Eleftheria Zeggini, ITG

Awards & Grants, Computational Health, ITG,

Eleftheria Zeggini Receives FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027

Prof. Eleftheria Zeggini has been awarded the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027 for her pioneering contributions to human genomics and the translation of large-scale genetic discoveries into biological and clinical insights, alongside her…

KI-gestützte Analyse von Zellmembranen

AI, Computational Health, AIH, IML,

Weeks of Work in a Few Hours: AI Tool Reads Cell Membranes

Cell membranes and the proteins within them control many vital processes and play a key role in health and disease. But studying them in 3D images of cells has so far meant slow, manual work. A team from Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of…

Dancing Protein

Awards & Grants, Computational Health, ICB, Molecular Targets and Therapeutics, STB,

Reid Alderson Receives ERC Starting Grant for Protein-DANCE

Dr. Reid Alderson from the Institute of Structural Biology and the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Through the Protein-DANCE project, he will develop a new…

Brain with neural Laptop

AI, Awards & Grants, Computational Health, HCA,

Marcel Binz Receives ERC Starting Grant for MIDAS

Dr. Marcel Binz from the Institute for Human-Centered AI at Helmholtz Munich has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Through the MIDAS project, he will develop large-scale computational models designed to simulate,…

Proteinbausteine mit synthetischen Proteinstrukturen als RNA-Transporter werden mithilfe generativer KI entworfen_Helles Bild

AI, New Research Findings, Stem Cells, IDG, ISF,

AI-Designed Proteins Enable a New Generation of RNA Transporters

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed Synthetic Transfer Vehicles (STVs), an entirely new class of RNA transporters. To do so, they combined naturally occurring protein building blocks with…

Closeup timelapse of layered muscle fibers diminishing over time illustrating severe muscle atrophy in cancer cachexia.

New Research Findings, Diabetes, IDC,

Cancer Cachexia: How a Tumor Protein Drives Wasting in the Body

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Heidelberg Faculty of Medicine at Heidelberg University, the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have identified a previously unknown mechanism that can drive…