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The PROSPER research project is bringing together researchers at four different sites in Germany to study whether a specific nutritional supplement can protect premature babies from blood poisoning. The BMBF is supporting the project, in which a group from the ECRC is involved, to the tune of €1.9 million.

As coordinator for sustainability, Michael Hinz is ensuring that the MDC matches excellent research with sustainable development and greenhouse gas-neutral work. Here, he recommends a novel about the eventful history of a Gründerzeit building and its inhabitants

For his outstanding doctoral thesis on sexual communication in fruit flies, the Max Planck Society awards an Otto Hahn Medal to neuroscientist Mohammed Khallaf Ali. At the MDC, he works in the Lewin lab and is dedicated to the sensation of touch and pain in animals.

Pediatric oncologist Anton Henssen and a group of researchers from the US and the UK have won funding for a Cancer Grand Challenge. The international team will receive almost €24 million to research the role that ring-shaped strands of DNA play in the development of cancer, and how to fight them.

This spring, the MDC, BIH and Charité hosted the first e:Med Summer School on single-cell- based systems medicine, with the goal of ensuring that basic findings in the field are translated into clinical practice. The event welcomed 20 young biomedical researchers, data scientists and clinicians from around the world.

Hanna Zimmermann has spent years studying how the retina can be used to diagnose neurodegenerative diseases. She is now starting her own research group, the Applied Research on the Visual System Lab, at the ECRC – and has also been named a junior professor at Charité. She will receive an endowed professorship from the Einstein Center Digital Future for this purpose.

T cells are usually very good at eliminating diseased cells. But they seem to fail when it comes to tumor cells. In "JCI Insight", MDC teams led by Armin Rehm and Uta Höpken describe what inhibits this immune function, how they can release the brake and boost the immune response against cancer.

Anton G. Henssen takes up a Mildred Scheel Professorship for “Functional Pediatric Cancer Genomics” at the Charité in Berlin. As part of this endowed professorship, the German Cancer Aid Foundation is supporting the pediatrician and researcher with one million euros for five years.

Three minutes – that's all the time Anita Waltho had at the 2022 German FameLab final in Bielefeld earlier this month. The competition is about presenting your research in an entertaining, easy-to-digest manner to capture the jury, and of course, the audience.