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With beginning of the new year, neuroscientist Dr. Thomas Frank took up a MBExC Junior Research Group for Zebrafish Neurobiology. Together with his team, he aims on understanding how the brain processes smells and how that leads to specific actions and flexible behaviors. Neuronal information processing at multiple scales, from

The Göttingen physicist and MBExC-member Prof. Dr. Stefan Hell has received the “In Publica Commoda” medal of honor from the University of Göttingen. With this award, the university honors his merits in basic research at the Göttingen site and the development of the Göttingen Campus. Link to the press release

Season’s greetings and best wishes for a happy, healthy and successful year 2023!

A new generation of cochlear implants aims to make hearing easier for people with hearing disorders. Tobias Moser wants to make new worlds of sound accessible to those affected with a new generation of hearing aids. The so-called optical cochlear implants are an example of therapies based on findings from

On December 13, MBExC member Stefan Hell was ceremoniously handed over the “Werner-von-Siemens-Ring” 2022 by the “Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation”. He was awarded the individually craftet ring for his invention of super-resolution microscopy, which allows living cells to be observed at the molecular level. BioNTech scientists Uğur Şahin, Özlem

The German Research Foundation (DFG) is funding a new Collaborative Research Center (SFB) led by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) starting January 2023. The new CRC 1565, entitled “Molecular mechanisms and interplay of gene expression processes”, will receive 10 million euros for an initial funding period of four years.

As one of 24 young investigators, MBExC member Prof. Dr. Hauke Hillen is elected as a new member of the EMBO Young Investigator Programme. The programme supports excellent group leaders who have been in independent positions for less than four years and have an excellent track record of scientific achievements.

After Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s is the most common neurodegenerative disease in the world. More than six million people worldwide suffer from it. In this disease, alpha-synuclein proteins form thread-like structures called fibrils. When these fibrils clump together, they probably damage nerve cells. A research team has now shown for the first

MBExC member Prof. Dr. Timo Betz and his team received the “Science and Education” Award of the “Innovationspreis 2022” of the Landkreis Göttingen for their project about artificial muscles from the laboratory. The project target is to grow functional muscle tissue from cells (from patients) on thin glass. This enables

A new research training group “Heart and brain diseases: integrative research across organs” (RTG 2824), based at the University Medical Center Göttingen, is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with 6 Million Euros for five years, starting April 2023. “Heart and brain diseases: integrative research across organs” (RTG 2824)