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GEF25 symposium: Göttingen celebrates milestones in fluorescence microscopy
12.06.2025

GEF25 symposium: Göttingen celebrates milestones in fluorescence microscopy

The first Göttingen Expansion Microscopy Forum (GEF25) will focus on the latest advances from a decade since the development of expansion microscopy, which is currently revolutionizing modern biological imaging. The focus will be on the latest developments that make this technique accessible and affordable to all laboratories and thus celebrated
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Innovative technology provides new insights into the development of serious diseases
10.06.2025

Innovative technology provides new insights into the development of serious diseases

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) are developing a new method to better understand the energy production of human cells. Disruptions in this process lead to serious and often fatal diseases that can affect skeletal muscle and nerve cells as well as the heart. The results have been
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Madame de Staël Prize awarded to Viola Priesemann
04.06.2025

Madame de Staël Prize awarded to Viola Priesemann

The ALLEA award recognizes MBExC member Viola Priesemann, Board Member of the German Young Academy (“Die Junge Akademie”), for her groundbreaking contributions to interdisciplinary science, her exceptional leadership during the pandemic, and her dedication to fostering pan-European collaboration in science, policy, and public health.   Link to the press release
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Audiovisual art project lets you experience “hearing with light”
02.06.2025

Audiovisual art project lets you experience “hearing with light”

Under the leadership of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), researchers from Göttingen, together with audiologists and artists from the fields of film and music, have translated the sound experience with an optogenetic cochlear implant into image and sound. The music video artistically conveys the restoration of “hearing with light”,
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Enigmatic ring carriers: Göttingen researchers uncover the structural secret of the ferline
28.05.2025

Enigmatic ring carriers: Göttingen researchers uncover the structural secret of the ferline

Researchers from the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Mutliscale Bioimaging (MBExC) have uncovered the 3D structure of the membrane proteins myoferlin and dysferlin using high-resolution cryo-electron microscopy. The findings enable new approaches for the development of targeted drugs for the treatment of diseases such as muscle atrophy, hearing disorders and certain
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Out of the Excellence Strategy competition
22.05.2025

Out of the Excellence Strategy competition

The University of Göttingen has been turned down for the Excellence Strategy of the German national and state governments: funding for the Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC) Cluster of Excellence will not be extended. This was announced today by the Excellence Commission, the joint committee of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and
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Timo Betz and his team receive audience award in science category
21.05.2025

Timo Betz and his team receive audience award in science category

MBExC member Prof. Dr. Timo Betz and his team received the audience award in the science category of the startup competition LIFT-OFF 2025 of the University of Göttingen for their project „ArtifiCell“. The group offers solutions for growing and analysing human 3D miniature tissues in order to test and develop
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Audiovisual art project allows ‘hearing with light’ experience
20.05.2025

Audiovisual art project allows ‘hearing with light’ experience

Under the leadership of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), researchers in Göttingen, together with audiologists and artists from the fields of film and music, have translated the sound experience with an optogenetic cochlear implant into images and sound. The music video artistically conveys the restoration of ‘hearing with light’,
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Illumination in the cochlea
11.05.2025

Illumination in the cochlea

Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung reports on hearing research in Göttingen: A new dimension of hearing for those who are deaf or extremely hard of hearing. A large research network in Göttingen around MBExC member Tobias Moser is developing a high-tech hearing aid that uses light and genetic engineering to enable hearing.
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Oskar Lapp Research Award 2025 for cardiovascular research goes to Göttingen
07.05.2025

Oskar Lapp Research Award 2025 for cardiovascular research goes to Göttingen

Scientists from the ‘Molecular Pharmacology’ working group at the Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) have been awarded this year’s Oskar Lapp Research Award. Dr. Funsho Fakuade, postdoctoral researcher, and medical students Dominik Hubricht and Vanessa Möller were presented with the award at the
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