Press releases

Heiko Braak, senior professor at Ulm University, will receive this year’s “Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize”, which is endowed with 60,000 Euros. The Piepenbrock Group and the DZNE thereby honor Braak’s groundbreaking research on Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson’s disease.

Does fasting slow down the aging process? At least in mice, anti-aging effects are limited. This is the conclusion of a study by DZNE researchers.

The DZNE heads the research project “Supporting elderly people with cognitive impairment during and after hospital stays – Intersectoral Care Management, which funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with 1.7 million Euros.

„Memory-Driven Computing“: At the “Discover Conference” in Las Vegas DZNE scientists presented first results of a collaboration with Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

DZNE scientists have discovered a molecular mechanism that may help in the search for effective treatments of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). Their study focusses on a protein called PERK.

Epigenetics may open new therapeutic avenues. DZNE scientists report on this in the journal PNAS.

The diet influences epigenetic patterns in the genome. DZNE Researchers report on this in journal “Molecular Psychiatry”.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise Cooperates with the DZNE – Employs Memory-Driven Computing in Brain Research

Today, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and NRW Science Minister Svenja Schulze inaugurated the new building of the DZNE in Bonn and took the opportunity to learn about current research projects.

Scientists from BfArM and the DZNE will be working together and in cooperation with the statutory health insurance company Techniker Krankenkasse to investigate the influence of pharmacogenetic factors on the effectiveness and safety of drug therapies.