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PhD candidates now have the opportunity to apply for two new training programs. The EU is supporting the program for talented early-stage researchers at the MDC and other European research institutions to the tune of €4 million per network.

Nadine Haase has received this year’s Hypertension Research Award of the German Society of Nephrology. The ECRC researcher discovered a potential agent for treating preeclampsia.

By analyzing the gene expression of single cells, algorithms are able to not only reconstruct their original location in the tissue, but also to determine details about their function. Teams led by Kai Schmidt-Ott and Nikolaus Rajewsky have published their findings in JASN, using the kidney as an example.

At MDC, we do research to promote human health and well-being. In our labs we employ cell cultures, organoids and computer models. We seek and develop alternatives to animal experiments. It remains a fact that, biomedical research is not possible without animal experiments. Our researchers tell us why.

The Berlin Institute of Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) will host an international, virtual workshop about condensates and phase transitions on Nov. 27, 2020.

You have missed the MDC's digital events held during Berlin Science Week? No worries, we recorded a few of this year's highlights. Enjoy watching them whenever you want.

A mutation in the CLCN6 gene changes an important chlorid transporter and causes a particularly severe neurodegenerative disorder. These results by scientists from FMP and MDC, together with an international team of researchers, have just been published in the American Journal of Human Genetics.

The process of cells multiplying is one of the most well-understood processes in life. When MDC biologists joined forces with a physicist and mathematician, they gained new and unexpected insights about the cell cycle, now published in “Molecular Systems Biology”.

With its spin-off support program SPOT, the MDC is giving a helping hand to teams looking to start a company. Three of the most promising projects have now been selected. For our series “We at the MDC” we spoke with Dr. Ingo Curdt, coordinator of the funding program.

As new junior group leader at the MDC, Hanna Hörnberg plans to analyze the biological mechanisms in the brain that control the social and emotional behaviors that are often affected in neuropsychiatric conditions. Her goal is to identify biomarkers for diagnostics and personalized medicine.