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Einstein Professor Kallol Ray and Einstein Visiting Fellow Wonwoo Nam will bring together international coordination chemistry researchers in Berlin-Adlershof from 4 to 6 July. Our Managing Director Thorsten Wilhelmy will deliver the welcome address.

To what extent are results from progression-free survival in cancer trials biased by informative censoring and trial design? As a guest of the Einstein Circle Causal Inference from Observational Health Data, Miquel Serra-Burriel will give a lecture at the BIH in English. Registration (for digital or on-site participation) is required.

AI generated tuft dendrites

New research led by Matthew Larkum, with vital contributions from former Einstein Visiting Fellow Dieter Jaeger, reveals how tuft dendrites in the frontal motor cortex enable flexible learning. Discover this groundbreaking study now published in Science.

The €350,000 "Einstein Foundation Award for Promoting Quality in Research" is now open for its sixth round! Until 30 April, researchers at all career stages, as well as institutions and initiatives, are invited to apply or nominate candidates who contribute to strengthening the rigor, robustness, and transparency of research.

Portrait Fatma Deniz

A warm welcome to Prof. Dr. Fatma Deniz! The President of TU Berlin officially took up her position on the Foundation Council of the Einstein Foundation Berlin on 1 April 2026. She succeeds the President of FU Berlin, Prof. Günter M. Ziegler, to whom we extend our heartfelt thanks for his many years of dedication and commitment!

Porträt Tarik Abou-Chadi

Congratulations to Einstein BUA/Oxford Visiting Fellow Tarik Abou-Chadi on his new position! The political scientist from Oxford will establish a new research unit on democracy at the WZB starting in January 2027.

Portrait Max Sprang

#AskDifferent 51 - In this episode of AskDifferent, bioinformatician and Einstein Foundation Early Career Awardee Maximilian Sprang takes us into the hidden world of errors in genomic data. Why do sequencing studies sometimes produce impressive-looking results that later fail to replicate? What happens when tiny technical glitches masquerade as biological discoveries - and what does that mean for patients and precision medicine? Sprang explains how his team detects and even deliberately introduces errors to understand them better, improve software tools, and make genomic research more reliable without throwing "messy" data away. *Please note: the informational insert is AI-generated*

On 14 March 2026, we celebrated science and the laureates of the 2025 Einstein Foundation Award at the Bode Museum in Berlin. Join us for two minutes - watch the video highlights on YouTube here.

Brain organoids held in a dish by two hands wearing blue laboratory gloves

Detecting and treating disease before symptoms appear: the Einstein Center for Early Disease Interception has officially opened. Backed by six million euros from the Einstein Foundation, the new center brings together leading institutions across Berlin.

On Albert Einstein's birthday, we bestowed the Einstein Foundation Award at the Bode-Museum Berlin. Winners, jury members, and foundation leadership shared why the award is truly unique. Watch the short statements on YouTube!

Ants push a bolder uphill

The Berlin University Alliance invites you to the conference "Joint Research for Better Futures," (23 to 25 March). The event will foster new interdisciplinary collaborations and explore shared pathways towards a more sustainable future.

Group photo with the winners of the Einstein Foundation Award on stage

On 14 March, the Einstein Foundation Awards were presented in a festive ceremony. Click here to view the photo gallery.