Dr. Melania Capasso, scientist at the DZNE Bonn, explains in a video how overactive immune cells in the aging brain release inflammatory proteins - and therefore contribute to the progression of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's.
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The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 builds tiny droplets to multiply effectively inside infected cells. This phenomenon may offer starting points for drug development. Researchers at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) and the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Biophysical Chemistry report on this in the journal “Nature Communications”.
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The health care, industry and social sectors are urgently struggling with the question of how to support people with dementia and carers effectively as well as how and what kind of technology can help with…
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The analysis of Clarivate is based on tens of thousands of publications in scientific journals that appeared between January 2009 and December 2019. Only those “papers” were considered that belong to the top…
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Prof. Markus Zweckstetter from the Göttingen site of the DZNE will receive 500,000 Euros from the Volkswagen Stiftung for a research project in which he will investigate the origin of the genetic code.
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The Director of Population Health Research, and head of the Rhineland Study, was recently accepted as a new member of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina.
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The Clinical Research Platform (CRP) at the Centre for Clinical Research in Bonn supports and coordinates the multi-site studies of the DZNE.
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In the prestigious science journal “Nature”, numerous experts from all over Europe draw a roadmap leading to a medicine that enables us to better understand cellular processes in the human body and thus to…
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Besuch vom Staatssekretär
Thomas Rachel, Parlamentarischer Staatssekretär bei der Bundesministerin für Bildung und Forschung hat auf Einladung des DZNE am Donnerstag, 27.08.2020 den Standort Bonn besucht.
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Prof. Emrah Düzel, together with his working group and experts from the University Medical Center Magdeburg, has developed a method to digitally evaluate and improve the image quality of MRI images as part…
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Mitochondria are the power plants of cells and are involved in Alzheimer's disease. Jun. Prof. Dr. Michela Deleidi and her research team have now investigated this relationship in greater detail: The…
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The Hans and Ilse Breuer Foundation announces doctoral scholarships for 2021 - exclusively at the DZNE. Funding is available for doctoral projects that are carried out at one of our ten sites.
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Interview mit Prof. Gasser zum Welt-Parkinson-Tag: „Klären Sie so frühzeitig wie möglich die Symptome ab“
Der Parkinson-Wissenschaftler Prof. Thomas Gasser über die Vorboten der Krankheit, die Bedeutung der Diagnose für Patienten und Angehörige und mögliche neue Therapieansätze.
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Zum Welt-Parkinson-Tag 2020
Zum Welt-Parkinson-Tag 2020: Einblicke in die Erforschung der Parkinson-Erkrankung am DZNE.
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With a generous donation of 5000€ the association "ALS-Alle Lieben Schmidt e. V." supports the research of the DZNE in the field of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) of Patrick Weydt.
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The DZNE has start withed a Career Center at the beginning of 2020 in order to better support postdocs and doctoral students in the final phase of their doctoral studies in questions of career planning and…
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Scientist Dr. Dragomir Milovanovic, Group Leader at the DZNE Berlin, was awarded the 2020 Whitman Center Early Career Investigator Award from Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL).
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Fighting common diseases together: Clinically oriented research on diabetes, cancer and neurodegenerative diseases at the 2nd joint DZG symposium in Dresden
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DZNE researchers study the zebrafish in search of new approaches against Alzheimer’s disease. Their latest results are published in PLOS Biology.
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With this award, the Akademie der Wissenschaften in Hamburg (Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg) honours Prof. Gärtner's groundbreaking work in the field of rare congenital neurometabolic diseases…
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The annual science festival of the BMBF and the German Physical Society – termed „Highlights of Physics“– will be coming to Bonn this year on Sept. 16 – 21th, with the University of Bonn as local…
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Dr. Caghan Kizil, researcher at the DZNE site in Dresden and at the Centre for Regenerative Therapies at the TU Dresden (CRTD), is involved in a scientific study that proves the relevance of glial cells for…
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The prize honours Prof. Drzezgas' research in the field of molecular and multimodal imaging in neurodegeneration. The Kuhl-Lassen Award is the highest award of SNMMI's Brain Imaging Council.
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Journalist Julia Köppe is sure: She doesn't want to know in advance whether she has an Alzheimer's risk. But why are there people who are interested in Alzheimer's although they know that the disease cannot…
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Thomas Gasser, head of clinical research at the DZNE in Tübingen and former site speaker, was recently accepted as a new academician of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina together with other…
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Anne Maass is the first junior research group leader at the DZNE site in Magdeburg. In March, she started to build up her working group "Multimodal Neuroimaging" there. We talked to her about her start as a…
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To no longer recognize beloved people or to lose valuable memories - hardly any other sign of aging is as frightening to people as it is to oblivion. Researchers are trying to elucidate the molecular causes…
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Thomas Wolbers is conducting research at the DZNE in Magdeburg on the cognition of old age and in particular on spatial orientation using VR glasses. Podcaster Holger Klein visited him in Magdeburg and…
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Founding Director of the DZNE, Pierluigi Nicotera, talks about what has been achieved in the 10 years of the Center’s existence, about painful setbacks suffered – and about the questions he most frequently…
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Michel Grothe was awarded for his abstract "In-Vivo Basal Forebrain Atrophy and Cortical Cholinergic Depletion are interrelated and predict cognitive deficits in Parkinson’s Disease". As an awardee, he gave…
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Hot off the press: The first issue of the (German only) DZG magazine. To communicate modern medical research vividly and to classify new results - with this goal the German Centres for Health Research (DZG)…
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In a joint project, in which the DZNE site in Witten is involved, research is being carried out until March 2021 into how sleep problems in people with dementia can be reduced.
