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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)

The Arthur Burkhard Foundation for the Advancement of Science gives its award in 2022 to MBExC member Viola Priesemann from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) and the University of Göttingen. The award, endowed with 10,000 euros, is presented annually to outstanding scientists who have made outstanding

The DFG FOR (“Research Unit”) 2848 “Nanoscale Architecture and Heterogeneity of the Mitochondrial Inner Membrane” coordinated by MBExC member Stefan Jakobs (Clinic for Neurology, UMG/MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences) is funded for another 3 years with 1.3 Million Euros. Since 2019, the scientists have been working on questions concerning the nanostructure

The group of MBExC member Niels Voigt with first author HSC member Will Seibertz and co-authors demonstrate for the first time successful recordings of all expected ion channel currents and action potentials from freshly isolated mammalian atrial and ventricular cardiomyocytes on the Nanion SyncroPatch 384. This work has recently been