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The 40-year-old scientist from the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology at the MDC has been selected as one of 26 researchers for the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. Starting in January 2022, Lupiáñez and his team will receive both financial and practical support for a period of four years.

Alliance of Science Organisations in Germany condemns the defamatory reporting of the "BILD" newspaper in the context of the corona pandemic:

Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction was previously considered largely untreatable. An MDC team led by Michael Gotthardt has now succeeded for the first time in improving cardiac function with the help of a synthetic nucleic acid, as the researchers report in the journal "Science Translational Medicine".

The MDC Advent calendar is here! We will be opening a door for you every day until 24 December. Take a look and get to know our staff. They will show you what our research center looks like from the inside and what is currently being researched at the MDC.

The heart can get weak in different ways. One form of the disease, heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF), continues to be extremely difficult to treat. MDC researchers are involved in a new Collaborative Research Center, where they aim to change this and develop therapeutic approaches.

In cases of severe COVID-19, the lungs develop unusually pronounced scarring, scientists from Berlin, Aachen and Würzburg report in “Cell”. Macrophages are central to this process. Misguided wound healing responses resulting in scarring may explain why COVID-19 patients remain in respiratory failure for so long.

The genetic material of individual cancer cells within a tumor varies – including in neuroblastoma, a cancer that predominantly occurs in early childhood. What’s more, these genetic differences are constantly evolving, as researchers from Charité and the MDC report in "Nature Communications".

New chances to attract sought-after research talents to Berlin will soon be available to the MDC. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has recruited Nikolaus Rajewsky for the Henriette Herz Scouting Program.

Once again three MDC scientists – Nikolaus Rajewsky, Sofia Forslund and Alexander Mildner – have been named to the global list of Highly Cited Researchers.