DZNE and Orion Corporation have agreed to start a strategic collaboration. They want to identify novel drug targets and develop treatments for neurodegenerative disorders.

Scientific results of the DZNE-led study "Dementia Networks in Germany (DemNet-D)" were considered in a new German law to strengthen health care for people with dementia. This law enables statutory and private care insurance to support regional and…

High ranking representatives of politics and science inaugurated the new building for the DZNE on the grounds of the University Clinic Tübingen on January 27.

A laboratory study indicates that the main protein involved in Parkinson’s disease pathology does not behave as a ‘prion’ when overexpressed. Researchers led by Prof. Donato Di Monte report on this in the journal “BRAIN”.

So-called “Imaging techniques” are essential for understanding memory formation and cognition and the development of new therapies against brain diseases. The DZNE is now focusing its nationwide expertise in the field under the umbrella of the “National…

A DZNE study supports the hypothesis that memories are encoded with the help of chemical labels on the DNA. The findings are reported in „Nature Neuroscience“.

The molecular biologist Frank Bradke, group leader at the DZNE and professor for neurobiology at the University of Bonn, will be awarded the “Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize”, which is endowed with 2.5 million euros.

This morning, Saxony-Anhalt’s Minister of Science Hartmut Möllring inaugurated the new MR-PET device at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases, site Magdeburg. The MR-PET device has opened up a whole new range of possibilities for dementia research and…

Specific forms of epilepsy may manifest as early as in the first weeks of life. A new laboratory study shows that a preventive therapeutic strategy can be successful if it is applied within a time window critical to brain development.

The neurologist Michela Deleidi was successful in her application for a “Helmholtz Young Investigators Group”, after going through a competitive selection procedure. She will receive approximately 1.25 million Euros over the next five years to develop her…