Imaging

When physicist Thoralf Niendorf encounters the impossible, it spurs his creativity. Using ultra high-resolution MRI technology, he peers deeper and deeper into healthy and diseased tissue. He develops novel methods that visualize biological processes within the cell.

As a PhD student at the international iNAMES Research School, neuroscientist Gamze Güney is researching temperature perception at the Max Delbrück Center. As part of the “We at the MDC” series, Güney talks about the first iNAMES symposium at MDC-BIMSB and her time at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

The Image Data Analysis Platform has a new leader in Deborah Schmidt. She and her team create software that processes and analyzes image data from biomedicine, material sciences, or environmental research – something that benefits the entire Helmholtz Association.

Mikhail Kudryashev's scientific career has been defined by his intensive work on the structure of proteins, those tiny building blocks of life. He has now been appointed to a Heisenberg Professorship at the Charité as of August 1, 2022.

Biomedicine today is awash with images and the tide is rising. Dagmar Kainmüller is teaching computers to see so that they can help with analyzing the image data. In the process, artificial intelligence is throwing up some unexpected questions that are opening up new lines of research in molecular biology.

In muscular dystrophies, there can also be a deterioration in the heart's function. For a study on such cardiac involvement, the German Society for Muscular Dystrophies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke e.V.) has awarded ECRC researchers Jeanette Schulz-Menger and Edyta Blaszczyk the Ulrich Brodeßer FSHD Prize 2022.

The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and the Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg and will cooperate in the field of medical imaging in the future. A cooperation agreement was signed on Friday, 11 March 2022 at the Research Campus in Berlin-Buch.

Apple recommends keeping the iPhone 12 and 13 at least 15 centimeters away from pacemakers, raising safety concerns among people with implanted medical devices. A study conducted by Thoralf Niendorf’s lab at the MDC, along with researchers from Charité, shows these fears are unfounded.

In the past year Helmholtz Imaging looked for the "Best Scientific Images" generated by scientist from the Helmholtz Association. Twenty of them are now on display for a short time at the MDC.

Her world is a gray one. Dr. Séverine Kunz uses electron microscopy to obtain black and white images from inside the cells and subcellular structures. She has dedicated herself to this hidden world and was recently named head of the MDC’s Electron Microscopy Platform.