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Dr James Poulet, neuroscientist at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) was awarded the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Young Academics Prize. The award endowed with 60,000 Euro is given in recognition of Poulet's research regarding the brain's influence on behaviour. Moreover, his work on the activity of certain brain regions...more

The Institute of Coastal Research at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht has produced two excellent doctoral theses: The Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker (Association of German Chemists) awarded Dr Mechthild Grebe the A.M.S.EI. prize, endowed with 1,500 Euro, for her analysis of a protein in the blood of seals. Dr Oliver Krüger was awarded the...more

The managing director of the KIT Institute of Nanotechnology, Prof. Horst Hahn, was awarded the Robert Franklin Mehl Award. The award honours outstanding insights in the field of materials science, which are considered milestones in the individual sub-disciplines. Since its first bestowal in 1922, Hahn is only the sixth German recipient of the...more

At present, the Helmholtz Association is much influenced by POF, programme-oriented funding. Three of our six research fields are in the process of being assessed by well-respected experts from home and abroad and are examined with regards to the scientific quality and strategic relevance of their research programmes. These are the research fields...more

On 28 February, Saxony's Minister-President Stanislaw Tillich and Dr Peter Michel, Head of Radiation Source ELBE at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), launched the new ELBE with a joint push of the button. Yet in contrast to its namesake, the river, ELBE does not move water but electrons: it is a so-called "Electron Linear...more