The environment at the Max Planck institutes is both open and stimulating – and international: with 85 institutes and ...

To find the cause of the "dessert stomach", the researchers investigated the reaction of mice to sugar and found that completely satiated mice still ate desserts. Investigations of the brain showed ...

Utrophin increase in muscle cells after transcriptional adaptation normalises cell function in Duchenne muscular dystrophy ...

The Max Planck Society aims to maintain consistently high standards in gender equality work while considering professional ...

Meet the pioneering female directors of 2024, setting remarkable examples and breaking barriers in leadership and ...

The study has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of brain activity. Using computer simulations, the study shows ...

What unites them all is their passion for research. Over the past year, the Max Planck Society has once again increased the proportion of women in leadership positions, welcoming 12 new female ...

In nine out of ten patients with type 2 diabetes, severe obesity, known as adiposity, leads to diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is ...

The retina is an outgrowth of the brain and shares the same genetics, making it an easily accessible way for scientists to study brain disorders. In a previous study, scientists at the Max Planck ...

Born 1969. Studies in chemistry at the University of Konstanz with a scholarship by the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” 1990–1994, Diploma 1994. PhD thesis at the University of Bochum / ...