T cells target mutations to fight solid tumors

23-Feb-2016 - The efficacy of the immune system to combat disease makes the body's own healing powers a promising approach in the fight against cancer. A Berlin research group led by Wolfgang Uckert, Thomas Blankenstein and Matthias Leisegang has been collaborating with U.S. researcher Hans Schreiber in a ...

Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award 2010: EUR 30,000 for young research scientists

29-Nov-2010 - The winners of the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award 2010 have been announced. The prizes, each worth EUR 10,000, have been awarded by an independent scientific committee of the Bayer Science & Education Foundation. The Bayer foundation presents the Bayer Early Excellence in Science Award ...

Immune Cells Also Attack Neurons Directly

New Findings on Multiple Sclerosis

24-Sep-2010 - Researchers in Germany have gained new insight into how the immune system causes damage associated with multiple sclerosis (MS), an incurable neuroinflammatory disorder. Using imaging tools which enable investigation of processes in living organisms, they were able to show a direct interaction ...

Analytica Research Prize for Dr. Matthias Selbach of MDC

New Method for Measuring the Production of Thousands of Proteins

31-Mar-2010 - Dr. Matthias Selbach, biologist at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, has been honored with the Analytica Research Prize 2010 in an award ceremony at the Analytica 2010 trade fair in Munich. Dr. Selbach received the prize, which is endowed with 25 000 ...

How Cells Tolerate DNA Damage

MDC Researchers Identify Start Signal for Cell Survival Program

18-Nov-2009 - Cancer researchers of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch have gained new insights into how cells react to DNA damage. Dr. Michael Stilmann, Dr. Michael Hinz and Professor Claus Scheidereit have shown that the protein PARP-1, which detects DNA damage within seconds, ...

Camouflage mechanism of cancer cells in Hodgkin's lymphoma decoded

Curt Meyer Memorial Prize for Dr. Stephan Mathas and Dr. Martin Janz

08-Jul-2008 - Cancer researchers Dr. Martin Janz and Dr. Stephan Mathas of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Charité - University Medicine Berlin, Germany, have been honored with the Curt Meyer Memorial Prize for their research on Hodgkin's lymphoma. They received the ...

Friedrich Luft Received Novartis Award for his Research on Hypertension

Luft's group identified a specific gene region on chromosome 12 as a reason

01-Oct-2007 - Physician and hypertension researcher, Professor Friedrich C. Luft, from Berlin, Germany has received the Novartis Award for Hypertension Research from the American Heart Association in Tuscon, Arizona, USA. He was honored for his research on the genetic causes of hypertension, the effects of ...

Immunization Against Type 1 Diabetes - Mice Successfully Treated

29-May-2007 - Researchers in France and Germany have successfully treated type 1 diabetic mice with a vaccination. The vaccine they designed in this model included structures that the immune system mistakenly attacks in type 1 diabetes. The researchers showed that, in principle, it is possible to treat ...

First Evidence for a Touch Receptor Gene in Mammals

19-Dec-2006 - The skin is the largest sensory organ in humans. The sensory innervation of the skin allows us to perceive touch and pain. Now, Christiane Wetzel, a researcher in the laboratory of Professor Gary Lewin at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, and her ...

Mutation Causes Heart Muscle Disorder - Researchers in Berlin und Boston Detect Genetic Defect

05-Dec-2006 - A mutation in a gene responsible for the adhesion of adjacent cells of the heart is the cause of a potentially lethal heart muscle disorder. The evidence has been provided by a team of researchers including Dr. Arnd Heuser of the Max Delbrück Center of Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, ...