Postdocs

Anita Waltho is a PhD in the Lab of Thomas Sommer – and one of the early career researchers in Berlin who run a mini podcast series. It showcases change in the academic research environment. Highly recommended!

With its "Back to the roots" Lab, the Max Delbrück Center aims to enable young international researchers to become ambassadors for Research in Germany in their home countries. It is one of the winners of the DFG Community Prize.

Mixing and mingling on Hydra: For the anniversary of the Lewin Lab, leading somatic sensation experts, colleagues and students of Gary Lewin all came to a Greek island. In this interview, he talks with his former mentee Stefan Lechner about the symposium, dazzling personalities and what makes a good PI.

Shortly before Berlin’s Christopher Street Day, the MDC will hold a Pride Symposium for the first time. On July 22, 2022, everyone is welcome to exchange ideas about queer issues in life sciences and health care.

For his outstanding doctoral thesis on sexual communication in fruit flies, the Max Planck Society awards an Otto Hahn Medal to neuroscientist Mohammed Khallaf Ali. At the MDC, he works in the Lewin lab and is dedicated to the sensation of touch and pain in animals.

New chances to attract sought-after research talents to Berlin will soon be available to the MDC. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has recruited Nikolaus Rajewsky for the Henriette Herz Scouting Program.

Two studies from the research team led by Dominik Müller and Ralf Dechend have been granted the American Heart Association’s Paul Dudley White International Scholar Award. One of the lead authors is also the winner of the Dr. Sabine Oberhauser Prize.

Gut bacteria and their metabolites protect organs from the effects of hypertension – this was discovered by Hendrik Bartolomaeus in collaboration with four labs at the ECRC. For this achievement, the early career scientist is now being awarded the Walter Siegenthaler Medal in silver.

Women scientists are often less visible than their male counterparts. The UNESCO exhibition “Creative Resilience” gives a voice to STEM women during the pandemic – and one of the art creators is an MDC postdoc from the Hübner Lab: Dr. Eleonora Adami.

For the first time ever, the Forschungsverbund Berlin confers the Marthe Vogt Award on not one but two young female scientists: biochemist Dr. Sabrina Geisberger of the MDC and physicist Dr. Vittoria Sposini.