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We are deeply saddened about the death of our MBExC-PhD student and Hertha Sponer College member Arun Sathyan. He has been a highly motivated and very estimated collegian, and a dear friend. Aruns friendly and open-minded being will be greatly missed at the Hertha Sponer College and the MBExC. Our

At its meeting on 23 June 2022 in Berlin, the Max Planck Society’s Senate unanimously appointed MBExC member Patrick Cramer as new President-elect of the Max Planck Society for the term of office from 2023 to 2029. The chemist and molecular biologist currently serves as Managing Director at the Max

Despite vast improvements in microscopy, there is still a remarkable gap between resolution in all three dimensions. A research team led by MBExC member Jörg Enderlein (University of Göttingen) together with researchers from the University of Würzburg and the Center for Cancer Research (USA), has investigated a technique for super-resolution

With a history spanning more than 300 years, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities is a scientific association steeped in tradition. Patrick Cramer is now one of 13 newly admitted members. Link to the MPI-NAT press release (in German)

The German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina honors the biophysicist and MBExC member Helmut Grubmüller for his outstanding scientific achievements and the special expertise in his field of research. Link to the MPI-NAT press release (in German)

The “Parkinson Foundation” honors scientists of the University Medical Center Göttingen for their project proposal “Glycation of alpha-synuclein as biomarker” with the Innovation Award in the category “Basic Research”. The Innovation Prize is endowed with 100 000 euros. Dr. Annekatrin König, research associate, and Prof. Dr. Tiago Fleming Outeiro, MBExC

Göttingen researchers succeeded in measuring the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine from nerve cells with unprecedented accuracy. This enables scientists to study the mechanisms that control dopamine signaling in more detail and to better elucidate the development of related diseases. Link to the MPI-NAT press release (in German)

The German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) is funding research into personalised treatment options for Noonan syndrome in the Stem Cell Unit at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) with 467,580 euros. The team led by MBExC member Dr Lukas Cyganek will conduct research for three years on the topic

The academy honors the director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Multidisciplinary Sciences and MBExC member with the admission as a Foreign Member for her innovative research on the structure and function of ribosomes – the protein factories of cells. Link to the press release of the MPI-NAT (in German)

Researchers at the University Medical Center Göttingen and the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Spain have succeeded for the first time worldwide, in stimulating hearing in vivo by light without the need for genetic manipulation. This new light-controlled drug, capable of triggering the neural pathways involved in hearing, can