These awards recognize outstanding research and innovation in biotechnology and health, rewarding top projects in human and animal health. This year, the prize money is €40,000 for human health and €25,000 for animal health.Applications deadline:…

How can social robots be effectively integrated into everyday care to improve the supervision and support of senior citizens? The results of a current study at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU) should shed light on…

Team from Charité succeeds again in apparently fully eliminating HIV from a patient’s body

He went down in medical history: the “Berlin Patient,” the first person in the world to be cured of HIV, following a stem cell transplant at Charité –…

Deep metagenomic sequencing of wastewater in Berlin over 17 months shows this technique could help forecast disease outbreaks and monitor the spread of human pathogens. It can also reveal thousands of novel viruses, according to a study by the…

Researchers in Gary Lewin’s lab at the Max Delbrück Center have identified an ion channel that contributes to chronic pain, suggesting a new target for pain medication. The study was published in “Brain.”

The Max Delbrück Center, Berlin, celebrates its new, innovative research building with a “topping-out ceremony.” The Imaging Innovation Center, designed by the architectural firm heinlewischer, will host researchers specializing in imaging and…

The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected Professor Claudia Langenberg of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), and of the Precision Healthcare University Research Institute (PHURI) at Queen Mary University of London,…

On July 8, the Max Delbrück Center and Bruker will kick off a strategic partnership to build a first-of-its-kind innovation hub for systems medicine. The new center will focus on the development and application of mass spectrometry based single-cell…

A new NMR spectrometer has been in operation at the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) since the end of May. What makes it special is that it is based on a new type of ceramic high-temperature superconductor. Peter…