Heidelberg University

The European Research Council awards an ERC Starting Grant to HI-TAC guest researcher Mahak Singhal. He will investigate how the lining of our blood vessels senses, anticipates, and responds to the circadian changes between day and night.

The Max Delbrück Center welcomes four new guest groups: The labs of the junior scientists are part of the Helmholtz Institute for Translational AngioCardioScience, which is focusing on how the vascular system contributes to the development of diseases that affect multiple organ systems.

The Helmholtz Institute for Translational AngioCardioScience (HI-TAC) invites attendees to its first Symposium on April 28 and 29, 2025. Researchers from around the world will meet at Heidelberg University to discuss how the heart and blood vessels communicate with the rest of the body to shape health.

The Max Delbrück Center in Berlin and Heidelberg University will found a new Helmholtz Institute for Translational AngioCardioScience (HI-TAC) in Mannheim and Heidelberg. The Helmholtz Senate voted in favor of the institute, which will integrate vascular biomedicine, systems biology and heart research.

Berlin will become one of four new National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) locations in addition to Heidelberg and Dresden. This was announced today by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, recognizing the outstanding achievements of Charité, the BIH and the MDC in advancing cancer treatment and research.