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MBExC member Professor Timo Betz, University of Göttingen, has been awarded a Proof of Concept (PoC) grant by the European Research Council (ERC) for his “TissMec” project to develop a 3D screening system to cultivate tissue and automatically stimulate and quantify its mechanical properties. PoC ERC grants provide top-up funding

50 images from basic neuroscientific research were collected by employees of the Department of Experimental Neurodegeneration at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) under the direction of MBExC member Prof. Dr. Tiago Outeiro and Dr. Anita Krisko and assembled into an installation. This installation served Malte Orth as the basis

Researchers at Göttingen University are involved in research projects funded by Human Frontier Science Program.   Biophysicist Professor and MBExC member Andreas Janshoff from the Faculty of Chemistry, together with researchers from the University of Warwick (who lead the project), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Columbia University will investigate

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