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Employees of the Max Delbrück Center and the Experimental and Clinical Research Center are mourning the loss of Gisela Krebs, who has passed away at the age of 91. Since 2015, her foundation has been supporting muscle desease research.

The pianist SooJin Anjou and the scientist Nikolaus Rajewsky are both experts in their respective fields. Together, they have created the event series “Spark”: a concert and meet-up for creative people, an exploration to learn from both sides. On March 13th, the series continued at MDC-BIMSB.

Michael Potente wants to find out what makes blood vessels grow. For his work on the metabolic regulation of such growth, he has been selected as the recipient of the 2023 Judah Folkman Award from the North American Vascular Biology Organization.

Dr. Eleonora Adami is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Delbrück Center. The molecular biologist and geneticist studies heart failure by applying single-cell genomics approaches in the Hübner lab.

Michael Bader has received over half a million euros from the LEO Foundation. The funding will help him develop a therapy for vitiligo and other inflammatory skin conditions. He hopes the answer lies in an ointment that inhibits ACE2, an enzyme that gained global attention during the coronavirus pandemic.

This woman knows what a good book is. Petra Nibbe used to be a bookseller before she moved into the world of business law and human resources management. Nibbe, who is now head of the People and Culture Department at the Max Delbrück Center, takes us to Georgia, to the era after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

For Ukrainian graduate students, it can be a struggle to balance their careers and their worries about the war and their loved ones. A profile of two Ukrainian friends who work at the Max Delbrück Center now – one year after they had to flee from Kyiv.

Chromatin factors are involved in regulating gene expression. If they do not function properly, this can result in neurological impairments. Ana Pombo and Alexander Kukalev are now receiving almost €400,000 from the DFG for a research project that aims to shed more light on how these factors work.

Hypertension can damage the heart, brain, and blood vessels. The immune system plays an important role in this process, Suphansa Sawamiphak from the Max Delbrück Center reports in Cardiovascular Research. The study, using zebrafish, found that inflammation causes macrophages to damage blood vessels instead of protecting them.