The MRI study center at the Max Delbrück Center has already examined 5,000 participants as part of the nationwide German National Cohort (GNC). We talked to Professor Thoralf Niendorf, head of the MRI center, about what’s happening with the data – and Annett Anacker, the 5,000th participant in Berlin, tells us why she’s taking part.

The research of Professor Thomas Willnow of the MDC was selected as a “hot topic” from 14,000 abstracts at “Neuroscience 2018”, the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience (SfN). He and his team showed that the very same receptor that regulates cholesterol levels in the blood and decreases the risk of heart attack also controls lipid levels in the brain and effects the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease.