Institute & Campus September 02, 2022 Heisenberg Program accepts RNA biologist Errors in cellular RNA metabolism are dangerous for nerve cells. For her work in this area, Marina Chekulaeva has now been accepted into the DFG Heisenberg program.
Science August 19, 2022 Award for stem cell scientist Simon Haas Simon Haas receives the Young Investigator Award 2022 of the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN). Haas leads the research group Systemic Hematology, Stem Cells & Precision Medicine in the joint research focus "Single Cell Approaches for Personalized Medicine" of BIH, Charité and MDC.
Institute & Campus June 21, 2022 Medal for scent research 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.
Press Release No. 27 June 16, 2022 Berlin Cancer Grand Challenge: Solving the mystery of DNA rings Pediatric oncologist Anton Henssen and a group of researchers from the US and the UK have won funding for a Cancer Grand Challenge. The international team will receive almost €24 million to research the role that ring-shaped strands of DNA play in the development of cancer, and how to fight them.
Science May 30, 2022 📺 FameLab: spring cleaning of the cell Three minutes – that's all the time Anita Waltho had at the 2022 German FameLab final in Bielefeld earlier this month. The competition is about presenting your research in an entertaining, easy-to-digest manner to capture the jury, and of course, the audience.
Science May 19, 2022 A hero in the fight against hypertension He has devoted much of his life to studying high blood pressure. Now Friedrich Luft has been honored for his significant contributions. The World Hypertension League has given him the Peter Sleight Award for Excellence in Hypertension Clinical Research.
Institute & Campus May 06, 2022 Outstanding architecture Translucent and offering abundant space for communication to systems biologists at the BIMSB: The Association of German Architects has praised the building of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), which was be completed in 2019, at the “BDA Prize Berlin”.
Press Release No. 21 April 26, 2022 Berlin ERC Advanced Grant for cardiac research at MDC The contractile and elastic properties of the heart are finely tuned. This is a prerequisite for the cardiac cycle and efficient adaptation. At the MDC, Michael Gotthardt investigates the underlying molecular and biomechanical mechanisms. He is awarded with an ERC Advanced Grant for this work.
Press Release No. 15 April 01, 2022 Berlin 📺 Award-winning science communication One of the MDC's most cited press releases last year revealed that naked mole-rats speak in different dialects. The communications team now has another reason to feel proud of this particular press release, because it has won first prize in this year's Award for Science Communication presented by science information service idw (Informationsdienst Wissenschaft).
Science March 29, 2022 Outstanding ECRC cardiologists In muscular dystrophies, there can also be a deterioration in the heart's function. For a study on such cardiac involvement, the German Society for Muscular Dystrophies (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Muskelkranke e.V.) has awarded ECRC researchers Jeanette Schulz-Menger and Edyta Blaszczyk the Ulrich Brodeßer FSHD Prize 2022.