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. …

In a laboratory study, DZNE researchers have found that "alpha-synuclein", a protein involved in Parkinson's disease, is capable of travelling from the brain to the stomach using the vagus nerve as a conduit.

DZNE researchers have found that certain brain cells interact in a detrimental way during stroke. Harmful electrical discharges are thereby amplified.

Prof. Stefan Remy will receive the “Consolidator Grant” from the European Research Council (ERC). Remy plans to use the prize money on decoding single neuron function during behavior in mice.

Little is known about the role of the brain‘s immune system in Alzheimer's disease. DZNE researchers have now found an early immune response in individuals with a genetic predisposition to Alzheimer’s.

DZNE researchers have identified a neural pathway that feeds speed information directly into the brain’s navigation system. They report on this in “Nature Neuroscience”.