Press Releases and News

11.04.2025

New findings on the functioning of brain networks

18.03.2025

Inflammatory messenger fuels Alzheimer’s

17.02.2025

Stressful childhood experiences accelerate brain aging

27.01.2025

Facilitating return to work after family leave: Else Kröner-Fresenius Foundation supports Charité physician

16.12.2024

Volker Haucke receives 2025 Leibniz Prize from the DFG

11.12.2024

Leibniz Prize awarded to Ana Pombo

04.12.2024

Professor Dr. Christine Heim elected as a New Member of the Leopoldina

19.11.2024

Global influencers of science

14.11.2024

Reinhart Koselleck project funding for neurobiologist Michael Brecht

11.11.2024

NeuroCure is Leaving X (formerly Twitter)

04.11.2024

Berlin Neuroscience Meeting 2024

24.10.2024

Parkinson’s disease: Brain stimulation can mimic effects of dopamine

30.09.2024

Yangfan Peng honored with the Du Bois-Reymond Prize

25.09.2024

From Molecule to Disease: PIPs Project of the Leibniz Cooperative Excellence Launched

19.09.2024

The communication campaign of the Berlin University Alliance is entering its second phase, focusing on the research of the Berlin Excellence Clusters.

28.08.2024

27.08.2024

Right- or Left-Trunked: Elephants Show Clear Preferences When Feeding

29.07.2024

Einstein Foundation Berlin Supports Further Researchers at Charité

17.07.2024

Allen Institute launches neuroscience initiatives on perception, recognition, and psychedelics

08.07.2024

Review: 2024 FENS Forum in Vienna

03.07.2024

3D maps of diseased tissues at subcellular precision

19.06.2024

How fish can hear in stereo

11.06.2024

Prof. Andreas Heinz, founding spokesperson of the DZPG, will be awarded the European Addiction Research Award 2024.

10.06.2024

How the heart and brain interact - better assessment of heart attack risk in stroke patients (PRAISE-DZHK19 study)

06.06.2024

ReTune funded for second funding period

22.04.2024

When thoughts flow in one direction

07.03.2024

Computational neurology: Christian Meisel awarded funding for Schilling Foundation professorship

28.02.2024

12 mm fish produces 140-Decibel Sound

31.01.2024

Metformin during pregnancy affects the brain development in offspring mice

31.01.2024

A neuromuscular model for drug development

29.11.2023

Senator for Science visits Charité Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure

30.10.2023

Controlling organoids with light

26.10.2023

Lysosome prove to be quick-change artists

13.10.2023

Mechanism decoded: how synapses are formed

20.09.2023

Dexterous Elephants

30.08.2023

Expression pattern of key receptors in the hypothalamus revealed

12.07.2023

New center to spotlight neurological autoimmune disorders

08.07.2023

Charité heads public-private partnership aimed at developing a diagnostic platform

06.07.2023

Professor Stephan Sigrist of Freie Universität Berlin Elected Member of the European Molecular Biology Organization

27.06.2023

Studying herpes encephalitis with mini-brains

22.06.2023

A new tool to study complex genome interactions

01.06.2023

Protecting and repairing neurons

26.05.2023

The Mechanisms Behind Swallowing

05.04.2023

ERC Advanced Grant Awarded to Neurobiologist Professor Stephan Sigrist for Research on Brain Resilience

04.04.2023

The NeuroCure Clinical Research Center has changed its name to NCRC ─ Neuroscience Clinical Research Center.

23.02.2023

Cracking the chromatin code

31.01.2023

How do we make vital decisions?

09.01.2023

Calcium-permeable channelrhodopsins for the photocontrol of calcium signalling

03.01.2023

Charité study shows that algorithm is equivalent to standard of care treatment

01.01.2023

What octopus and human brains have in common

14.12.2022

Starvation causes cell remodelling

13.12.2022

Can the neurological side effects of chemotherapy be prevented?

