For decades, a cystic fibrosis diagnosis meant an early death. Marcus Mall has helped develop a treatment that uses three tiny molecules to repair structurally abnormal proteins, allowing affected…
Global history challenges the certainties enshrined in national historiographies. Michael Goebel explores how migration, world trade, and other global phenomena coalesce to create injustice or spark…
Canadian physician Gordon Guyatt and the Psychological Science Accelerator honored as this year's recipients of the €500,000 prize for enhancing quality in research.
Hanoch Gutfreund, Former President of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Director of the Einstein Center and professor emeritus for theoretical physics, held the ceremonial speech on 1 December 2022…
AskDifferent #25 – Preprints have been shared in the physics community since the early 1950s but mostly among well established professors. Physicist Paul Ginsparg, who received the first Einstein…
Bitte senden Sie den Bericht als Word-Dokument bis zum vereinbarten Termin (ansonsten: 31. März des Folgejahres für Zwischen-, bzw. sechs Monate nach Projektende für Abschlussberichte) an…
What does it do to people when they live through war? What makes them take to the streets? And how much does freedom mean to them? Gwendolyn Sasse analyzes what makes the societies of Eastern Europe…
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2022 Einstein Professor for Organic Chemnistry and Functional Materials at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Since 2021 Member of the European Academy of Sciences 2019–2022…
Mitochondria are the cell’s powerhouses, but they can also drive cells to commit suicide. Neurologist Philipp Mergenthaler is looking for biochemical mechanisms that prevent cell death in stroke…
Financial mathematician Peter Friz specializes in one of the most promising fields of mathematics: the theory of rough paths. Developed to a large extent in Berlin, this theory has the potential to…