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CECAD contributes perspective on healthy aging at first Executive Dialogue

10.04.2025 2025 Innovation University of Cologne Public Outreach TopNews

The new high-level format initiated by the University of Cologne connected science, politics and business in Cologne, with CECAD…

Malkon Guillermo Sanchez Estrada and Annamaria Regina won the regional FameLab at Bielefeld

03.04.2025 Doctoral Students 2025 Diversity Public Outreach

CECAD doctoral students Malkon and Annamaria from Dr. Mauro Corrado’s lab captivated the crowd in Bielefeld with their…

Big Curiosity, Bright Futures: Students Discover Science at CECAD

03.04.2025 2025 GADIS Public Outreach

For Girls’ and Boys’ Day 2025, students got hands-on with science at CECAD and discovered how exciting research careers can be.

proteostasis research. the little men are working on a toy human muscle and one can see both tools to build a house or to dispose of biological material, like trash bins

CECAD Scientists Receive DFG Funding for Proteostasis Research

31.03.2025 Research Group Leaders 2025 TopNews Grants Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hoppe Prof. Dr. David Vilchez

A new DFG-funded research group investigates how proteostasis is regulated at the organismal level and its impact on aging and…

Dessert stomach emerges in the brain

13.02.2025 2025 News and Calendar TopNews Dr. Henning Fenselau

Nerve cells that tell us we are full also make us crave sweets

Hidden Role in Cellular Health Unveiled for Mitochondrial Protein

12.02.2025 2025 News and Calendar TopNews Dr. Ana-Mafalda Escobar-Henriques Dias

Researchers from Cologne, Bochum, Padova, and Angers have identified a new link between mitochondrial function, protein quality…

Little Scientists on a Big Discovery Journey

11.02.2025 CECAD Office 2025 GADIS Public Outreach

Preschoolers explore the wonders of science through colorful experiments at CECAD

Björn Schumacher Joins the Academy for Health & Lifespan Research

07.02.2025 2025 News and Calendar TopNews Prof. Dr. Björn Schumacher

Advancing global collaboration to accelerate breakthroughs in healthy aging.

Cell atlas of the human hypothalamus

05.02.2025 2025 News and Calendar TopNews Prof. Dr. Jens C. Brüning

New cell atlas of the metabolic centre revolutionises research into anti-obesity drugs

Powering brain health: How autophagy protects neurons by controlling their glucose consumption

16.01.2025 2025 TopNews Prof. Dr. Natalia Kononenko

Scientists have discovered a novel mechanism by which the cellular cleaning pathway called autophagy protects brain cells in mice,…