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A confocal microscopy image of cochlear tissue from the inner ear shows cells successfully transduced by the viral vector Anc80L65, which carries a fluorescent marker that glows green.Credit: Lukas Landegger

30.09.2026

Restoring hearing in people with a rare form of deafness

How a decades-long quest led to the first gene therapy for deafness caused by a mutation.   A home video from 2025 captures a toddler absorbed in play with a toy bulldozer. When an adult calls out “hello”, the boy turns his head. Another video filmed around nine months later
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Prof. Dr. Axel Schölmerich, President of the University of Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Claudia Steinem, vize speaker of the MBExC and head of the Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser, speaker of the MBExC and director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), as well as Falko Mohrs, Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (v.l.n.r.). Photo: umg/ronald schmidt

30.09.2026

Eight Years of Cutting-Edge Research on the Heart and Brain — MBExC Continues to Make an Impact

With the international symposium “Bioimaging across scales”, the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) reflected on eight years of interdisciplinary cutting-edge research. Groundbreaking imaging technologies were developed, molecular structures unveiled, and new insights into the function of the heart and brain achieved. Although the MBExC funding concludes at the
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Prof. Dr. Axel Schölmerich, President of the University of Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Claudia Steinem, vize speaker of the MBExC and head of the Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry at the University of Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser, speaker of the MBExC and director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), as well as Falko Mohrs, Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (v.l.n.r.). Photo: umg/ronald schmidt

30.09.2026

Eight Years of Cutting-Edge Research on the Heart and Brain — MBExC Continues to Make an Impact

With the international symposium “Bioimaging across scales”, the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) reflected on eight years of interdisciplinary cutting-edge research. Groundbreaking imaging technologies were developed, molecular structures unveiled, and new insights into the function of the heart and brain achieved. Although the MBExC funding concludes at the
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