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The Berlin-Buch campus is currently in third place in the competition organized by Berlin’s state companies — but there are still four more weeks to catch up. The campus’s best first-time competitor was honored at the Bergfest.

With a clear commitment to research and health science, Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the new MDC research building for the Berlin Institute for Molecular Systems Biology in Berlin Mitte. Her visit is now documented in more detail with additional picture galleries and videos.

This year’s Berlin Institute of Systems Biology of the Max Delbrück Center summer meeting explored “AI’s Adventures in Genomics.” The meeting provided molecular and computational biologists a forum to discuss the latest advances, challenges, and prospects in harnessing AI for biomedical research.

MDC researchers received a $150,000 pilot project grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Neurodegeneration Challenge Network to investigate a defining feature of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

How can a heart heal itself? And what determines the sex of a living organism? The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to Dr. Jan Philipp Junker and Dr. Darío Lupiáñez to tackle these questions. Each researcher will receive €2 million over five years for their research.

Organoids help researchers understand biological processes in health and in disease. It is, however, difficult to influence the way in which they organize themselves into complex tissues. Now a group led by Nikolaus Rajewsky has found a new way to do so. They report their work in Nature Methods.

This spring, the MDC, BIH and Charité hosted the first e:Med Summer School on single-cell- based systems medicine, with the goal of ensuring that basic findings in the field are translated into clinical practice. The event welcomed 20 young biomedical researchers, data scientists and clinicians from around the world.

Spatially resolved transcriptomics are changing the way we understand complex tissues, as Nature Methods wrote when it crowned the technology “Method of the Year 2020". A SCOG virtual workshop has now provided an overview of the latest findings and developments in this exciting field.