Organoids

Starting November 2026, Cornelia Schwayer will establish a new research group at the Max Delbrück Center. She will be studying how the human liver can fully regenerate and whether the same mechanisms can be harnessed to promote regeneration in other organs.

Using skin organoids, Emanuel Wyler and collaborators in Hamburg have traced how herpes simplex virus 1 infection progresses among neighboring skin cells. The work, published in “Science Advances,” might ultimately help researchers understand why a common virus sometimes has serious consequences.

A team headed by Michael Sigal’s lab has revealed how Helicobacter pylori reprograms the stomach lining at the cellular level, allowing cancer to develop. The findings, published “Nature Communications,” pave the way toward prevention.

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are intended to support careers, foster research excellence, and provide international and interdisciplinary advanced training through cross-border mobility. Organoid expert Sara De Vincentiis in the Gouti lab is among this year’s winners.

Researchers in the Mina Gouti lab show in “Advanced Science” that electrical pulse stimulation helps human neuromuscular organoids mature. This non-invasive approach may make it possible to use organoid models to study adult-onset diseases and to gain a better understanding of how tissues mature.

Families, researchers, and clinicians will gather in Berlin to share knowledge and build momentum toward therapies for NEDAMSS, a rare neurodevelopmental disorder. Jakob Metzger, Group Leader of the Quantitative Stem Cell Biology lab explains why this day matters and what participants can expect.

At the Einstein Center for Early Disease Interception, researchers from twelve Berlin institutions will be pooling their expertise to explore new approaches to prevention, long before symptoms appear, and bring them quickly into practice. The center opens today with a ceremony.

Mina Gouti has been awarded a professorship at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The appointment will strengthen her pioneering organoid research at the Max Delbrück Center and deepen collaboration with clinicians to advance personalized medicine.

How do the ApoE4 gene variant and the herpes simplex virus work together to increase the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease? Agnieszka Rybak-Wolf has been awarded a grant from Alzheimer Forschung Initiative to study the molecular interaction between the two risk factors.

The Einstein Center for Early Disease Interception has been funded with six million euros. In an interview, Nikolaus Rajewsky and Leif Erik Sander, both spokespeople of the center, explain why new technologies and cross-institutional collaboration will make disease prevention in the future possible.