Sabrina Küspert (Section Biomedicine), Alireza Keikhosravi (Section MEE), Maya Fürstenau - Sharp (Section BIOMED), Martina Frank (Section CBB), Christoph Morgenthaler (Section CBB) and Fabian Hermann (Section BIOMED) successfully defended their PhD thesis in January and February 2014. We congratulate them for their excellent performance and wish them all the best for their future career.