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Our Research

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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Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

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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Institute & Campus

Sibylle Bergemann photo exhibition

Since April 3, MDC-BIMSB in Berlin Mitte has been hosting an exhibition of 40 photographs by iconic photographer Sibylle Bergemann. During the opening, which was attended by her daughter Frieda and granddaughter Lily von Wild, the rooftop terrace was named in Bergemann’s honor.
Peter M. Schlag
Institute & Campus

In memory of Professor Peter M. Schlag

The Max Delbrück Center mourns the loss of Professor Peter M. Schlag (1948–2025). He was a pioneer of cancer research and a passionate physician. Schlag worked as a group leader at our research center for more than two decades.
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Unraveling cell polarity with the help of AI

Max Delbrück Center and Helmholtz Imaging scientists have developed open-source software that simplifies the study of cell polarity with fluorescence microscopy. Published in “Nature Communications,” the innovation may streamline research on many basic biological processes such as tissue repair.
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Curious minds at UniStem Day 2025

Around 220 high school students from across Berlin came to the conference center of the Max Delbrück Center in Buch in mid-March with one topic on their minds: stem cell research. For the tenth time, the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN, stem cell research dialogue platform at BIH) hosted UniStem Day.
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Institute & Campus

What are you reading, Mr Sai?

Somesh Sai is a postdoc in the Sander lab. He explores how islet beta cells adapt to metabolic stress at the single-cell level. As a Postdoc Representative, he loves to organize events like Postdoc lunches and After Hours. He recommends a Chinese author who gained global fame for his sci-fi novels.
Udo Heinemann
Science

Carl Hermann Medal awarded to Udo Heinemann

What does the 3D structure of protein look like? And what does this mean about its function? For decades, structural biologist Udo Heinemann has explored these questions at the Max Delbrück Center. Now, the German Society for Crystallography is honoring his life’s work.
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Inequality raises disease risk, especially for women

A study led by Tobias Pischon has found that low socioeconomic status raises the risk of cardiovascular disease in women more so than in men. The study in the "Journal of the American Heart Association" underlines the importance of gender-specific prevention.
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New treatment approach for rare blood cancer of the skin

Researchers from Medical University of Vienna, Charité Berlin and Max Delbrück Center have identified the CD74 protein as a new drug target to treat deadly skin lymphoma. The study was published in the “British Journal of Dermatology.”
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“Jugend forscht” at Campus Berlin-Buch

From better 3D printers for biological structures to soil remediation with microorganisms – in the 60th round of “Jugend forscht,” regional students presented their exciting research projects on the Berlin-Buch campus.

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Publications

Identification of TTLL8, POTEE, and PKMYT1 as immunogenic cancer-associated antigens and potential immunotherapy targets in ovarian cancer

Oncoimmunology

Mucosal washes are useful for sampling intestinal mucus-associated microbiota despite low biomass

Gut Microbes

The concept of neuroglia - the state of the art circa 1900

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Distinguishing neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders subtypes: a study on AQP4 and C3d epitope expression in cytokine-primed human astrocytes

Glia

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