Helmholtz

Kyle Harrington will lead a new MDC technology platform developing new tools to process any type of imaging data. The new unit will support the Helmholtz Imaging Platform (HIP), a joint effort by the MDC and two other centers to advance image data acquisition, preparation and analysis.

On September 23 data scientists can find out more about career opportunities in applied data sciences at a virtual career fair. The “Helmholtz Virtual Data Science Career Day“ with several virtual keynotes and over 20 exhibitors is free of charge for participants.

MDC researcher Jan Philipp Junker and his collaborator Maria Colomé-Tatché at Helmholtz Center Munich have received a €200,000 grant to improve big data processing to better understand how gene networks are wired together during development and disease.

Anton Henssen works as a paediatrician and researches rare tumours at the Max Delbrück Center. Incidentally, he’s also a conceptual artist with way more to his paintings than meets the eye.

Together with Charité and WIS, the MDC is establishing the German-Israeli Helmholtz International Research School iNAMES – an interdisciplinary training program for PhD students interested in imaging.

Enabling new applications, learning from one another, linking research fields, harnessing synergies and cumulative experience in imaging processes for all: this is what the new Helmholtz Imaging Platform (HIP), coordinated by the MDC, DKFZ and DESY, promises.

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.

Translating research findings into viable commercial applications plays a key role in solving societal problems. The Helmholtz Association therefore supports projects that are particularly promising in this regard through the Helmholtz Validation Fund (HVF).

16 Helmholtz Association Centers have terminated their license agreements with scientific publisher Elsevier effective by the end of 2017. One of these Centers is the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC).

Shadi Hussein left Syria because of the war and now lives in Germany. An internship in the labs of MDC researcher Annette Hammes may help him re-enter his learned profession.