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Research Highlights

Our research teams publish around 450 specialist articles every year. Our research highlights can be found here, presented in a comprehensible format.

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Research News & Events

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The real story about probiotics

Probiotics are good for us, right? International experts – including Sofia Forslund – take on the literature in “Nature Reviews.” They find that more research is needed to determine what exactly makes for a healthy microbiome and if probiotics can restore healthy microbes killed off by antibiotics.
Eleonora Adami exhibition opening
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Images of transformation

In her exhibition “Metamorphosis,” Eleonora Adami showcases digital illustrations and cyanotype prints. These works, which invite viewers to reflect on the concepts of change and transformation, will be on display at MDC-BIMSB until the end of January.
Quentin Sattentau
Institute & Campus

What are you reading, Mr Sattentau?

Quentin Sattentau, professor of immunology, has been researching how lymphocytes communicate during cell activation and death since 2022 at the Max Delbrück Center. A passionate reader, he recommends the new novel by a young Irish author, often celebrated as the “voice of a generation.”
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Wonders of the animal world

In collaboration with illustrator Kat Menschik, Max Delbrück Center science writer Russell Hodge has published a book about the bizarre traits some animals have evolved to cope with their harsh environments. He also explores what we can learn from them. The work was supported by Stiftung Charité.
Ana Pombo

Leibniz Prize awarded to Ana Pombo

The German Research Foundation (DFG) has announced that biochemist Ana Pombo from the Max Delbrück Center is among this year’s winners of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize. With a grant of €2.5 million, the Leibniz Prize is one of the highest endowed research prizes in Germany.
Maike Sander
Institute & Campus

Maike Sander elected member of the BBAW

On Einstein Day 2024, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities elected four new members. Maike Sander is among the new inductees. We congratulate her!
Abeer Hassan
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Studying how mechanical forces induce neuronal growth

For the next two years, Abeer Hassan will be a visiting postdoctoral fellow in Gary Lewin’s lab at Max Delbrück Center – going back and forth between Rehovot and Berlin. She seeks to learn more about the mechanisms through which mechanical forces stimulate neurons to elongate, especially after birth.
Della Nelva
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Searching for signatures of stress in the brain

Nella Christie Delva joins the lab of Annette Hammes-Lewin’s as a Fulbright scholar. Over the next few months, she will study how environmental stressors cause genetic and neural changes in the brain during development, which can lead to mental health disorders.
Thomas Sommer

The Max Delbrück Center bids farewell to Thomas Sommer

For three decades, Thomas Sommer conducted research at the Max Delbrück Center and shaped its development: as a scientist, ombudsman, committee representative, and interim board member. On December 6, the center honored him with a symposium on his favorite topic — the cell's recycling system.

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Publications

Cytokine-armed vaccinia virus promotes cytotoxicity toward pancreatic carcinoma cells via activation of human intermediary CD56(dim)CD16(dim) natural killer cells

Int J Cancer

Concurrent profiling of localized transcriptome and RNA dynamics in neurons by spatial SLAMseq

Methods Mol Biol

Simplified preanalytical laboratory procedures for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in patients treated with high-dose methotrexate (HD-MTX) and glucarpidase

Clin Chem Lab Med

Multimodal longitudinal optical imaging reveals optic neuritis preceding retinal pathology in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm

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