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Paula Leupold is researching how our environment, e.g., viruses and microplastics, enters the brain and causes cellular changes and diseases. She is a PhD student in Nikolaus Rajewsky's lab.

Five scientists from the Max Delbrück Center have been named among the 100 most important minds in Berlin science in 2025 by the newspaper Tagesspiegel: Simone Spuler, Clara Vázquez García, Thoralf Niendorf, Gabriele Schiattarella and Ana Pombo.

Yun-Hsuan Huang spent two intense weeks at the University of Edinburgh as part of the Max Delbrück Center’s PhD exchange program in Medical Systems Biology. She returned with new skills, scientific insights – and a broader outlook on research and collaboration.

Katharina Brecht has been part of the Max Delbrück Center since July 2025, where she is responsible for Faculty Affairs and Recruitment within the staff unit ‘Strategic Programs, Resources and Implementation’. She moved only recently to Berlin. Her tip takes us to London and to Shakespeare — and to the question: Was he a woman?

Two women, one mission: Kathrin Saar, our newly elected Equal Opportunities Officer at the Max Delbrück Center, and her deputy Aileen Cunningham want to make women in science more visible and promote equality within our institution.

With great sadness, we say farewell to Dr. Heinz Sklenar, who passed away on September 2, 2025 in Bernau at the age of 86. The structural biologist was a research group leader at the Max Delbrück Center for many years.

Researchers led by Michael Kaminski report in “Molecular Therapy” that they have used base editing to repair mutations that cause ADPKD. The approach reduced liver cysts in mice.

Markus Landthaler and colleagues from the University of Cologne have deciphered the rules of a key cellular quality control mechanism in detail, and published their results in “Molecular Cell.”

The European Research Council awards an ERC Starting Grant to HI-TAC guest researcher Mahak Singhal. He will investigate how the lining of our blood vessels senses, anticipates, and responds to the circadian changes between day and night.