Research in Germany

Germany is a top destination for PhD students, postdocs, and senior scientists. The website "Research in Germany" helps you to find your way to Germany, to seek for PhD positions, research jobs or funding opportunities. It describes the German research landscape and helps you plan your career and life in Germany. Welcome to Germany - the Land of Ideas!

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Why Germany

There are many good reasons for doing research in Germany. It is one of the most innovative, stable and well endowed research nations and its universities and research institutions are among the best in the world. Values like freedom and diversity as well as social and ecological responsibility are considered important to ensure knowledge gain and societal progress.

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Here you will find a selection of the latest R&D news from German universities, non-university research institutes and industrial research facilities.

In the clinical study, blood and bone marrow samples were taken from patients with multiple myeloma and analysed for certain biomarkers (symbolic image)..

Biomarkers identified for successful treatment of bone marrow tumours

CAR T cell therapy has proven effective in treating various haematological cancers. However, not all patients respond equally well to treatment. In a recent clinical study, researchers from the University of Leipzig Medical Center and the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology identified several biomarkers that are associated with the response to CAR T cell therapy in multiple myeloma, a malignant tumour disease in the bone marrow. The findings have been published in the prestigious journal Nature Cancer.

Apr 26, 2024, 2:40:13 PM

Rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta) in the animal husbandry at the German Primate Center.

The right frame determines the movement

Knowledge of spatial reference systems is necessary for the control of neuroprostheses

Apr 26, 2024, 2:24:31 PM

Certain features of modern buildings seem to cause disadvantages for health, as they prevent contact with the multitude of microbes in the natural environment.

How buildings influence the microbiome and thus human health

Renowned international researchers, led by Kiel Life Science Spokesperson Professor Thomas Bosch from Kiel University, describe a completely new dimension of microbiome research and point to the previously little-studied effects of modern buildings on microbial colonisation.

Apr 26, 2024, 2:18:25 PM

Professor Andreas Schlitzer from LIMES at the University of Bonn is studying immune cells together with his working group.

How the Immune System Learns from Harmless Particles

Our lungs are bombarded by all manner of different particles every single day. Whilst some are perfectly safe for us, others—known as pathogens—have the potential to make us ill. The immune system trains its response whenever it encounters such a pathogen. Yet researchers at the University of Bonn have now shown that even harmless particles help to improve the immune response and have published their results in the journal “Nature Immunology.”

Apr 26, 2024, 1:00:00 PM

Javier Mateos (left), Tim Schulte and Tobias Ritter discuss their project in the lab.

Safer alternative for an explosive reaction

The chemical industry has been using a reaction with explosive chemicals for over 100 years - now Mülheim scientists have discovered a safer alternative. The Ritter Group of the Max Planck Institut für Kohlenforschung in Mülheim/Ruhr has recently published an exciting paper about Aryldiazonium with “Science”.

Apr 26, 2024, 9:38:56 AM

Fragment of a leaf point from Barleben-Adamsee.

„Living tins“ of the Stone Age. Finds of Ice Age turtle shell fragments from Barleben-Adamsee, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

The numerous gravel pits in the middle Elbe valley near Magdeburg (Germany) have already yielded many outstanding archaeological finds from the period between the Middle Upper Pleistocene (Weichselian Glacial) and modern times. Particularly for the Pleistocene, the deep soundings into otherwise thickly covered layers constantly offer surprising insights and findings. In the Barleben-Adamsee gravel pit, in addition to flint tools, it was now possible to recover five turtle shell fragments that were around 42,000 to 50,000 years old. The turtles could have been easy-to-transport food reserves of early humans.

Apr 25, 2024, 11:02:53 PM