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The European Research Council (ERC) is funding the work of MBExC member Prof. Dr. Hauke Hillen, Institute of Cell Biochemistry, University Medical Center Göttingen and Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, with an ERC Starting Grant of 1.5 million euros for a period of five years.   This highly endowed,

The Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation SPRIND in collaboration with Life Science Factory will host a live podcast event with MBExC member Wolfram Zimmermann from the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) on 6 September 2023 at 4 pm at the Life Science Factory in Göttingen. The program includes two 30-minute

In the new episode of “Neuroscience and Beyond” MBExC member André Fischer, Director at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) site Göttingen and Professor at the Department for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) talks about “Alzheimer’s disease and Epigenetics”. The focus of this interview is on

MBExC junior fellow Nadja Simeth-Crespi receives ESP Young Investigator Award As recently announced by the European Society for Photobiology (ESP) on X, former Twitter, MBExC Junior Research Group leader and PI Nadja A. Simeth-Crespi, Institute of Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, University of Göttingen, receives the 2023 ESP Young Investigator Award.

Göttingen research team explores information processing in Deep Neural Networks Artificial neural networks are everywhere in research and technology, as well as in everyday technologies such as speech recognition. Despite this, it is still unclear to researchers what is exactly going on deep down in these networks. To find out,

Patrick Cramer, president of the Max Planck Society and MBExC member, received the Bavarian “Maximiliansorden” for Science and Art on 26 July. The “Maximiliansorden” is awarded every two years by the Minister President in recognition of outstanding achievements in the fields of science and art and represents a particularly high

Göttingen researchers, led by MBExC member Frauke Alves (University Medical Center Göttingen and MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences) are involved in an European project to develop a new generation of fluorescence imaging in the near infrared range. In combination with specific optical probes, the method is to be used for imaging

Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects millions of people worldwide and so far there is no cure for this disease of the central nervous system. Damage to nerve fibers, also called axons, is responsible for the severity of the disease in patients and the course of MS. The protective layer of the

The State of Lower Saxony and the VolkswagenFoundation have granted researchers of the University Medical Center Göttingen, the Leibniz University Hannover and the Clusters of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging and Hearing4all funding by the zukunft.niedersachsen program. Their project on the development of optical cochlear implants for the restoration of hearing in

At the Plenary Assembly of the Max Planck Society in Göttingen on June 22, 2023, Martin Stratmann symbolically passed on the responsibility to his successor, MBExC member Patrick Cramer, by handing over the chain of office. Cramer paid tribute to Stratmann’s achievements and outlined the three main areas of focus