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The ALLEA award recognizes MBExC member Viola Priesemann, Board Member of the German Young Academy (“Die Junge Akademie”), for her groundbreaking contributions to interdisciplinary science, her exceptional leadership during the pandemic, and her dedication to fostering pan-European collaboration in science, policy, and public health.   Link to the MPI-DS press

From 1 December, Dr. Oliver Barnstedt will take up the newly established junior research group leader position for “Multiscale Circuit Analysis” at the University Medical Center Göttingen. The neuroscientist and his team will investigate how the hippocampal memory system integrates sensory and motor information to form long-lasting memories and, importantly,

From 25 November 2024, the Centre for Rare Hearing Disorders will form a further focus of the Centre for Rare Diseases Göttingen (ZSEG) at the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG). In the new centre, various UMG institutions will work together on an interdisciplinary basis in the fields of diagnostics, research

The German Research Foundation (DFG) will fund a new Collaborative Research Centres (CRC) led by the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) from 1 April 2025. The new CRC 1690, entitled “Disease Mechanisms and Functional Restoration of Sensory and Motor Systems”, will receive more than twelve million euros for an initial

The innovation network Niedersachsen.next has honoured NanoDrug Delivery GmbH with the Lower Saxony Innovation Award 2024 in the ‘Knowledge and Technology Transfer’ category. The spin-off of the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences (MPI-NAT), the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) received the award

Researchers from the Heart Center of the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) led by MBExC member Priv.-Doz. Dr. Sören Brandenburg, have identified a protein that plays a central role in the heart’s adaptation to increased stress. The results of the study were published in the renowned journal ‘Circulation Research’.  

This year, the German University Medicine Award goes to a research team for a globally unique approach: the ‘heart patch’ – a therapy using stem cells to repair the heart muscle and strengthen the heart permanently. The study is a prime example of translational research, from the laboratory to clinical

Approximately 400 times in a woman’s life, a mature egg makes the “leap.” It is released into the fallopian tube, ready for fertilization by the sperm. Researchers led by Melina Schuh, Christopher Thomas, and Tabea Lilian Marx from the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences have now succeeded in

A team led by physicists Steffen Sahl and Stefan Hell at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences in Göttingen and the MPI for Medical Research in Heidelberg has succeeded in measuring distances within biomolecules using a light microscope, down to 1 nanometer and with Ångström precision. The intra-molecular