15.11.2022

Cluster Science Slam

24.10.2022

Trunk dexterity explained: Berlin scientists decipher facial motor control in elephants

15.09.2022

INHIBITOR OF LIPID KINASE PI3KC2Α IDENTIFIED AS POTENTIAL NEW TREATMENT OF THROMBOSIS

22.07.2022

The Einstein Foundation will fund PhD program Computational Neuroscience for three years

20.07.2022

Berlin4Ukraine: Meet & Learn - A networking event for exile researchers

08.06.2022

Top-level research in Berlin: DFG once again funds Collaborative Research Centres with 63 million euros

30.05.2022

Charité neuroscientist awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grant

16.05.2022

Career Exploration Day 2022

10.05.2022

New Berlin research projects on autism, liver diseases and neuronal learning processes as well as quantum technology approved

05.05.2022

Humboldt University and Charité receive research building for optobiology

27.04.2022

Matthew Larkum receives the European Research Council Advanced Grant for a project exploring mechanisms of anesthesia

05.04.2022

Prof. Craig Garner's farewell

23.03.2022

Two new ERC Consolidator Grants for Charité researchers

09.03.2022

Class II PI3K lipid kinase: Structure of novel drug target resolved

21.02.2022

Call for abstracts - Brain Tumor Meeting 2022

24.01.2022

Tactile Trunks - New findings on the sensory system of elephants

27.12.2021

Brenda Milner Award 2022

21.12.2021

How the Female Brain Responds to Genital Touch

16.12.2021

Brenda Milner Award 2022

03.12.2021

MYALINK - platform wins Health-i Award 2021 from Handelsblatt and Techniker Krankenkasse

18.11.2021

Genome folding in the mouse brain

19.10.2021

Unexpected pairings

24.09.2021

A Humboldt Universität scientist received one of the 2021 Lasker Awards

18.08.2021

Slow version of the glutamate receptor AMPA discovered

10.08.2021

A defective potassium channel disrupts the brain's navigation system

15.07.2021

The HumboldtLabor in the HumboldtForum opens its doors with the inaugural exhibition "After Nature"

12.07.2021

DFG to Fund 13 New Research Units

30.06.2021

In Rain Man's Synapses: Molecular consequences of autism mutations in the SHANK3 gene elucidated

21.06.2021

NeuroCure PI Michael Brecht New Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

18.06.2021

After Nature: Humboldt Lab Opens Inaugural Exhibition

16.06.2021

Einstein Center for Alternative Methods in Biomedical Research commences work

26.05.2021

Systematic ECG monitoring increased the in-hospital rate of atrial fibrillation (AF) detection among stroke survivors

12.05.2021

Low levels of a simple sugar – a new biomarker for severe MS?

05.05.2021

Haucke Lab is first certified green lab in Germany

23.04.2021

Shedding new light on Leigh syndrome with organoids

14.04.2021

Is it Possible to Slow Down Age-Related Memory Loss?

14.04.2021

Scaling up genome editing big in tiny worms

26.03.2021

Controlled scar formation in the brain

23.03.2021

Charité involved in the establishment of two new centers for health research

26.02.2021

The key to proper muscle growth

08.02.2021

Use of mobile stroke units improves clinical outcomes

12.01.2021

Intelligence deficit: Conclusion from the mouse to the human being

28.12.2020

"MutationTaster2" is the most-cited publication of the last ten years

07.12.2020

"fiddle": an online search tool to help researchers find the matching outlet for their unpublished data

07.12.2020

One million euros for research on the brain and nutritional behavior

04.12.2020

Inclusion and Diversity in Academia: Relevance and Steps Forward

01.12.2020

How SARS-CoV-2 reaches the brain

06.11.2020

A new generation of optogenetic tools for research and medicine

05.11.2020

Surprising insights into the role of autophagy in neurons

27.10.2020

MDC research funded by NIH award

07.10.2020

Emmanuelle Charpentier honoured with the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

08.09.2020

More effective treatment of diseases through cell-based interceptive medicine

21.08.2020

Organoids and sequencing team up for ALS research

06.08.2020

Autism: How gene alteration modifies social behavior

26.06.2020

Osmotic stress identified as stimulator of cellular waste disposal

05.06.2020

Discovery of important molecular mechanism of Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease

29.05.2020

DFG approves new Transregional Collaborative Research Center for Neuromodulation

25.05.2020

Peter Hegemann receives 2020 Shaw Prize

06.05.2020

Scientists decipher further mechanism for memory formation

17.04.2020

Ion channel VRAC enhances immune response against viruses by transporting the messenger substance cGAMP from cell to cell

31.03.2020

Understanding the Formation of Nerve Cell Contacts - Volker Haucke receives 2.5 Million Euros of Funding from the European Research Council (ERC)

31.03.2020

Limbic encephalitis: autoantibodies trigger overexcitation in the brain

25.02.2020

Rachel Lippert Heads New Junior Research Group “Neurocircuit Development and Function" at DIfE

20.01.2020

Scientists Uncover a Never-Before-Seen Type of Signal Occurring in The Human Brain

27.11.2019

Funding for excellent junior clinical neuroscientists at the Charité

22.11.2019

3D maps of gene activity

20.11.2019

Two MDC researchers among top-quoted scientists worldwide

19.11.2019

First international vocation Einstein-Profile-Professorship program

06.11.2019

Fine-tuning communication: How drugs and diseases influence signals between nerve cells

23.09.2019

Autoantibodies in Pregnancy: A Cause of Behavioral Disorders in the Child?

