Press Releases

Researchers at the MDC have developed a new online tool that displays the development of the COVID-19 epidemic in Germany clearly and by individual state as well as worldwide. The map and timeline showing the spread of the coronavirus are freely available on the internet.

Research groups from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) are joining forces with other Berlin-based partners. Pooling their experience and outstanding expertise in the field of mass spectrometry, they will form a new ‘Forschungskern’ or ‘research core’.

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.

Jutta Kramm took over on October 1, 2018, as head of the Communications Department at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC). Kramm, 59, was previously a PR manager and spokesperson at the children’s rights organization Save the Children Germany.

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.