Researcher Profiles

How exactly does gut bacteria affect our health? This is what the Swedish bioinformatician Sofia Forslund is trying to figure out. She also wants to develop a software that helps keep people from getting sick.

Neurophysiologist Gary Lewin researches the fundamentals of pain perception at the Max Delbrück Center, where he has made inspiring discoveries – not only with naked mole rats. Lewin’s research results could lead to new pain-relieving medications for humans.

He is a molecular biologist and physician, GDR revolutionary and civil rights activist, bioethicist and still today a formative researcher and ombudsman at the Max Delbrück Center. On the 80th birthday of Professor Jens Reich.

Walter Birchmeier is celebrating his 75th Birthday – a time to celebrate his immense contributions to the MDC and to science.

What do short fingers and high blood pressure in common? And how bad is salt really for our health? Fred Luft is more than a researcher, he is a physician as well. Now, he celebrated his 75th birthday.

Klaus Rajewsky reflects on over 50 years of excellent research and the lab culture that made it possible

MDC structural biologist Prof. Udo Heinemann is much in demand; with his research activities and expertise he enjoys an outstanding international reputation. So it comes as no surprise that he has now been elected onto one of the Review Boards at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). As a scientist, he is primarily interested in the crystallisation of proteins. Let's take a closer look at Heinemann’s career.

When Wolfgang Uckert arrived on the scientific campus in Buch as a 22 year-old in 1974, he never imagined it as a place he would call home for 40 years.