Dec 16, 2022 Discovery for tomorrow's medicine At the Max Delbrück Center we want to understand the molecular basis of health and disease. But what does that actually mean? Our image film features our research approach. News & press releases Events Sign up for our newsletter Contact MDC on Twitter MDC on Facebook MDC on Instagram MDC on Youtube MDC on LinkedIn Press release Dec 07, 2022 Max Delbrück Center celebrates 30th anniversary On December 7, the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin celebrated its 30th birthday with the inauguration of Maike Sander as the new Scientific Director. The diabetes researcher brings together scientific excellence, innovation, and medical applications. Science Jan 25, 2023 AI analysis of cancer mutations may improve therapy Combining single-cell data with a self-learning algorithm reveals how structural changes in chromosomes can trigger cancer. This new method could pave the way for personalized cancer treatments, writes a team led by Ashley Sanders in “Nature Biotechnology”. Press release Jan 25, 2023 Inborn immunodeficiency discovered – and explained A group of international researchers – among them Stephan Mathas from the ECRC – has found that changing a single segment of the genome causes a previously unknown immunodeficiency in humans. The paper, which appears in Science Immunology, reports the discovery of a point mutation in the transcription factor IRF4. Science Jan 25, 2023 Paul Ehrlich Foundation honors Leif S. Ludwig Leif S. Ludwig, a researcher at the Max Delbrück Center and the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), will receive the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Young Investigator Award 2023 for a new method to analyze the formation of blood cells, as the Scientific Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation announced today. Press release Jan 24, 2023 ERC Proof of Concept Grant for Mina Gouti Organoids have to be fed and cared for continuously so that they can mature. So far, it is mostly a manual process – not suitable for industrial drug screening. Now, the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Mina Gouti a Proof of Concept Grant to tackle scalability and reproducibility. Institute & Campus Jan 16, 2023 The digitalization man Digitalization is in full swing, and the Max Delbrück Center is no exception. Arno Edinger and his team in the IT Department are responsible for implementing this process throughout the research center. The aim is not to digitalize employees out of existence, but rather to free them from annoying routine tasks that waste their time. Science Jan 11, 2023 Youth science contest returns to campus “Mach Ideen groß” is the theme of this year’s nationwide “Jugend forscht” competition, which is again being held at Campus Berlin-Buch. The Max Delbrück Center, along with the other sponsoring institutions, will be hosting 29 projects by Berlin’s young STEM talents. Science Jan 11, 2023 Il-Kang Na heads Clinician Scientist Program Il-Kang Na, BIH Johanna Quandt Professor and head of a research group at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), became the new director of the BIH Charité Clinician Scientist Program on January 1, 2023. Her own journey has made her a role model for aspiring clinician scientists. Institute & Campus Dec 23, 2022 The soul of the campus After 25 years at the Max Delbrück Center, Dana Lafuente is leaving. She has made her mark as an administrative coordinator, on Campus Berlin-Buch, and in the Society of Friends, always advocating for the interests and concerns of all employees. Now she plans to do something different: open a mushroom school. Max Delbrück would understand. Science Dec 21, 2022 Membrane couture made of elastic protein bands For nearly two decades, Oliver Daumke has been working to solve the mystery of how a molecular machine remodels cellular membranes. His team has now found the answer with the help of cryo-electron tomography. They report their findings in the journal “Nature Communications”.
Press release Dec 07, 2022 Max Delbrück Center celebrates 30th anniversary On December 7, the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin celebrated its 30th birthday with the inauguration of Maike Sander as the new Scientific Director. The diabetes researcher brings together scientific excellence, innovation, and medical applications.
Science Jan 25, 2023 AI analysis of cancer mutations may improve therapy Combining single-cell data with a self-learning algorithm reveals how structural changes in chromosomes can trigger cancer. This new method could pave the way for personalized cancer treatments, writes a team led by Ashley Sanders in “Nature Biotechnology”.
Press release Jan 25, 2023 Inborn immunodeficiency discovered – and explained A group of international researchers – among them Stephan Mathas from the ECRC – has found that changing a single segment of the genome causes a previously unknown immunodeficiency in humans. The paper, which appears in Science Immunology, reports the discovery of a point mutation in the transcription factor IRF4.
Science Jan 25, 2023 Paul Ehrlich Foundation honors Leif S. Ludwig Leif S. Ludwig, a researcher at the Max Delbrück Center and the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), will receive the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Young Investigator Award 2023 for a new method to analyze the formation of blood cells, as the Scientific Council of the Paul Ehrlich Foundation announced today.
Press release Jan 24, 2023 ERC Proof of Concept Grant for Mina Gouti Organoids have to be fed and cared for continuously so that they can mature. So far, it is mostly a manual process – not suitable for industrial drug screening. Now, the European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Mina Gouti a Proof of Concept Grant to tackle scalability and reproducibility.
Institute & Campus Jan 16, 2023 The digitalization man Digitalization is in full swing, and the Max Delbrück Center is no exception. Arno Edinger and his team in the IT Department are responsible for implementing this process throughout the research center. The aim is not to digitalize employees out of existence, but rather to free them from annoying routine tasks that waste their time.
Science Jan 11, 2023 Youth science contest returns to campus “Mach Ideen groß” is the theme of this year’s nationwide “Jugend forscht” competition, which is again being held at Campus Berlin-Buch. The Max Delbrück Center, along with the other sponsoring institutions, will be hosting 29 projects by Berlin’s young STEM talents.
Science Jan 11, 2023 Il-Kang Na heads Clinician Scientist Program Il-Kang Na, BIH Johanna Quandt Professor and head of a research group at the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), became the new director of the BIH Charité Clinician Scientist Program on January 1, 2023. Her own journey has made her a role model for aspiring clinician scientists.
Institute & Campus Dec 23, 2022 The soul of the campus After 25 years at the Max Delbrück Center, Dana Lafuente is leaving. She has made her mark as an administrative coordinator, on Campus Berlin-Buch, and in the Society of Friends, always advocating for the interests and concerns of all employees. Now she plans to do something different: open a mushroom school. Max Delbrück would understand.
Science Dec 21, 2022 Membrane couture made of elastic protein bands For nearly two decades, Oliver Daumke has been working to solve the mystery of how a molecular machine remodels cellular membranes. His team has now found the answer with the help of cryo-electron tomography. They report their findings in the journal “Nature Communications”.
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