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The artists Elisabetta Citterio and Claudia Cagliano have created portraits of nearly 60 female researchers from nine countries. Twenty-five of them can be viewed in the "STEM Passion" exhibition until March 12, 2024 in the Rahel Hirsch Center for Translational Medicine Berlin.

For their discovery that endogenous neural precursor cells are apparently able to destroy glioblastomas, the brain researcher Dr. Rainer Glass (Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, MDC, Berlin-Buch) and the neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Synowitz (Helios Clinics Berlin-Buch) have been awarded the Young Investigator Award by the Section on Tumors of the American Brain Tumor Association. Dr. Synowitz accepted the prize of $2,000 on behalf of both researchers at the 55th Annual Meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Their paper was published in the Journal of Neuroscience (March 2005, Vol. 25, Issue 10, pp. 2637 – 2646)*.

NOVA University and Max Delbrück Center are jointly establishing the NOVA Institute for Medical Systems Biology (NIMSB). Both institutions have developed a shared vision to push the boundaries of precision medicine. “Insights” spoke to the three project leads in Lisbon and Berlin.

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund single-cell scientist Simon Haas in its Heisenberg program. Therefore, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) is establishing a Heisenberg professorship in systems hematology. After five years, the BIH will make the professorship permanent.

Their research is outstanding, and they’re also committed to the Max Delbrück Center and engaged in our community — Manqiang Lin and Artsemi Yushkevich wrote the best papers in 2023; Hendrik Bartolomaeus, Eleonore Adami and Ulrike Löber received the Postdoc Awards for 2023.