Press Releases

Some 27 young researchers have been selected for the prestigious EMBO Young Investigators Programme. Among this year’s awardees is Philipp Junker, a systems biologist at the MDC’s Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology.

The MDC is committed to maintaining respectful interactions at the research center and is taking decisive action to prevent and address bullying, discrimination, and sexual harassment. Since early 2019 an Anti-Harassment Task Force, consisting of a broad cross-section of stakeholders, has been preparing guidelines for this very purpose. The Board of Directors has declared its support for the proposed guidelines.

The equivalent of almost 28 times around the equator – this was the distance covered by participants in the cycling competition “Wer radelt am meisten?” (Who cycles the most?). Berlin’s senator for sport announced the winners at a ceremony on Wednesday at the Olympiastadion. The Buch campus took first place in the category “Best Company.”

The MDC welcomes the agreement reached between the State of Berlin and the federal government regarding the future of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH ). The term “privileged partnership” has to now be filled with life and backed up with funding.

LifeTime is one of the six winners of an EU-wide competition in which ambitious and forward-looking research projects are selected and funded. This was officially announced by the European Commission on Tuesday. The coordinators of LifeTime in Berlin and Paris were pleased that they can now begin the actual work. Chancellor Merkel praised the initiative.

Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurated on Tuesday the Max Delbrück Center’s new building in the heart of Berlin. Some 250 top researchers of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) will use the facility to study how genes regulate the lives of cells and thus influence health and disease.

Criticism is an essential part of science. However, the personal vilification and blanket denunciation of researchers is not acceptable. Here is the MDC’s statement on the current campaign of Doctors Against Animal Experiments Germany.

Science is both fascinating and beautiful. This is the message delivered by the new MDC website...

Excellent new people at the Max Delbrück Center: The Charité Foundation and the Einstein Foundation of Berlin are supporting three professors who will come to Berlin to collaborate with MDC groups under the framework of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH ). The support is part of the BIH strategy to bring findings from basic research more quickly into clinical practice.