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The MDC community is mourning the loss of Heinz Bielka, a pioneer of cell and molecular biology, science historian, and committed Buch citizen. From 1953 until his retirement, Bielka served in important positions on the campus. He was 91 years old. His outstanding contributions will be long remembered.

50 years ago today, on December 10, 1969, a reserved and modest man accepted the Nobel Prize for Medicine in Stockholm. This man was Max Delbrück, a native of Berlin. An article by Detlev Ganten.

The Käthe-Beutler-Haus of the BIH is currently being built on the Berlin-Buch campus - the Medizinhistorische Journal now reports on the life of the Jewish paediatrician, researcher and mother.

My 9th of November – 30 years after the peaceful revolution and the fall of the Wall, the MDC is publishing some of the many eyewitness accounts, memories, and reflections of its employees. It is a “bottoms-up” approach to writing history, with contributions by Jens Reich and Detlev Ganten.

What is the responsibility of science to society? On the anniversary of the founding of the Neues Forum, Jens Reich examined this question – covering the period from the initial Aufbruch 89 manifesto to the present day. And to mark the start of the new BIMSB series “Breaking Boundaries,” Wolf and Pamela Biermann followed his speech with a special concert – all just a stone’s throw away from the balladeer’s former apartment.

Gudrun Erzgräber has worked many years on the Campus Buch, as a researcher and as a manager. She was present when the MDC was founded and managed the BiotechPark Berlin-Buch. On May 22 she is 80 years old. We congratulate her.

He is a molecular biologist and physician, GDR revolutionary and civil rights activist, bioethicist and still today a formative researcher and ombudsman at the Max Delbrück Center. On the 80th birthday of Professor Jens Reich.

A permanent medical history exhibition at the Berlin-based Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) impressively shows that microscopes have always been part of medical advances.

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), the Board of Directors has introduced the research institute’s highest accolade to date. The new award recognizes those who have made particularly significant contributions to the MDC, and consists of the Max Delbrück Center Badge of Honor together with a certificate of honorary membership. The award will be presented for the first time at the silver jubilee event on December 1, 2017.

The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC) has celebrated its 25th anniversary with some 550 invited guests. At the same time, the Board of Directors honored five individuals to whom the MDC owes a large debt of gratitude, especially during the early years.