Meeting of the German Society of Clinical Pharmacy (DGKPha) on November 19th, 2023. Congratulate on this award!
BIGS DrugS graduate Dr. Tobias Claff received one of the two Carl Wilhelm Scheele Prizes 2023. The prize is awarded annually by the "Deutsche Pharmazeutische Gesellschaft" (DPhG) and honors outstanding doctoral theses.
Principal Investigators
The Principal Investigators of BIGS DrugS are leading researchers in different fields of pharma-research.
The Members of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences are leading scientistsfrom the two institutes of the Bonn Pharmacy Section (Pharmaceutical Institute & Institute of Pharmaceutical Biology). Departments:
- Clinical Pharmacy
- Drug Regulatory Affairs
- Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Pharmaceutical Biochemistry & Bioanalytics
- Pharmaceutical Biology
- Pharmaceutical & Cell Biological Chemistry
- Pharmaceutical & Medicinal Chemistry
- Pharmaceutical Technology & Biopharmacy
Members of the Faculty of Medicine are leading scientists in the following institutes:
- Institute for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Insitute for Experimental Hematology & Transfusion Medicine
- Insitute for Molecular Psychiatry
- Insitute forPharmaceutical Microbiology
- Insitute for Pharmacology & Toxicology
- Insitute for Physiology I
Moreover, members of the Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM) and of the “German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases” (DZNE) also act as Prinicipal Investigators. The wide range of research fields and topics, and the international network represent a great benefit for the PhD students.
What do Graduates say about BIGS DrugS?
Our graduates work
- at universities in Germany and abroad
- in the pharmaceutical industry
- in health institutions
- as patent attorneys and as business consultants.
We asked graduates about their opinion of the BIGS DrugS program.
Contact us
If you should have any questions, suggestions or comments about BIGS DrugS, our researchers, or our program, please do not hesitate to contact us, preferably by email. We could then schedule a phone call, zoom or personal meeting.
