Society of Friends of the MDC

For the sixth time, the MDC has granted awards to its “silent heroes.” This year’s recipients are committed staff members whose hard work out of the public eye makes a significant contribution to the smooth running of the research conducted at the MDC.

The winners of the Best Scientific Image Contest 2019 have been announced. Here you can see the best pictures.

A toast to our young scientists: On November 30, 2018, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) held a graduation ceremony for the 50 students who completed their PhDs at the MDC over the course of 2018.

The winners of the Best Scientific Image Contest 2018 will be announced at the opening of the microscopy exhibition “Invisible - Visible - Transparent” on July 25. Here is a preview of the best images.

At the Buch campus’s summer party, MDC employees Marina Sitte, Signe Knespel, and Sabine Wagner were presented with the Silent Hero Award by the Society of Friends of the MDC. Each year, the award recognizes the commitment of employees who are hard at work behind the scenes.

It was a special birthday celebration for a special birthday: 111 years ago, on September 4, Max Delbrück was born in Berlin. The MDC celebrated the birthday at the MDC congress center.

To celebrate the birthday of our namesake, the MDC and the Friends of the MDC invite everyone who is interested to a charity concert and commemorative speech on Monday, September 4th. Prof. Nikolaus Rajewsky will speak about the collaboration between Max Delbrück and Nikolai Timoféeff-Ressovsky in Berlin-Buch.

On your bikes, get ready, GO! April 29 marked the kickoff of this year's Green Campus Initiative, "Mobility," brought to you by the MDC and CampusVital. The goal is to get us moving. Most of the activities will revolve around bicycles, but if you don't have one, there will be other ways to participate.

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