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The first was Holger Stahlknecht, Minister of the Interior of Saxony-Anhalt and since November 2018 Chairman of the CDU Saxony-Anhalt. Dr. Petra Sitte also informed herself about the work of the DZNE…
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On Monday, February 11th, 2019, three new "Clinical Study Rooms" were officially opened in the research building of the DZNE in Tübingen. So far, participants of the current nine DZNE studies have been…
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Since mid-2018 he has been running the Digital Health Podcast Zweikörperproblem together with Markus Gennat and Jan Ehlers. Discussions will focus on how digitisation, technologies and innovations affect the…
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On Tuesday February 12th, 2019, the three German Centers for Health Research (Deutsche Zentren der Gesundheitsforschung, DZGs) located in Dresden held their first joint symposium: The Paul Langerhans…
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On 15 February Isabell Pfeiffer-Poensgen, Minister for Culture and Science in NRW, visited the DZNE on the Venusberg together with Annette Storsberg, State Secretary in the Minister for Culture and Science…
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On 9 February, the Hertie Foundation awarded Bruno Schmidt and his association "ALS - Alle Lieben Schmidt e.V." the Hertie Prize for commitment and self-help amounting to 7,500 euros. The award ceremony took…
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About 8,000 people in Germany are affected by the nervous disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The DZNE and Bonn University Hospital invite experts, patients and other interested parties to an…
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Dr. Sabina Tahirovic from the DZNE site in Munich received funding from the Alzheimer Forschung Initiative e. V. (AFI), at a ceremony in Wiesbaden on January 18th, 2019. AFI awarded a grant of 120,000 euros.…
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The DZNE building in Bonn is awarded the “Gold certification” of the "Sustainable Building Rating System for Federal Buildings" (BNB). This is the first laboratory building in Germany that is bestowed with…
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The Helmholtz Horizons Symposium, hosted by the President of the Association, highlights scientific breakthroughs of Helmholtz Association’s established researchers.
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The theme of this year's event was: "Beziehungsweise(n)… Demenz – Pflege und Forschung im Wandel". The focus was on the design of relationships with and by people with dementia.
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Redaktionstipp: Schreiben war schon immer mein Ding
Unser Magdeburger Forscher Martin Riemer hat einen Roman mit dem Titel „Post Mortem“ geschrieben. Wie kam es dazu? Das hat er dem Portal Wissenschaftskommunikation.de erzählt.
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At this year's Alzheimer's Association Internal Conference (AAIC), scientists from the DZNE sites presented information on their current results and latest findings by giving lectures at various symposia or…
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In the fourth round of the Excellence Initiative, our university cooperation partners successfully performed. These clusters of excellence, with the participation of the DZNE, received a new funding…
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A great performance! In the context of the Linnicher Spendenlauf on 22 September, the great donation amount of over 44,000 euros was run. In four hours a total of 22,278 laps were made on the sports field…
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Today Nicolas G. Bazan, M.D., was honoured at the DZNE in Bonn in the context of the "DZNE Award Lecture". The DZNE thus honours scientists who have made outstanding contributions in the field of…
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Karl Josef Laumann (CDU), Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, today took a close look at the research of the DZNE at our site on the Venusberg in Bonn.
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As a joined event of the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HiH), the Centre for Integrative Neurosciences (CiN), and the DZNE in Tübingen, the "Neuroscience Campus Get Together" was taking place…
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No less than five young scientists from three DZNE sites were selected for the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting that was held June 24-29, 2018. One of these five young talents is Alexandra Michurina, PhD…
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Dr. Jakob Kreye, Postdoc at the AG Autoimmune Encephalopathies at the DZNE Berlin, has won the 2018 PhD prize of the Berliner Gesellschaft für Psychiatrie und Neurologie (BGPN).
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Redaktionstipp: Gehirne sind zum Gehen da
Als Lektüre empfehlen wir das Gespräch mit Prof. Gerd Kempermann in der aktuellen Sonderausgabe Wandern des Philosophie Magazins.
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Neue Ansätze für die Vorbeugung und Therapie der Alzheimer-Erkrankung könnten sich aus der Analyse von Gendaten ergeben. Doch deren Auswertung bedarf enormer Rechenpower. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht…
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An agile and reversible walker with which you can even dance - and which still avoids falls: Prof. Notger Müller, group leader at the DZNE, wants to develop this within the next two years.
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At Cebit, the Federal Minister of Education and Research talked to Prof. Joachim Schultze, genome researcher at the DZNE, about the joint project with HPE.
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In two studies, Gaia Tavosanis and fellow researchers at the DZNE have looked on mechanisms governing growth of neurons in fruit flies. The results which have been published in “Current Biology” and “Cell…
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What can you do to stay mentally and physically fit into old age? This and other questions were addressed by the DZNE at Bonner Wissenschaftsnacht (Bonn Science Night) 2018.
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On Friday, 16th of February 2018, Dr. Martin Rosemann, SPD member of the Bundestag and representative of the constituency Tübingen-Hechingen, visited the DZNE Tübingen to learn about the research activities…
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The Paul Foundation generously supports Prof. Donato Di Monte’s laboratory at the DZNE in Bonn. Research carried out by Prof. Di Monte’s group focuses on molecular mechanisms of neuronal pathology in…
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Dr. Caghan Kizil, researcher at the DZNE site in Dresden and at the Centre for Regenerative Therapies at the TU Dresden (CRTD), is involved in a scientific study that proves the relevance of glial cells for epileptic seizures and shows potential for new therapies. To the CRTD's press release...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel and NRW Science Minister Svenja Schulze opened the new DZNE building in Bonn
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