He applied for a scholarship by the Fonds der Chemischen Industrie and was selected.

Tobias Claff received a lecture award at the PhD student and postdoc meeting of the German Pharmaceutical Society (DPhG).

As in previous years the Bayer AG, in cooperation with the Pharma Zentrum Bonn and the Limes Institute, has awarded three prizes for outstanding PhD theses in the field of pharmaceutical research to three excellent young scientists in 2020. 

Marie Therese Hopp studies the role of the blood component heme in covid-19 infections. Christian Steinebach, Fabian Baltes and Lukas Gockel are researching the inhibition of Sars-CoV-2 replication.

PhD student Tobias Claff from the working group of PZB spokesperson Prof. Dr. Christa E. Müller, in collaboration with research colleagues from Shanghai, Brussels Canada and the USA, was able to use X-ray crystallography to show which parts of the receptor are responsible for binding the active substances. With this knowledge, it should be possible to develop substances that activate only DOP.

For 2018, Bayer AG in cooperation with the Pharma Center Bonn (PZB) and the Limes Institute again awarded three doctoral prizes. The award winners are former BIGS DrugS PhD students.