2024
February
For the second time in a row, the MMPU receives a seminar grant from the Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim to support the Public MMPU Research Days 2024. We are very grateful.
2023
November
Julio Saez Rodriguez and colleagues receive a prestigious ERC Synergy Grant to study host-microbiome interaction in the gut. The CartoHostBug project receives 10 Mio Euro to create “maps” of the microbial composition and molecular status of human cells at spatially defined locations.
July
Wolfgang Huber is among 69 life scientists elected to membership of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). Recognised for their contributions to and leadership within the scientific community, they join the organisation’s community of more than 2,000 leading life scientists.
September
The European Bioconductor Conference takes place in September 2023 in Ghent, Belgium, and is co-organised by Wolfgang Huber and colleagues from the Ghent University. The event brings together researchers, developers and users from the Bioconductor Community.
June
Wolfgang Huber is organizing the 19th edition of the summer school CSAMA 2023, intended for researchers who are interested in making the step from a user of bioinformatics software towards adapting or developing their own analysis workflows.
24 February
The MMPU receives a seminar grant from the Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim to support the Public MMPU Research Days 2023. Thank you very much, HLSA!
2022
06 April
Matthias Hentze receives the Biochemical Society’s Centenary Award for his discoveries in RNA biology. Congratulations Matthias, congratulations to the Hentze team!
20 March
Judith Zaugg receives ERC Consolidator Grant to study interactions between healthy and cancer cells in the human bone marrow. Congratulations Judith, congrats to the Zaugg group and the MMPU group Stem Cell-Niche Networks!
01 January
The MMPU is delighted to announce Wolfgang Huber as new co-director of the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit, taking over this role from Jan Korbel. Wolfgang started in his new role on 1 January 2022.
Wolfgang joined EMBL in 2004 as a group leader at EMBL-EBI, in 2009 switched to the then newly founded Genome Biology unit in Heidelberg and became EMBL senior scientist in 2011. His interests lie in computational biology and statistical bioinformatics. In 2016, he and his clinician-scientist colleague Sascha Dietrich joined the MMPU with the group Systems Medicine for Cancer Drugs. Their research aims at understanding intra- and inter-patient heterogeneity of response to anti-cancer drugs and using that to improve therapies.
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His expertise in data science complements that of the MMPU co-directors Matthias Hentze and Andreas Kulozik.
The MMPU warmly thanks Jan Korbel for his four years as co-director of the MMPU. He stepped down from this role at the end of 2021 to enable him to take on additional responsibilities that he has recently accepted. He has strengthened the MMPU with his data science expertise and continues to do so in his role as joint group leader together with Andreas Kulozik of the MMPU group Molecular Pediatric Oncology.
The MMPU warmly thanks Jan and Wolfgang.
ABOUT the MMPU: The Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit is a partnership on translational medicine between EMBL and the Heidelberg University Hospital. It has eight research groups with the special set up that each group is headed by at least two group leaders, one from EMBL, and one from the University Hospital, combining expertise in basic science, technology development, biomedical research and clinical translation. The groups use latest experimental and data science technologies to dig into challenging questions in areas including heart and kidney diseases, chronic pain, childhood and adult cancers, blood and iron disorders. With more than 20 nationalities, the MMPU is international and diverse. Over half of its 120 members are women. Training is an important aspect of the MMPU, and it offers training opportunities at all career stages from students, postdocs to established researchers.
The MMPU started 20 years ago with one research group. It has grown to eight in 2021 and welcomes new groups to join.
2021
09 December
The MMPU is very proud of its second MMPU group leader after Matthias Hentze in 2000 to receive the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2022. Congratulations Eileen Furlong!
15 September
Machine learning and multidisciplinary collaboration map ‘constellations’ of molecules, which may help customise medical treatments for blood cancer
2020
23 January
Lifetime Achievement Award for Matthias Hentze. MMPU Co – Director honoured by the international RNA Society.
2019
02 April 2019 EMBL etc. Lab Matters
How EMBL partnerships promote collaboration. Read this article about the EMBL Partnership Programme.
29 April 2019 EMBL NEWS
A newly developed 3D microscope visualises fast biological processes better than ever.
Constructing the new microscope was an interdisciplinary effort. The researchers within the two EMBL groups and their collaborators have backgrounds in various scientific fields: the multidisciplinary team comprised physicists, engineers, computer scientists, biologists and a pediatric cardiologist.
2018
October 2018 Press Release EMBL
Ageing is visible in the way cells use glucose. A collaboration between clinicians, experimentalists and computational scientists in the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) unveil the molecular mechanisms of agei