12.09.2019

Rats play hide and seek

05.09.2019

Volker Haucke admitted to the "Academia Europaea"

27.08.2019

A new signaling pathway for mTor-dependent cell growth

22.07.2019

Decision in the German Excellence Strategy

19.07.2019

Peter Hegemann receives the Warren Alpert Prize

27.06.2019

Frank Heppner is new member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

29.05.2019

Collaborative Research Center dedicated to the study of control in addiction

29.05.2019

Honorary doctorate for Peter Hegemann

23.05.2019

Carmen Birchmeier is new member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

17.04.2019

McGill University awards Emmanuelle Charpentier

15.04.2019

Rumford Prize Awarded to Peter Hegemann

02.04.2019

A new DFG Research Unit for rare genetic diseases

27.03.2019

Honour for discover of Crispr

21.03.2019

Memory like a sieve or not

16.01.2019

Multiple sclerosis: help for cellular self-help

15.01.2019

Europe Looks to Cells for a Healthier Future

09.01.2019

Volker Haucke receives Feldberg Prize

07.01.2019

Tracking development cell by cell is ‘Breakthrough of the Year’ – Berlin-based MDC is a hot spot for such research

14.12.2018

DFG funds 13 light microscopes at universities

30.11.2018

NeuroCure at the SfN

29.11.2018

“Neurasmus: A European Master in Neuroscience: Advanced Courses and Research Training”

24.10.2018

ERC Synergy Grant awarded to project exploring playful learning

28.09.2018

NeuroCure receives further funding

25.09.2018

Shimpei Ishiyama receives Freigeist Fellowship

30.08.2018

Presynapses come in a packet – Berlin Scientists Identify the Components and Architecture of Neuronal Contact Sites

13.08.2018

A molecular switch may serve as new target point for cancer and diabetes therapies

06.06.2018

Long-term memory: HU acquires DFG research project

04.06.2018

Leibniz Prize Recipient Michael Brecht Visits Outstanding Neuroscience Institutes in Brazil

20.04.2018

Two MDC scientists receive ERC grants worth several million euros

19.04.2018

Keeping the excitement under control

04.04.2018

The appointment of Prof. Dr. Robert Gütig strengthens NeuroCure Cluster of Excellence

22.02.2018

Letter of Intent for Universities of Excellence funding line submitted along with nine full-scale applications for research clusters within the German government’s new competition

21.02.2018

Berlin Brains: Junior trifft Senior

12.02.2018

Deep transcranial brain stimulation – a new treatment approach in patients with multiple sclerosis

09.02.2018

How a mutated gene can cause high blood pressure *

05.01.2018

Volker Haucke and Dietmar Schmitz elected new Members of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) *

21.12.2017

Deep Brain Stimulation: Better Treatment for Movement Disorders *

14.12.2017

Bridging the gap in communication: researchers discover mechanism that allows rapid signal transmission between nerve cells

02.11.2017

Female scientists of the Charité share their knowledge at the Berlin Science Week 2017 *

12.10.2017

"Preis des Landes Berlin" awarded to scientists of the Charité and the BIH *

12.10.2017

Andrea Kühn receives the Dingebauer Prize

29.09.2017

Through to the final round - NeuroCure is invited to submit a funding proposal

28.09.2017

Edvard Moser becomes Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow: third Nobel Prize winner supported by Stiftung Charité *

31.08.2017

Dietmar Schmitz is new member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

29.08.2017

Berlin neuroscientists do literature *

08.08.2017

Hinweise auf veränderte Gehirnentwicklung des Ungeborenen

03.08.2017

Andrew Plested receives Heisenberg Professorship

02.08.2017

How mice babies ensure mother’s protection

25.07.2017

ERC President visits NeuroCure scientist at the Charité

29.06.2017

Volker Haucke is a new member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

