CECAD: News

‘Only the stressed die young’: a molecular switch in flies is decisive for long life and stress resilience

05.06.2019

Study led by Mirka Uhlirova from CECAD finds that fruit flies lacking the transcription factor Ets21c live longer in a favourable, unstressed...

CECAD Research Group Leader Receives Professorship for Translational Nephrology at Cologne University Hospital

03.06.2019

Prof. Dr. Roman-Ulrich Müller has accepted the call for a new W2 professorship for Translational Nephrology at the Medical Faculty of the University...

Preventing cell death as novel therapeutic strategy for rheumatoid arthritis - new publication in Nature Cell Biology

14.05.2019

A collaborative study by research groups from the Cluster of Excellence CECAD, the University of Cologne, VIB, Ghent University, the Βiomedical...

Nora Vögtle, University of Freiburg: "MitoUPreR: Early events in mitochondrial unfolded protein response pathways”

10.04.2019

Biochemical Colloquium, CRC 1218 | Collaborative Research Centre on "Mitochondrial regulation of cellular function"

The smell of food coordinates cellular recycling and lifespan - new publication in Nature Metabolism

19.02.2019

The smell of food affects physiology and aging. This could be shown by the team of Prof. Thorsten Hoppe at the Cluster of Excellence for Aging...

Björn Schumacher receives Eva Luise Köhler Research Prize 2019: Rare diseases provide insight into the secret of ageing

18.02.2019

"Childlike old people" and so-called "children of the night" - in general terms, impressive figures of speech have established themselves for those...

Doped by food - Dopamine release regulates our eating behaviour

14.01.2019

When it comes to our food intake, we are only partially in control. Scientists at CECAD and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in...

Ivan Matić elected as EMBO Young Investigator

20.11.2018

Research group leader Dr. Ivan Matić was selected by the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) as one of 26 new Young Investigators. He will...

Keio Cologne Lecture Series: Getting Old and Even Older

31.10.2018, 10:00 - 30.01.2019, 11:30

Both Keio University/Tokyo, and University of Cologne have established “Longevity/Aging” as a transversal topic of interdisciplinary research, to...

Good news for aging research: CECAD remains excellent

27.09.2018

On 27.09.2018, the Excellence Commission of the Federal Government and the federal States l announced the list of research institutes to be funded...