Fantastic day at the Festival of Science & Curiosity at the EMBL! We shared our enthusiasm for all things science with a young and exuberant audience. You answered our questions about the Health + Life Science Alliance so well and we had tons of fun! The team of Torsten Wuestenberg demonstrated a set up of their Core Facility for Neurocognitive Systems Research (CNSR at Universität Heidelberg) and shared their results with a fascinated public. The Festival of Science & Curiosity is funded by the European Union. EMBL is one of the seven member institutions of the Health + Life Science...

The Alliance Splash 2026 Aftermovie is here! With highlights from the afternoon of networking and scientific exchange with recipients from the #ExploreTech projects. See if you can spot the wheel of f...

✨The Health + Life Science Alliance was delighted to host the very first Women Professors' Networking Meeting of Heidelberg's Faculty of Medicine.   ☀️Initiated by Wolfgang Wick and Vera Cornelius-Lam...

Thanks to everyone of you who came out last week to participate in our #AllianceSplash2026. Please enjoy some impressions and keep your eyes peeled for the upcoming video with short interviews. This y...

GeneNovate® Final Event Munich

Through its “Proof of Concept” (PoC) grants, the European Research Council (ERC) supports scientists in further developing the economic potential of their research findings. In 2026, two scientists fr...

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Pablo Rojas! Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? I work at the intersection of cognitive science and artificial...

🩺🔬 2. Tag der Medizinischen Fakultät 2026 in Heidelberg Der diesjährige Tag der Medizinischen Fakultät war eine sehr gut besuchte Veranstaltung im neuen AudiMAX Gebäude der Universität Heidelberg. Di...

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Ruri Yamaguchi! Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? I would like to clarify the new biomarkers for the early c...

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Despoina Eugenia Kiousi! Q: Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? A: I am interested in deciphering why, and und...

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Bettina Welz! Q: Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? A: I work in developmental genomics, studying how embryos...

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Nikolaus Watson! Q: Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? A: I work on the cell biology of cancer cells. Specif...

Green Science Festival Transitioning to sustainable research practices together Date and time 28 May 2026 09:00 AM - 19:00 PM CET (Central European Time) Address NEMO Science Museum

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Dr. Steffanie Heindl! Q: Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? A: Working at the intersection of oncology and ne...

🚢 MS Wissenschaft Tour 2026 is coming to our region! 🔬 The DKFZ German Cancer Research Center exhibit together with Deutsche Krebshilfe highlights the importance of #HCVVaccination. Young and older v...

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Xin Wang! Q: Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? A: I study gene regulatory networks involved in human fetal h...

Meet our Alliance Fellow Sabrina Lewis! Q: Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? A: I am a postdoctoral researcher in the groups of Professor...

On #EarthDay2026 the Health + Life Science Alliance did a wonderful spring cleaning and spruce up of our rooftop terrace with our partners from #heiINNOVATION (who reside on the 2nd floor of our build...

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Dr. Hubert Senanu Ahor! 1. Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? I am a postdoctoral researcher in Molecular Hep...

Meet our new Alliance Fellow Jack Whitehead! Q: Could you tell us a bit about the work you do? Which field do you work in and who are your PIs? A: I am a structural biologist, and my work looks at th...

This week we held our 2026 Postdoc Onboarding event at our Alliance headquarters. Our #postdocs receive Health + Life Science Alliance funding for two years and work closely with PIs from two differen...

On International Women’s Day, the Health + Life Science Alliance Heidelberg Mannheim is proud to highlight the perspectives of two of our young scientists working as scientific student assistants (HiW...

Ramsey Najm scientific head of the new organoid robo platform. Photo: Gabriele Lange, 2026 The Organoid Engineering Lab at Heidelberg University, led by Dr.