29.06.2017

NeuroCure at the Long Night of the Sciences 2017

27.06.2017

Individualizing deep brain stimulation in patients with Parkinson's disease

02.06.2017

New therapeutic attack point: Scientists find off-switch for the mTor complex

02.06.2017

NeuroCure supports Soapbox Science

23.05.2017

Thomas Jentsch receives Honorary Degree of the Medical Faculty of the University of Hamburg

25.04.2017

How naked mole-rats defy lack of oxygen

20.04.2017

Volker Haucke wird mit Avanti Award für Lipidforschung ausgezeichnet

10.04.2017

A New Role for Autophagosomes in Neurodegeneration

03.04.2017

More reliably predicting what will work

23.03.2017

Thomas Jentsch receives prestigious award from the European Research Council

09.03.2017

Ulrich Dirnagl appointed first chair of the Center for Transforming Biomedical Research

20.02.2017

Ulrich Dirnagl receives award for new quality standards in biomedical research

03.02.2017

Gamma oscillations coordinate food seeking

16.01.2017

Ich glaube mich trifft der Schlag

13.01.2017

Nektar-Evolution: Quantität geht vor Qualität

09.01.2017

Explaining memory on the molecular level - Reinhart-Koselleck project for Volker Haucke

09.01.2017

Researchers from Charité report success in treating anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis

19.12.2016

New compound eases neuropathic pain from light touch

05.12.2016

Neue Erkenntnisse zum Zusammenhang zwischen stressinduzierter Hirnaktivität und Erkrankungsschwere

05.12.2016

Einstein-Zentrum für Neurowissenschaften nimmt Arbeit auf

02.12.2016

Interdisciplinary Charité laboratory awarded ERC Starting Grant

18.11.2016

Jana Marie Schwarz von der Charité und Ingo Schuch von der Humboldt-Universität gewinnen beim Forum Junge Spitzenforscher 2016

11.11.2016

Why are we ticklish?

10.11.2016

Ulrich Dirnagl receives prestigious Berliner Wissenschaftspreis

20.10.2016

How the naked mole-rat escapes inflammatory pain

10.10.2016

MRI contrast agents may accumulate in the brains of multiple sclerosis patients

06.10.2016

Christian Spahn is new member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

26.09.2016

Junior researcher receives SEED stipend of the KKNMS

22.09.2016

In Memoriam Uwe Heinemann

15.08.2016

Rapid reaction thanks to "precision protein"

09.08.2016

Matthias Endres is new member of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

13.07.2016

Designer virus acts as a molecular-level switch

12.07.2016

Nobel laureate Südhof on basic science and chances for healing

08.07.2016

A “time switch” in the brain improves sense of smell

05.07.2016

Benjamin Judkewitz receives Alfried Krupp Prize

28.06.2016

Berlin-based researchers highlight protein important for learning and memory

16.06.2016

Activation of glutamate receptors: seeing is believing

09.06.2016

The Lancet: New stem cell transplantation method may halt multiple sclerosis symptoms long-term, but therapy comes with high risks

02.06.2016

Wiretapping the senses

02.05.2016

Neuroscientists discover previously unknown function of cannabinoid receptor

18.04.2016

Benjamin Judkewitz receives Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Research Grant

06.04.2016

Brain stimulation improves ability to speak after stroke

19.02.2016

Ulrich Dirnagl receives the 2016 Thomas Willis Lecture Award

28.01.2016

James Poulet receives second grant from the European Research Council

21.01.2016

Berliner Wissenschaftler prüfen Grundmuster von Entscheidungen

18.01.2016

Muscle weakness: Berlin scientists unravel defects in rare hereditary disease myotubular myopathy

11.01.2016

Gehirnarchitektur von Wirbeltieren ist bisexuell

07.01.2016

Where Have All the Rodents Gone?

