Computational Biology

Data Science, the extraction of relevant insights from data, has firmly positioned itself at the forefront of health and life science research. Machine Learning and Deep Learning are foreseen to become key disruptive technologies within Data Science in translational research and personalized medicine applications. The cross-cutting focus area Data Science and Artificial Intelligence comprises research groups spanning MDC’s different research areas:

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Prof. Jens Reich – Bundesverdienstorden
Institute & Campus

Don’t retreat to splendid isolation

He is a molecular biologist and physician, a GDR civil rights activist and bioethicist, a person with integrity and a sense of community. Until 2022, he was an ombudsman at the Max Delbrück Center. We celebrate the 85th birthday of Professor Jens Reich.
Markus Mittnenzweig
Science

Following cells on their path to development

It borders on the miraculous how an entire animal emerges from a single egg cell. In order to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms, Markus Mittnenzweig is establishing the Computational and Developmental Biology Lab at the Max Delbrück Center.
Group picture of the Girls'Day participants at Campus Buch
Institute & Campus

Discovering IT jobs in biomedicine at Girls’Day

22 young women and girls had the opportunity to experience the day-to-day life of an IT specialist at the Corporate IT or as a researcher at the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin-Buch and Mitte during the Girls’Day event. Boys’Day was also held at the same time.
Vier Personen
Science

Supporting innovation in biomedicine

The Max Delbrück Center wants to shape the future of medicine through innovation. But turning basic research into marketable products requires gaps to be bridged. This is achieved by the Technology Transfer Office – through funding schemes such as BOOST and Pre-GoBio. The winning projects for 2023 have now been selected.
Landthaler Akalin Lewin Header
Science

Long awaited by the pharma industry

It takes great patience and perseverance to turn research findings into new technologies or therapies. The Helmholtz Initiative and Networking Fund gives financial support to “pathfinder projects” that are particularly promising. Researchers at the Max Delbrück Center have now won grants for three projects.
Deborah Schmidt vor dem MDC-Hauptgebäude.
Institute & Campus

Pixels with stories to tell

The Image Data Analysis Platform has a new leader in Deborah Schmidt. She and her team create software that processes and analyzes image data from biomedicine, material sciences, or environmental research – something that benefits the entire Helmholtz Association.
Dagmar Kainmüller
Science

Dagmar Kainmüller receives professorship

Dagmar Kainmüller develops computational methods for analyzing vast quantities of image data. On October 1, 2022, she was named Professor of Integrative Imaging Data Sciences at the University of Potsdam.
Waschbecken-Abfluss mit ablaufendem Wasser
Press Release No. 47 Berlin

Searching the sewers for viruses

Algorithms developed at the Max Delbrück Center are able to quickly detect new SARS-CoV-2 variants in wastewater. But that’s not all: the tool, which Altuna Akalin and his colleagues have now presented in “Science of the Total Environment”, can also find other pathogens.
Microscopic image of a single renal cell.
Press Release No. 46 Berlin

Key processes in acute kidney injury revealed

Peering into single cells reveals new insights into acute kidney injury. Reporting in “Genome Medicine” and “Kidney International”, research teams at BIMSB, Charité and MHH describe novel gene expression patterns that may lead to new therapeutic approaches and strategies for biomarker discovery.
Graduiertenzeremonie 2022
Institute & Campus

Completing a PhD must be celebrated

And a celebration it was: After two years of virtual graduation ceremonies due to Covid-19, doctoral students at the Max Delbrück Center were once again able to receive their graduation certificates live on stage.