TransCard Research School

Mission Statement

The TransCard program trains excellent young researchers in translational medicine with the goal to elucidate genetic and molecular mechanisms that underlie cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and to transfer these findings from bench to bedside.

 

CMD Program

The program on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases (CMD) is currently the smallest of six existing research programs of the Helmholtz Society (HGF) dedicated to biomedical research. Three HGF research institutes collaborate in the CMD program: the Max-Delbrück-Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, the German Cancer Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, and the Center for Biomaterial Development (CBM) of GKSS, Campus Teltow. In addition, TransCard cooperates with the Freie Universität Berlin (FU Berlin) and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) as well as with the Hubrecht Laboratory in Utrecht, Netherlands.

 

 

 

MDC

The MDC is an interdisciplinary institute dedicated to research into three of the most devastating types of disease that affect our society: cardiovascular diseases, neurological disorders, and cancer. Research on cardiovascular diseases is a major focus at the MDC with particular emphasis on disorders of the heart and kidney. The MDC coordinates the CMD program.

 

Application Round new PhD Positions now open

The MDC is currently advertising for new PhD students. If you are interested to apply, please follow this link for more information and online application. To view the TransCard advertisement poster, please click here.

Announcements

News

New TransCard Faculty member

Mathias Treier has joined the TransCard faculty. If you are interested in his research focus, please join his TransCard lecture on April 17th in the Walter Friedrich Room at 9:00.

New TransCard Student

Julianna Rugor (AG Dechend) has joined the TransCard program. Welcome!

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New TransCard Faculty member

Daniela Panakova joined the ranks of TransCard faculty. If you are interested in what she does, join her TransCard lecture on December 13th in the Walter Friedrich Room at 9:00.

New TransCard Student

Lukasz Przybyl (AG Dechend) joined the TransCard program. Welcome!

TransCard lecturer award

Ralf Dechend was chosen by TransCard students as the best lecturer 2010-2011. Congratulations!

End of year Dinner and Movie

Please join us on July 12th at 17:00 in the Walter Friedrich Room for pizza and a movie​. Send a brief email to transcard@mdc-berlin.de if you want to join.

Lecture rescheduled

Lecture of Prof. Niendorf will be on June 16th at 9:00 in the Walter Friedrich Room

News feature and publication Katharina da Silva Lopez

Check out the news feature on Katharina da Silva Lopez (formerly Katharina Rost, AG Gotthardt): http://jcb.rupress.org/content/early/2011/05/04/jcb.1934if

New TransCard student

From May 9th, Doaa Mugahid started as a PhD student in the Gotthardt lab. Welcome!​

Lecture Heiko Krude postponed

The Lecture of Heiko Krude will be held on May 12th at 9:00 in the Walter Friedrich Room (not on May 3rd as originally planned).

Igor Pongrac and Sebastian Schäfer win TransCard poster awards

Igor Pongrac (AG Spagnoli) and Sebastian Schäfer (AG Hübner) have jointly won the 2011 TransCard Phd retreat poster award. Congratulations!

TransCard & CMD Retreat

The joint TransCard and CMD retreat will be taking place fro 7-9 april and will be held in Neuruppin like last year. For more information please contact us.

Prizes for Katja Herzog

Katja Herzog wins a scholarship from the Christiane Nuesslein-Volhard foundation for young women in science with children. She was also awarded the Woman in Science award L'oreal prize. Congratulations!

Lecture by Nikolaus Rajewsky

The lecture of Nikolaus Rajewsky scheduled for February 8th, 2011 will be taken over by Zhuo Fang.

New TransCard students

2 new students have joined the TransCard program: Katharina Fuchs (AG Niendorf) and Jennifer Jammrath (AG Saumweber. Welcome!

New TransCard studentt

Deimante Simaite (AG Hübner) joins the TransCard program. Welcome!

PhD defense

JingJing Zhang (AG Seyfried) has successfully defended his thesis. Congratulations!

New TransCard students

2 new students have joined the TransCard program: Katja Herzog (AG Willnow), Irina Palatnik (AG Niendorf). Welcome!

Kickoff season 2010-2011

The TransCard start of the season kickoff will take place on October 11th. Pleasecome meet the new students and catch up with us. Like last year, the event will take place in the MDC communication center, 3rd floor from 16:30 onwards. Please let us know if you intend to come (transcard@mdc-berlin.de)

New TransCard students

4 new students have joined the TransCard program: Jennifer Jammrath (AG Saumweber), Franziska Rudolph (AG Gotthardt), Maria Hennig (AG Thierfelder) and Sebastian Schäfer (AG Hübner). Welcome!

Start of the new lecture series

TransCard lectures will continue from October 12th again. You can find a pdf with the schedule here or view it online here.

Summer break

TransCard lectures will continue from October again (October 7th, student seminar, October 12th, Tuesday morning lecture).

Change in the TransCard Seminar Series

Please note that on the 22nd and the 29th of June there will be no TransCard lecture. The lecture of the 22nd (by Michael Bader) will be given on July 1st at 9:00 (followed by 2 student presentations).

The lecture of June 29th (by Carmen Birchmeier) will be postponed until July 20th. Please find the updated pdf of the lecture series here.

Salim Seyfried obtains DFG Heisenberg-Stipend

Securing of this grant enables up to another 5 years of research for the Seyfried group. Congratulations!

Highlight on Norbert Hübners latest publication on Notch3 involvement in stroke and dementia

To check out the highlight, please click here.

TransCard Retreat Poster prizes have been awarded

TransCard Retreat Poster prizes have been awarded

During this year's TransCard retreat, the first and second prizes for Best Poster went to Thomas Rathjen (AG Poy) and Anna Christa (AG Willnow) respectively. Congratulations!