02.12.2015

Christine Heim in Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften gewählt

09.11.2015

Call for NeuroCure PhD Fellowships 2016

12.10.2015

Green waves in the brain

27.09.2015

Shigeki Watanabe wins 2015 Eppendorf/Science Prize

22.09.2015

Zwei neue Einstein-Zentren mit Charité-Beteiligung

25.08.2015

Gehirn unter Strom

17.07.2015

Wie Nervenzellen sich erinnern

01.07.2015

Andreas Heinz ist zum Mitglied der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften Leopoldina gewählt worden

01.07.2015

NeuroCure researcher at the Humboldt-Universität receives coveted award from the European Research Council

01.03.2015

Du Bois-Reymond Prize for Shigeki Watanabe

13.02.2015

Researcher at the FMP receives prestigious award from the European Research Council

11.02.2015

Nature puts the spotlight on NeuroCure researcher's advances in optics

12.01.2015

NeuroCure Visiting Fellow publishes second Nature article

09.12.2014

Nobelpreisträger als Gastforscher in Berlin

20.11.2014

Call for NeuroCure PhD Fellowships 2015

04.11.2014

Wie erzeugt unser Gehirn Temperatur-Empfindungen?

13.08.2014

Neurobiologe und Demenzforscher wird Einstein-Professor

04.06.2014

Turbocharger for nerve cells: operation of ADHS gene investigated

30.05.2014

First 3D model of a synapse

09.05.2014

FMP-Direktor Volker Haucke wird EMBO-Mitglied

08.05.2014

Charité-Professor Christian Spahn wird EMBO-Mitglied

17.04.2014

Navigationshilfe für Nervenfasern

25.03.2014

Lillie Awards for Collaborative Research to NeuroCure Visiting Fellow Eric Jorgensen

27.02.2014

Thomas Südhof wird BIH Visiting Fellow

31.01.2014

Schnell feuernde Nervenzellen recyceln schnell

15.01.2014

Interview with Einstein-Professor Dietmar Schmitz (german)

25.10.2013

Call for NeuroCure PhD Fellowships 2014

18.10.2013

The Lancet: “Gold standard” imaging study reveals no association between venous narrowing and multiple sclerosis

19.09.2013

A Brake in the Head

02.09.2013

Administering Natural Substance Spermidin Stopped Dementia

27.08.2013

Long-term memory in the cortex

04.07.2013

Like an invisible conductor

14.03.2013

Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize for Young Researchers Awarded to James Poulet

01.11.2012

New Coordinator at Cluster of Excellence NeuroCure

31.10.2012

Dementia research: Agnes Flöel receives the 2012 Pette Prize of the DGN

26.10.2012

NeuroCure starts application process for PhD program

19.10.2012

NeuroCure moves into new training and research centre

30.07.2012

A Good Network – Important for Brain Activity

19.06.2012

Information flow in the brain is not a “one-way street”

15.06.2012

Success for neuroscience research in Berlin

03.05.2012

Of Mice and Men

04.04.2012

Research Prize for Berlin Young Investigator

29.02.2012

Using 7-T brain MRI Charité and MDC researchers show: Multiple sclerosis more destructive than previously thought

27.02.2012

Professor Michael Brecht receives Liebniz Prize 2012

27.02.2012

How the brain communicates

24.02.2012

Accelerated Search for Active Agents to Treat Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s

16.01.2012

Sugar for the Brain

16.12.2011

When nerve cells stop speaking

23.11.2011

Discovery of a new muscle repair gene

07.11.2011

NeuroCure researchers awarded prestigious EU grant

01.11.2011

Christian Otte appointed Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at NYU

11.10.2011

New Findings Concerning Function of the Hippocampus

05.08.2011

Small molecules hit it big - new therapeutic approaches against viruses, bacteria, and cancer

02.08.2011

And fire! - How nerve cells are kept up to speed

18.07.2011

New hope fighting immune diseases

08.07.2011

Another success in health research for Berlin

26.05.2011

Measuring the world by the brain – Scientists identify circuits with which rats map the environment

23.05.2011

Welt-MS-Tag: Einladung zum Pressegespräch

13.05.2011

Reading the fine print of perception

25.03.2011

Berlin neuroscientists decode crucial component in brain signal processing

14.03.2011

Dietmar Schmitz Berlins erster Einstein Professor

22.10.2010

Berlin neuroscientist excellent again

15.01.2010

Charité – Forscher: Fünf Millionen Euro von der EU

25.09.2009

Signal für die medizinische Ausbildung von morgen

17.06.2009

NeuroCure – eine ausgezeichnete Idee

14.04.2009

Exzellenzcluster NeuroCure im Aufwind

15.10.2008

Hochdotierte Forschungsförderung der EU geht an Michael Brecht

24.04.2008

Ausgezeichnet: der Charité-Studiengang Medical Neurosciences

19.10.2007

Großer Erfolg für Berliner Neurowissenschaftler