Since 23.04.2013 the YIN was strengthened by three new members: Jprof. Dr. Anne Koziolek at the Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization, Dr. Gary Davidson, group leader at the Institute of Toxicology and Genetics, and Dr.rer.nat Emmanuel Müller, YIG at the Institute for Program Structures and Data Organisation.

With the decision of the last YIN-Member-Meeting on 19.03.2013 the terms of affiliation have been extended. From now on all official KIT- Junior Research Group Leader (KIT-Nachwuchsgruppenleiter) as well as Group Leaders with temporary contracts, who have personnel responsibility can join the network.

On 19.03.2013 Dr. Guillaume Delaittre (BMBF), Institute of Toxicology and Genetics and Dr. Benjamin Flavel (Helmholtz) Institute of Nanotecnology were accepted as members of the YIN.

Within the current issue of the Newsletter of the Helmholtz-Association (hermann) an interview with the title “New detection of cosmic rays” with the YIN member Tim Huege has been published within the section research. The YIN was also mentioned.

Dr. Pavel Levkin (YIN member since 2010) and Dr. Gary Davidson have founded a biotech company – Incella GmbH.

Incella GmbH develops, produces and commercializes worldwide novel highly efficient transfection and gene-delivery reagents for variety of biotechnological and pharmaceutical applications.

Dr. Pavel Levkin and Dr. Steffen Scholpp, who won a YIN start-up grant for high risk project, could finalize their work with a publication in Biomaterials in 2013. By usage of polymer film-based cell culture systems, they could mimic gradients of signaling molecules in vitro.