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Prof. Judith E Allen, University of Manchester

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The DBM welcomes Prof. Judith E. Allen as new Scientific Advisory Board Member for the Immunology Focal Area

The "Koordinationsgremium Medizin" / KOG has elected Prof. Judith E. Allen to the DBM Scientific Advisory Board in July 2019. She is succeeding Prof. Brigitta Stockinger, who rotated off our Board afer nine years. Judi Allen has a B.Sc.…
Biopolar Disorder

The Cichon group and members of the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium have dioscovered 20 new loci associated with bipolar disorder

These GWAS study coordinated by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium identified nine gene sets that provide potential biological mechanisms for bipolar disorder and that address key clinical questions The study was recently publisehd in…
Neurons in the Amygdala, image: Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research

Jan Gründemann and FMI's Lüthi lab investigated the activity of mouse basal amygdala neurons during different behavioural tasks

Jan Gründemann and researches of the laboratory of Andreas Lüthi at the Friederich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Sciences (FMI) have shown that two ensembles of neurons display orthogonal activity during exploratory and nonexploratory…
European Research Council

The European Research Council awards Nicola Aceto a Proof of Concept Grant

With the ERC Proof of Concept Grant, the Aceto lab will furhter develop small molecule inhibitors of circulating tumor cell clusters.
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A team of researchers led by Momo Bentires-Alj discoverd how stress hormones promote breast cancer metastasis

The researchers from the Bentires lab elucidated the molecular mechanisms by which stress hormones increase metastasis formation in breast cancer and further revealed that synthetic derivatives of these stress hormones, which are…