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An article co-published by Verena Haage, Helmut Kettenmann, Einstein Visiting Fellow David Gutmann and others in Nature is among the journal's ten most downloaded neuroscience papers in 2019.

With its establishment of four new professorships, the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF) is bringing together the most diverse disciplines and taking further steps to advance digitalization research in Berlin. The new appointments are conducting research in areas such as computer-assisted medicine, changes in the world of work, and biomedical imaging techniques.

New impulse for digitalization research: Berlin's universities have started the new winter semester with five additional professorships at the Einstein Center Digital Future (ECDF).

The DW documentary "Ai Weiwei Drifting" initially aimed to showcase Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's work at Berlin's University of the Arts, but it ended up focusing on much more. It shows China's most famous artist in the western world as a filmmaker, architect, concept artist and sculptor, but also as a father. In light of the refugee crisis engulfing Europe, Weiwei has been working on his own documentary. Human Flow, which is currently in post-production, involved filming in 25 countries, including Afghanistan, Palestine, and Mexico. The film shows the tragedy of people fleeing their homes, thousands of whom have drowned in the Mediterranean Sea. DW authors and directors Eva Mehl and Bettina Kolb accompanied him for 15 months. The nearly one-hour documentary, which was produced in cooperation with Deutsche Welle and the Einstein Foundation and premiered in Berlin, focuses on Weiwei's artistic approach to the refugee crisis. The documentary shows the artist, who was born in Beijing in…

On March 6, 2017, former Einstein Visiting Fellow Raymond Dolan, together with his colleagues Wolfram Schultz (University of Cambridge) and Peter Dayan (University College London), was awarded the world's most important prize in the field of brain research. 'The Brain Prize 2017' is awarded to the three scientists for their analysis of cognitive and processing processes and, in particular, the reward system as functions of the human brain that ensure survival. More informationen: University of Cambridge

Lecture with Jan Verwoert, critic and writer on contemporary art and cultural theory, and Finissage of the biannual showcase of the Graduate School fellowship programme at the Berlin University of the Arts.

The Einstein Foundation will grant its very first award for outstanding doctoral programmes in 2017. Altogether, the prize money will amount to one million euro and will recognise programmes that employ particularly innovative and successful strategies for supporting and supervising doctoral candidates. Applications may be submitted to the Einstein Foundation between now and 15 June 2016. The prize will be awarded annually.

Find out more about the Einstein Foundation in our newly released video. The video provides an insight about the outstanding researchers who are funded by the Einstein Foundation.

When our organs age or wear out, their renewal usually depends on a few stem cells in the tissue, because the vast majority of differentiated cells have lost their ability to divide and generate new cells. A German-French team led by Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow Michael Sieweke from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin and the Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) in Marseille has now discovered how macrophages, a type of specialized immune cell, can nevertheless divide and self-renew almost indefinitely. As the researchers show in the journal Science, the macrophages achieve this by activating a gene network similar to one found in embryonic stem cells. In the future the findings could provide new directions in regenerative medicine and therapies. “We asked ourselves how is this possible?” In the new study, Sieweke’s research team from the MDC in Berlin and the CIML in France have now been able to show that this also works with various…

Chinese artist Ai Weiwei will begin his teaching activities as Einstein Visiting Professor at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in the winter semester of 2015-16. An inaugural event will take place on 1st November 2015, at 5:00 p.m. At the event, titled “(teaching) ART,” Prof. Ai Weiwei will speak with other lecturers from UdK Berlin about art and the art of teaching art. “We at Berlin University of the Arts are very happy to welcome Ai Weiwei to our institution this semester. There were good reasons to invite him to UdK Berlin several years ago. Now, we finally had the chance to do so, and from our first conversations, I have high expectations for his work with our students,” said Prof. Martin Rennert, president of the UdK Berlin, at today's press conference. Prof. Dr. med. Dres. h. c. Günter Stock, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Einstein Foundation Berlin, emphasized the significance of Ai Weiwei’s appointment as Einstein Visiting Professor, for Berlin as a center of…

Einstein Foundation and Café Einstein jointly host talk with noble prize winner and Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow Thomas Südhof on September 16th at the prominent Café Einstein Unter den Linden. The talk kick-started a new event format "Einstein meets ..." of the Einstein Foundation Berlin. A full salon in the afternoon. Expectations must be high when guests are even crowding in the hallway eager to catch a glimpse of a genius in neurosciences. Their expectations were more than fulfilled. It was a great honour for the Einstein Foundation Berlin to welcome noble prize winner and Einstein BIH Visiting Fellow Thomas Südhof for a public interview and conversation at the Café Einstein Unter den Linden. Dr. Marion Müller, Managing Director of the Einstein Foundation Berlin, and Gerald Uhlig-Romero, owner and founder of the Café Einstein Unter den Linden, lead through the conversation. Accompanied by applause, Südhof, a German neuroscientist who lives in the USA and is doing research at…

In March 2016, the research project "Graphic medicine and literary pathographies: The aesthetics and politics of illness narratives in contemporary comics and literature (PATHO / GRAPHICS)" funded by the Einstein Foundation Berlin startet at Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies (Freie Universität Berlin). Project leader Prof. Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff presents the project in a short video.