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The first brains in the world of animals marked a decisive step in evolution. Living beings could now process information and identify opportunities as well as dangers. But how did the first brains evolve and what form did they take? MBExC member Fred Wolf from the University of Göttingen and

The world’s only clinical trial in which patients with heart failure are implanted with artificial heart tissue to permanently strengthen the heart muscle has reached its first important milestone: the determination of the maximum safe dose was completed after treatment of 10 patients. The BioVAT-HF-DZHK20 study is conducted at the

We are pleased to welcome Prof. Dr. Emilie Macé who took up the newly established professorship for “Dynamics of Excitable Cell Networks” at the University Medical Center on April 1st. With her expertise in functional ultrasound imaging that she pioneered, Emilie significantly strengthens the multiscale research approach of the MBExC.

Congratulations! Our Hertha Sponer College members Lennart Roos, clincian scientist at the MBExC, and Inés Hojas Garcia-Plaza, Ph.D. student at the MPI-NAT City Campus received the 1st and 2nd prize of the „Breaking News‘ Best Paper Award 2023“ at the 15th Göttingen Meeting of the German Neuroscience Society.

To connect neuroscience from around the world through visual and performance art. Science is founded on the creativity of the human mind, much like art. Spray painting is a versatile technique that is used at a global scale, to convey messages throughout history. In this event, art and neuroscience will

Optical cochlear implants promise to improve the restoration of hearing in hearing loss and deafness. A Göttingen team of hearing researchers around Antoine Huet have now defined for the first time the biologically plausible range of stimulation parameters for the use of the optical cochlea implant in humans. Published in

Prof. Dr. Tobias Moser, MBExC spokesperson and Director of the Institute for Auditory Neuroscience at the University Medical Center Göttingen, received an ERC Proof of Concept Grant for his project on „Waveguide-based Cochlear Implants for Optogenetic Stimulation“ (OptoWave). The grant about 150.000 euros enables researchers to bridge the gap between

Rubén Fernández Busnadiego, expert in cryo-electron microscopy at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and member of the MBExC received a Consolidator Grant of the European Research Council (ERC). The ERC supports his research project ”In situ structural basis of human axonopathies“ (“cryoNERVE“) over five years with a total of

A research team at the University of Göttingen has developed a new method to produce X-ray images in colour. In the past, the only way to determine the chemical composition of a sample and the position of its components using X-ray fluorescence analysis was to focus the X-rays and scan

Mathematician and data scientist Dr. Gilles Mordant from the Institute for Mathematical Stochastics at the University of Göttingen, headed by MBExC-member Prof. Dr. Axel Munk, has received the prize for the Annual Contest (section mathematics) of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium. The prize is