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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 05/06/2026

DZNE Participates in New Collaborative Research Center in Bonn. “Rhineland Study” investigates impact of dietary diversity on health. 👉 dzne.de/en/im-fokus/meldungen/2026/dzne-participates-in-new-collaborative-research-center-in-bonn/

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 21/05/2026

Neural networks are key to brain 🧠 function - influencing memory, aging, and neurodegeneration. With the new “Neural Networks Program”, 15+ DZNE research groups are joining forces to link network activity to disease and drive development of biomarkers and therapies. 👉 www.dzne.de/forschung/pr...

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 14/04/2026

Memory loss in Alzheimer’s disease is not explained by neuron loss alone. A review in @natrevneurol.nature.com shows that disruptions in neural network function play a key role, highlighting new directions for diagnosis and treatment. The “Circuit Utilization Framework” proposes ... (1/2) 📸 AI

Illustration of neurons with branching extensions forming a network of brain cells. Made with AI

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 16/03/2026

Elevated Blood 🩸 p-Tau181, p-Tau217 Not Unique to Alzheimer’s Disease 🧠 Alzforum reports on recent findings by @mathiasjucker.bsky.social and coworkers published in @natmed.nature.com 👉 www.alzforum.org/news/researc... 📷: DZNE/Frommann

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 19/02/2026

A word that feels like home. For International Mother Language Day, on Feb 21, members of our team share their favorite word from their mother tongue. What’s yours?

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 30/01/2026

Proud to share that PD Dr. Patrick Öckl has been awarded the Hirnliga Research Prize 2025 for pioneering work on a blood biomarker to detect Alzheimer’s-related changes early. His research on beta-synuclein offers promising insights for minimally invasive diagnosis. 👉 www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/...

Picture shows Dr. Patrick Öckl working in the laboratory. Source: DZNE / Frommann

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 23/12/2025

Paper alert: How do learning and memory emerge in the brain? DZNE's @jangrundemann.bsky.social and colleagues have observed a key mechanism of neuronal adaptability in the living brain for the 1st time. Published in @natneuro.nature.com, the study reveals dynamic regulation of nerve cell signaling.

Neurons under a microscope. Their long processes – where signals originate and are relayed – glow brightly. DZNE researchers have examined changes in these transmission pathways. Source: DZNE / Julia Esser, Gründemann Lab

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 17/12/2025

Woohoo! Triple recognition for Martin Reuter (DZNE Bonn): @helmholtz.de funding secures the open-source brain MRI software FastSurfer, also awarded with the Helmholtz Software Sustainability Prize. In addition, DZNE Foundation bridge funding advances AI biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases.

Prof. Martin Reuter. Source: DZNE / Kurda

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 17/12/2025

Congrats dear Lucas Ribeiro! Lucas has taken up a prestigious position in his home country of Brazil. Alongside his work at DZNE Bonn, the immunologist and bioinformatician is now a Visiting Research Fellow at his alma mater, the Federal University of Minas Gerais.

Dr. Lucas Ribbeiro has taken up a prestigious position in his home country of Brazil, which he will coordinate alongside his work at DZNE’s Bonn site. Source: DZNE / Kurda

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 16/12/2025

Congrats! Frank Bradke received the “Drs. Ayeez and Shelena Lalji & Family ALS Endowed Award for Innovative Healing”, funded with US$ 40k. The award honors his research on the growth of nerve connections. It's presented by the Sean M. Healey and AMG Center for ALS at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Prof. Frank Bradke. Source: DZNE / Frommann

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 16/12/2025

Baseline results from the international PROFA study highlight the patient-reported, psychosocial, and health-economic burden of Friedreich’s ataxia. 🧠 For details, read the paper in The Lancet Regional Health – Europe. 📸: vita555 - stock.adobe.com

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 10/12/2025

🧠New study by scientists from DZNE and Harvard Medical School shows: More than one third of dementia cases in Germany could be prevented 👉 www.dzne.de/en/news/pres... 📸: DZNE

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 28/11/2025

Neurons that dampen electrical brain activity influence emotional memories more than expected. DZNE's @sabinekrabbe.bsky.social and colleagues report in @nature.com Communications that these cells are key for how memories form - offering new clues to anxiety and PTSD. 👉 www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/...

Image shows stained nerve cells under a microscope.
Neurons viewed under the microscope. A special fluorescent marker reveals their activity, with brighter cells indicating higher levels of activity. Source: DZNE / Krabbe Lab

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 20/11/2025

🏆 Congrats Lars Lannfelt! The Swedish #Alzheimer’s researcher, who paved the way for the drug #Lecanemab has received the "Hartwig Piepenbrock-DZNE Prize". The award recognizes exceptional research on neurodegenerative diseases. 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/dzne_d...

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 13/11/2025

Congratulations to DZNE’s Martin Dichgans, Brit Mollenhauer, @joachimschultze.bsky.social and Mikael Simons for their notable scientific impact and ongoing contributions to advancing our understanding of neurodegenerative diseases. They are listed as Highly Cited Researchers 2025 by @clarivate.com

Highly Cited Researchers 2025 Social Card

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 23/10/2025

🏆Congrats! @cboeger.bsky.social, PhD student at DZNE, was honored with the „3rd annual Drs. Ayeez and Shelena Lalji & Family Student Scholar Award for Repair and Regenerative Mechanisms in ALS“, worth 5,000 US Dollars. 👉 www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/...

