Research News
Detecting Cancer Cells During Surgery
Prof. Jürgen Mlynek (left), President of the Helmholtz Association, and Prof. Andreas Schlüter (2nd from left), Secretary General of the Stifterverband Association for the Promotion of Science and Humanities in Germany, congratulate the awardees Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos (2nd from right), Helmholtz Zentrum München, and Prof. Gooitzen Michell van Dam (right), University Medical Center Groningen. Photo: Helmholtz/FesselerIn the event of cancer surgery, the surgeons have to remove the cancer tissue as completely as possible without cutting away too much of the healthy tissue. This is a difficult task, for which they could only rely on their own eyes so far. Now researchers from the Helmholtz Zentrum München and the University Medical Center Groningen have developed an innovative imaging procedure by which even the tiniest amounts of cancer tissue can be detected during surgery.
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Washing Away Alzheimer's? A Vision for the Future
In spite of remarkable progress in researching the Alzheimer's disease, to this day there is no effective treatment targeting the cause. A main characteristic of the disease are accretions, so-called plaques, composed of the protein amyloid beta, which are found posthumously in the brain of Alzheimer's patients. How about it then, if the formation...more
GFZ Researchers Build Water Monitoring in Kyrgyzstan
Water often is a scarce resource in Central Asia. Therefore it is all the more important to systematically gather data on the availability and use of water in order to forecast shortages and to develop solutions for future water management. However, the operation of hydrometeorology stations is extremely costly in particular in those remote high...more
Journalists Tour Through Health Research
This year's journalists tour through the Helmholtz Health Centres included, amongst many other topics, the gene analysis centre and the bio bank in Munich, long-term studies on allergies and water contaminated with arsenic in Leipzig and tumour research on mice in Brunswick. For about one week at the end of September, thirteen European science...more
100 Helmholtz Management Academy Alumni Celebrate Their Graduation
100 young next generation managers celebrated their graduation from the Helmholtz Academy in a festive event during which they received their certificates. On 29 September 2011, Prof. Jürgen Mlynek, President of the Helmholtz Association, presented the alumni of the third and fourth year with their diplomas. "The Helmholtz Academy is an...more
Helmholtz International
On this special page, we report news from the Helmholtz offices in Brussels, Moscow and Beijing several times a year. Specific focus is on cooperation and partnership ventures of the Helmholtz Association in Russia, China and the EU as well as on select international research policy news.more
