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Scientific infrastructure is highly specialized and energy-intensive. During a kick-off event of the Helmholtz Competence Network for Climate-Friendly Construction in Berlin, experts from both the Helmholtz centers and the construction industry discussed how it can be designed to be climate-friendly.

Cryo-electron microscopy allows structural biologists to look at the most minute building blocks of life. We celebrated the opening of the joint Core Facility and the corresponding research building of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Max Delbrück Center with a symposium.

They say Berlin is a constant building site – and it seems Campus Berlin-Buch is no exception. A new foundation pit is currently being excavated for construction of the Max Delbrück Center’s Imaging Innovation Center, which is scheduled to open in 2025.

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”.

The new cryo-electron microscope on the Buch campus is four meters tall and captures images of tiny, nanometer-scale structures. The MDC has constructed a special building to house this feat of technology, which is now available to Berlin’s structural biology community. Dr. Christoph Diebolder of Charité heads the facility.

The Käthe Beutler Building has opened. Germany’s Federal Research Minister, Berlin’s Governing Mayor, the Chairman of the Jewish Community of Berlin and many guests inaugurated it. Around 200 specialists will work at the Berlin Center for Translational Vascular Biomedicine – for the benefit of patients.

By mid-2020 two new cryogenic electron microscopes (cryo-EM) will be available to scientists at the Buch campus. The building is almost finished, and the first crates of equipment were delivered in December. There’s still a lot to do, however, before everything is up and running.

Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurated on Tuesday the Max Delbrück Center’s new building in the heart of Berlin. Some 250 top researchers of the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) will use the facility to study how genes regulate the lives of cells and thus influence health and disease.

With a clear commitment to research and health science, Chancellor Angela Merkel opened the new MDC research building for the Berlin Institute for Molecular Systems Biology in Berlin Mitte. Her visit is now documented in more detail with additional picture galleries and videos.

The foundations have been laid for the new Käthe Beutler Building on the Berlin-Buch campus. In 2020, this building will become home to the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) – a biomedical research institution that pools the strengths of the MDC and Charité. We spoke to Professor Martin Lohse, Scientific Director of the MDC, about the cooperation.