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Science Jul 08, 2025

Restoring the elasticity of heart muscle

Professor Michael Gotthardt is developing a therapy for a common yet currently untreatable form of heart disease. The Deutsche Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung is supporting the project with around €650,000, which he will share with collaborator Dr. Alessio Alogna from the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité.

Science Jul 08, 2025

Clara Vázquez García wins Helmholtz Doctoral Award

Clara Vázquez García has won a Helmholtz Doctoral Award and a Helmholtz Enterprises Field Study Fellowship. She plans to use the funding to further develop a tool that can assess a person’s DNA repair and immune system fitness.

Science Jul 04, 2025

The cellular engineer

Molecular machines carry out many vital processes inside our cells. When their components – protein building blocks – are faulty, it can lead to disease. Structural biologist Oliver Daumke investigates how these machines are built, what makes them work, and what goes wrong when they malfunction.

Science Jul 02, 2025

Cutting the environmental impact of research

From reducing freezer usage to plastic waste, Max Delbrück Center labs have been implementing strategies from the LEAF program for sustainable research. As more labs join the program, they are not only contributing to reaching our sustainability goals, they are also improving research quality.

Press release Jul 01, 2025

Maike Sander elected member of EMBO

The European Molecular Biology Organization has elected Scientific Director of the Max Delbrück Center Maike Sander to its membership. She will join a community of more than 2,100 leading life scientists who guide the organization and help shape the future of life science research.

Science Jun 28, 2025

The Long Night of the Sciences 2025

The Long Night of the Sciences has been a Berlin tradition for 25 years – and the Max Delbrück Center and Campus Berlin-Buch have been part of it from the very beginning. On June 28, we celebrated this milestone with science enthusiasts, families, and special guests.

Science Jun 27, 2025

Two first-place awards in scientific image contest

Helmholtz Imaging once again selected many outstanding scientific images during its annual contest: The Max Delbrück Center came out on top twice in the Best Scientific Image Contest, with Jana Kroll winning the Jury Award and Rafael Deliz Aguirre taking the Public Choice Award.

Science Jun 27, 2025

How the early heart develops

The ion channel PIEZO2 doesn’t just convey touch stimuli. It also plays a key role in the development of coronary vessels, a team led by Annette Hammes from the Max Delbrück Center reports in “Nature Cardiovascular Research.” The findings could improve our understanding of congenital heart defects.

Science Jun 26, 2025

What are you reading Ms Leupold?

Paula Leupold is a PhD student in Nikolaus Rajewsky's lab. She studies how the environment, like viruses and microplastic, can infiltrate the human brain and cause cellular changes or disease. Her reading recommendation tells a true story from Malawi — one of the poorest countries in the world.

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