Press releases

Prof. Oliver Brüstle and his team use neurons to study disease etiology

DZNE scientists and their US colleagues have received US$1.5 million in funding to research learning and memory using computer models

Bonn, Oct 27^th, 2011. Scientists from Bonn have discovered a possible mechanism of Alzheimer disease

For a nerve cell to function properly, each protein must be in the right place. The tau protein, for example, has to be located in the axons - the long projections of nerve…

Scientists identify an RNA molecule as a potential target for new Alzheimer's therapies

Scientists from the DZNE and University of Bonn have discovered that a modification of the protein amyloid beta causes it to aggregate and form plaques – a typical feature of Alzheimer's disease

Bonn/Tübingen, September15^th 2011. Dr. Michela Deleidi, a scientist in Prof. Thomas Gasser’s research group at the DZNE site Tübingen and the Hertie Institute for Brain Research, received a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers. With the award, she will…

The Centres of Excellence in Neurodegeneration Research (CoEN) -initiative, an international funding partnership, announces investment in eight exciting new international research projects which will address key issues in neurodegenerative disease research.

A joint research project on synaptic signal transmission will be initialized with a one-day symposium entitled "Synaptic Signals" on October 21^st in Bonn. The aim of the project is to gain a better understanding of synaptic function of the hippocampal neurons. The project…