Medical Systems Biology

The Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) was initiated and developed by Nikolaus Rajewsky (BIMSB Scientific Director). BIMSB is an expansion of the MDC into Medical Systems Biology. BIMSB received, starting 2008, 19 Mio € kick-off funding through the competitive federal initiative “Spitzenforschung in den neuen Bundesländern” (BMBF & Senate Berlin). After a highly successful external peer-review, the BMBF decided to provide additional institutionalized funding for BIMSB (17.5 Mio € /year + 2.5 Mio € /year MDC “Eigenanteil”). The Humboldt University included BIMSB in their successful participation in the “Exzellenzinitiative” and provided the real estate on the new life science Campus in Berlin Mitte. This neighborhood is important for the BIMSB scientific mission and promotes collaborations between the HU and the MDC. The BMBF provides additional money for the new building (33.5 Mio €). 

So far, BIMSB researchers newly acquired additional 28.7 Mio € in competitive third-party funds by the BMBF, DFG, EC, HFSP, NIH, industry, BIH and DZHK.
Total external funding to date: 47.7 Mio € (competitively acquired) + 86 Mio € (institutionalized funding by the BMBF). 

Scientific Coordinator

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Rajewsky

rajewsky@mdc-berlin.de

 

Groups

Akalin Lab

Bioinformatics

Bioinformatics / Mathematical Modelling Platform

Altuna Akalin

Chekulaeva Lab

Non-coding RNAs and Mechanisms of Cytoplasmic Gene Regulation

Junker Lab

Quantitative Developmental Biology

Proteomics and Metabolomics Platform

Stefan Kempa

Landthaler Lab

RNA Biology and Posttranscriptional Regulation

Lippert Lab

Statistical Genomics

Lupiáñez Lab

Epigenetics and Sex Development

Meyer Lab

RNA Structure and Transcriptome Regulation

Ohler Lab

Computational Regulatory Genomics

Pombo Lab

Epigenetic Regulation and Chromatin Architecture

Preibisch Lab

Microscopy, Image Analysis & Modeling of Developing Organisms

N. Rajewsky Lab

Systems Biology of Gene Regulatory Elements

Scientific Genomics Platforms

Sascha Sauer

Schwarz Lab

Evolutionary and Cancer Genomics

Tursun Lab

Gene Regulation and Cell Fate Decision in C. elegans

Systems Biology Imaging

Andrew Woehler

Zinzen Lab

Systems Biology of Neural Tissue Differentiation

Associated Groups

Selbach Lab

Proteome Dynamics

Wolf Lab

Mathematical Modelling of Cellular Processes