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 22/10/2025

🏆Congrats to Dr. Anna Aschenbrenner for the "Tobias Welte Prize” of the German Sepsis Society, which recognizes her research on the life-saving effects of the drug #dexamethasone in #COVID-19 patients. 👉 www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/...

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 20/10/2025

Registration open: eveeno.com/applicationb... Under the theme “From Genes to Circuits and Behavior”, top neuroscientists - incl. Cori Bargmann, @edvardmoser.bsky.social, Rosa Paolicelli, Maude Baldwin & Zachary Knight - will meet at to explore how neural circuits drive behavior.

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 29/09/2025

DZNE is joining the Human Immunome Project (HIP) as a scientific partner and a member of the project’s European hub - together with @immunosens.bsky.social and the Germany-based "Swarm Learning Consortium". 👉 www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/...

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 27/06/2025

Gratulerar! Award for groundbreaking AD research. Lars Lannfelt, one of the pioneers behind "Lecanemab", has been honored with the Hartwig-Piepenbrock-DZNE-Prize. He receives the award for his outstanding contributions to the development of new therapeutic approaches for neurodegenerative diseases.

Portrait of Lars Lannfelt. Source: BioArctic

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 24/06/2025

🥂 Dr. Maria Eugenia Bernis received the 2025 GNPI Science Prize! She showed caffeine can help protect newborn brains after oxygen deprivation. In a preclinical model, just 3 days of caffeine treatment significantly reduced brain damage and inflammation by modulating the AMPK/mTOR signaling pathway.

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 16/06/2025

Congratulations to Christian Haass (@haasslab.bsky.social)! He receives an honorary doctorate from the University of Eastern Finland for 30+ years of groundbreaking Alzheimer’s research on beta-amyloid proteins and new therapeutic approaches. 📸: UFE/Raija Törrönen & UFE/Niko Jouhkimainen

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 23/05/2025

Woohoo!! A proud DZNE is part of three Clusters of Excellence: @neurocure.bsky.social (Berlin), @immunosens.bsky.social (Bonn), and @synergy-munich.bsky.social (Munich). These top research networks will receive 7 more years of funding from 2026. #ExcellenceStrategy #Neuroscience

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 21/02/2025

Today we celebrate International Mother Language Day @ DZNE. Language is more than communication—it’s identity, history, and connection. At our center, people from 60+ nations collaborate, bringing diverse backgrounds and tongues. For the record: Science thrives on diversity and exchange.

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 05/02/2025

Congrats to these two first authors from DZNE Munich on receiving the "Best Paper Award" from the DZNE foundation! @shreeyakedia.bsky.social was honored for her paper published in “Nature Neuroscience”. Marvin Reich, received the award for his paper published in “Science Translational Medicine”.

The illustrations shows a neuron and the inscription "Best Paper Award".

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 20/12/2024

Warm wishes for a wonderful holiday season and a New Year that’s full of creativity, inspiration, and achievement.

The DZNE season's greetings card reads: Season's greetings and good wishes for the New Year.

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 17/04/2024

👏 Congrats! A DZNE research team around Prof. Martin Reuter has been awarded around one million US dollars, by NIH, for the development of an innovative, AI-based method to measure the “choroid plexus” three-dimensionally in human brain scans. More 👉: www.dzne.de/en/news/pres...

Symbolic image of the human brain. Source: vita555 - stock.adobe.com

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 17/04/2024

DZNE's Markus Zweckstetter has been awarded around 2.5 million euros. His studies will focus on so-called kinases, a special class of enzymes. From the 5 year project, he and his team aim to gain insights for the development of new drugs against Alzheimer's. More 👉: www.dzne.de/en/news/pres...

Picture shows Prof. Markus Zweckstetter.

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 21/02/2024

In order to support young researchers in the field of dementia research in Germany, the Frankfurt-based Hans and Ilse Breuer Foundation has awarded three doctoral scholarships to DZNE linked phd students. Read more 👉 www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/...

Symbolic image og lab work. Source: DZNE / Frommann

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 23/01/2024

Ideas need Diversity and Cooperation: That is why we take a clear stand against discrimination, racism and narrow-mindedness - and for an open, free society, for democracy and diversity. Our full statement 👉 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

The picture shows an illustration of different people. On top is the following quote from the DZNE Executive Board: "Ideas need diversity and solidarity".

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DZNE research center @dzne.science · 13/12/2023

Hörtipp: In Kürze dürfte die EMA das #Alzheimer-Medikament Lecanemab zur Zulassung empfehlen. Was ist das für ein Mittel und wem hilft es? Was ist mit Nebenwirkungen? Ist das Mittel evtl. der Anfang einer Revolution? Mehr dazu im verlinken @zeit.de WISSEN Podcast. 👉 www.zeit.de/gesundheit/2...

Coverbild des Podcast "ZEITWISSEN" mit der Episode "Alzheimer wird endlich behandelbar"

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