ATLAS - Talent Academy for TransLAtional Science

Projects offered

ATLAS CALL 2026

Our next call for applications will open on August 3, 2026. As soon as the call opens, you will find the projects offered below.

For more information regarding the application as well as the selection process, please visit the pages: How to apply? and Evaluation and selection.

Please note: Start of the PhD projects in the 2026 call will be in the beginning of 2027 at the earliest. The final selection of PhD candidates will take place during an onsite interview event in December 2026.

Previous ATLAS CALLS

Please check out the PhD projects from our previous calls to get an idea of the program’s research focus.

Call Title of the project Unit/Location
2025 CYTOSAR - Harnessing mRNA-encoded CYTOkines for immunotherapy in SARcoma TRON (Mainz, Germany)
2025 X-FILES - Exploring the Fusion-dependent Immune Landscape and Epigenetic modulation in Sarcoma TRON (Mainz, Germany)
2025 ASPIRE - Alternative Splicing Products as Triggers of Immunogenic Response in Cancer TRON (Mainz, Germany)
2025 AlphaVLP - Unleashing the potential of in situ generated alphavirus-like particles by trans-amplifying RNA TRON (Mainz, Germany)
2024 NEPAC - Decoding the role of neurons in pancreatic cancer TRON (Mainz, Germany)
2024 SyLVa - Joint systemic and local vaccine approaches in a novel murine model of papillomavirus-conditioned cervical cancer TRON (Mainz, Germany)
2024 TSIM - Deciphering the molecular intricacies of T cell receptor triggering using multi-scale molecular dynamics simulations TRON (Mainz, Germany)
2024 RNA-TANGO for same cell RNA co-delivery BioNTech (Mainz, Germany)
2024 MODCOM - Identification of an immunomodulator combinatorial therapy for inflammatory diseases BioNTech (Mainz, Germany)