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Founded in January 2025, Ovo Labs is a biotech company that has emerged from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen (Germany). The company develops novel therapeutics to improve the quality of human eggs. The active compounds are designed to help women remain fertile for longer and

110 scientists clearly affirm their commitment to animal research: “We conduct animal experiments!”   On the occasion of the World Day for Laboratory Animals on 24 April 2025, 110 leading scientists from Germany (including MBExC members) are publicly affirming their commitment to animal research. Under the joint statement “We conduct

With the signing of an equity agreement on April 2, 2025, biotech pioneers Repairon GmbH and life science investor Bioventure Management GmbH, both based in Göttingen, have entered into a strategic partnership with the potential to fundamentally change the treatment of heart failure worldwide. Bioventure is investing in Repairon –

Congratulations to MBExC member Nadja Simeth-Crespi on her appointment as W2 Professor of Molecular Labeling Chemistry at the University of Göttingen!   Prof. Simeth-Crespi and her team’s research intersects the boundaries of bioorganic and photochemistry, with a focus on the design of smart drugs, biochemical probes and labels, as well

Göttingen research team constructs network of self-learning infomorphic neurons   Novel artificial neurons learn independently and are more strongly modeled on their biological counterparts. A team of researchers from the Göttingen Campus Institute for Dynamics of Biological Networks (CIDBN) at the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Institute for

MBExC member Dr. Thomas Frank has received €360,000 in project funding over three years from the Schram Foundation. His project “Cellular mechanisms and brain-wide circuits of chemosensory valence coding” uses zebrafish as a model organism to investigate how the brain processes sensory information, such as odors, across different levels of

Shadows and glimpses of light: structure and function of the interstitial space in the brain   MBExC member Prof. Dr. Urs Valentin Nägerl has held the University Professorship of Anatomy and Cell Biology at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) since September 1, 2024 and heads the Institute of Anatomy

Dr. Shayan Hundrieser, mathematician from the University of Göttingen has been honored with the prestigious Dissertation Award by the Probability and Statistics Group of the German Mathematical Society. The award acknowledges outstanding research by promising young scientists in the field of stochastics. His dissertation, entitled “Statistical Optimal Transport and its

    Welcome to the exhibition ‘Heart & Brain – Understanding Together’! On this virtual tour, we invite you to join us on a journey through the past special exhibition of the Göttingen Cluster of Excellence Multiscale Bioimaging (MBExC), which took place in the Göttingen Forum Wissen in 2024. With

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences have shown, for the first time, how the genetic material of the Nipah virus replicates in infected cells. The virus can cause fatal encephalitis in humans. Using cryo-electron microscopy, the team led by