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Research at the Max Delbrück Center aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of health and disease, and translate those findings into medical practice.

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Enabling multi-modal prediction from molecules to cohorts.

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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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AI helps people and doctors make medical decisions

Online symptom checkers often miss the mark. Can AI do better? Researchers from Altuna Akalin’s team at MDC-BIMSB put large language models to the test – evaluating their ability to guide patients and support doctors. Their study was published in “npj Digital Medicine.”
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Michael Robson awarded grants to study chromatin

Michael Robson has won two new grants from the DFG and the Human Frontier Science Program totaling over €2 million. He and his lab are now working to decode the mechanics of chromatin, hoping to finally define its physical state and better understand how it governs gene regulation.
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Knowledge for your ears

The Life Science Learning Lab has launched a new podcast intended to spark young people’s interest in research. During the first three episodes of “scienceCLASH,” students from Berlin interviewed Sarah Kedziora and Theda Bartolomaeus from the ECRC about the gut microbiome’s influence on heart health.
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Joint Berlin Data & AI Center planned

Data-driven research is crucial for tackling societal challenges. In a collaboration that is so far unique, Berlin's Universities of Excellence, the Max Delbrück Center, and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, together with the Zuse Institute Berlin, aim to establish a powerful Data and AI Center.
2D map of gene expression in the metastatic lymph node

Millions in funding for two Clusters of Excellence

The Max Delbrück Center is a partner in one newly awarded Berlin based Clusters of Excellence: ImmunoPreCept. NeuroCure has also won another round of funding. All researchers are working toward a common goal – to develop therapies that can intercept diseases on a molecular level.
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More visibility for female scientists

The Zia fellowship supports young female researchers in their professional and personal development. Interested applicants can apply for next year’s fellowship in July and August. Evangelia Nathanail from the Max Delbrück Center is a current fellow — and highly recommends the program.
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Meditation in the museum

“The Healing Museum” combines art history with meditation, mindfulness, and medical research. The project, which aims to strengthen the mental health of visitors, was created through a collaboration between the Bode Museum and the ECRC and was spearheaded by Carmen Infante Duarte.
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Institute & Campus

Stan Gorski takes the helm of Strategic Initiatives

Stan Gorski has been appointed Head of Strategic Initiatives. He and his team aim to drive strategic developments in areas such as spatial biomedicine, AI, bioengineering and precision prevention. They will also strengthen collaborations among institutions and help set a bold agenda for the future.
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A microscopy network in West Africa

Senegalese scientists gained hands-on microscopy and image analysis training during a workshop to strengthen regional biomedical research capacity in Africa. The workshop was headed by Peran Hayes, who will present the project as a contestant in this year’s EU-LIFE Science Vision Talk Contest.

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Publications

Reprogramming of two induced pluripotent stem cell clones from a patient with a novel MT-ATP6/8 mutation (m.8570 T > C)

Stem Cell Res

Ploidy in cardiovascular development and regeneration

Semin Cell Dev Biol

Intermuscular adipose tissue and lean muscle mass assessed with MRI in people with chronic back pain in Germany: a retrospective observational study

Lancet Reg Health Eur

Cardiac regeneration: unraveling the complex network of intercellular crosstalk

Semin Cell Dev Biol

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