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Breaking the temperature barrier

With an advanced ERC grant, Thoralf Niendorf will aim ultrahigh-field MRI at a critical, yet largely unexplored dimension of life.
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Two Humboldt award winners are coming to the MDC as visiting scientists

David H. Gutmann, the US neurologist, and Prof. Maike Sander, a diabetes researcher at the University of California, San Diego, USA, have now been granted the Humboldt Research Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
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Martin Lohse awarded Poulsson medal

Pharmacologist Prof. Martin Lohse, who is Scientific Director of the MDC received the Poulsson Medal by The Norwegian Society of Pharmacology and Toxicology (NSFT). The scientific award honors Prof. Lohse's scientific contribution to the field and his efforts in teaching.
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Erik McShane awarded MDC PhD Prize of 2016

Some proteins behave in an unusual way: the older they become, the more stable they are. This is what Erik McShane found out, this year's winner of the annual PhD Prize Award.
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Press Release No. 44 Berlin

Three new guest scientists foster research at MDC and BIH

Excellent new people at the Max Delbrück Center: The Charité Foundation and the Einstein Foundation of Berlin are supporting three professors who will come to Berlin to collaborate with MDC groups under the framework of the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH). The support is part of the BIH strategy to bring findings from basic research more quickly into clinical practice.
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Press Release No. 36 Berlin

Top of her class: Véronique Gebala of the MDC wins the Helmholtz award for best thesis

Each year the Helmholtz Association awards prizes for the best doctoral theses in its research areas – from Energy to Key Technologies. This year’s winner of the award in the field of Health is a recent graduate from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC): Véronique Gebala, from the group of Holger Gerhardt. Veronique and five other PhD students have been presented the PhD prize by Federal Minister for Education and Research Prof. Johanna Wanka and President of the Helmholtz Association Prof. Otmar D. Wiestler at the annual meeting of the Helmholtz Association on Sept. 22 in Berlin.
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Press Release No. 32 Berlin

Two MDC researchers win European Research Council grants

An ERC double for the MDC: Dr. Jan Philipp Junker and Dr. Gaetano Gargiulo have each been awarded an ERC Starting Grant worth €1.5 million. Junker will be studying cellular processes in the heart of the zebrafish, while Gargiulo will conduct research into glioblastoma, the most common form of brain tumor in humans.
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Press Release No. 26 Berlin

ARCHES award for MDC researcher: High-resolution maps of genetic modifications

Physicist Jan Philipp Junker knows exactly when which genes are active in which region of the body...
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Ulrike Stein elected to Metastasis Research Society Board

Group leader Prof. Ulrike Stein of the Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC) has been elected to the Board of the Metastasis Research Society (MRS). She will begin her term in autumn of 2016.
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Cancer immunotherapy: MDC researchers win start-up competition

A big moment for cancer-fighting T-cell therapy: “Captain T Cell,” a start-up project led by researchers from the MDC, has won this year’s OneStart competition in London.