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Our Research

Research at the Max Delbrück Center aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of health and disease, and translate those findings into medical practice.

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Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Enabling multi-modal prediction from molecules to cohorts.

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Research Highlights

Our research teams publish around 450 specialist articles every year. Our research highlights can be found here, presented in a comprehensible format.

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Selection of research highlights
induced pluripotent stem cells in a pluripotency test

Research News & Events

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Bridging science and business

During the Predictive Systems Medicine Partnering Event at the Max Delbrück Center, researchers and industry representatives shared insights and explored commercialization opportunities – advancing our mission to turn discovery into real-world health impact.
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Berlin joins national genome data network

The Max Delbrück Center and Berlin Institute of Health at Charité – Universitätsmedizin have joined a national network of six Genome Data Centers and the German Human Genome-Phenome Archive, adding Berlin as an operational data hub for genomic medicine and omics-based research.
Ines Lahmann and Mina Gouti
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A spin-off targeting neuromuscular disorders

A team led by Mina Gouti has developed a stem cell-based model that enables researchers to test new drugs to treat neuromuscular diseases and to refine existing therapies. The project, called NMJCare, was named one of the top ten ideas in the national Science4Life start-up competition.
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Building environmentally friendly labs

The Max Delbrück Center has recently completed construction of a new Demonstrator Lab as a testbed to reduce the environmental impact of biomedical research. The insights gained will be applied to all new building renovations across the center.
Karen Christman
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Karen Christman receives Humboldt Research Award

Karen Christman, a Stiftung Charité Visiting Fellow at the Max Delbrück Center, is among the first researchers to have won a Humboldt Research Award under Germany’s Global Minds Initiative. The award will enable her to expand her research in Germany on bioengineering.
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Observing synapses in action

Jana Kroll, Christian Rosenmund and their teams have captured the fleeting moment a nerve cell releases its neurotransmitters into the synaptic cleft. The work was published in “Nature Communications.”
T-cells (highlighted red) attacking a cancer cell
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Captain T Cell closed multi-million-euro round

Captain T Cell, a biotechnology spin-off from the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin, recently closed an equity financing round with both new and existing investors. It provides Captain T Cell with a total budget of EUR 20 million to develop next-generation T cell therapies for solid tumors.
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Lifestyle linked to body fat composition

Using data from the German NAKO health study, an international team led by Tobias Pischon has found that a healthy lifestyle – regular exercise, a balanced diet, alcohol in moderation and not smoking – is linked to the accumulation of less visceral body fat. The results are reported in “Obesity.”
Jiyan Xu
Institute & Campus

What are you reading, Ms. Xu?

Jiyan Xu is a doctoral student in Sofia Forslund's lab. She is investigating how diet, allergies, and potentially harmful microbes interact and shape the human gut microbiome. Jiyan Xu recommends a deeply thought-provoking, philosophical book for us. It is a classic of Japanese literature.

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Publications

Multiscale simulation and parallel space-time adaptivity of calcium sparks in cardiac myocytes

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Thrombospondin-1 (THBS1) is dysregulated in preeclampsia

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Circulating fatty acid binding protein 4 (FABP‐4) concentrations and mortality in individuals with colorectal cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study

International Journal of Cancer

Metabolic inflammation, brain age and cognitive functioning in short- and long-term clinical weight loss trials

EBioMedicine

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