🏆 👏 Congratulations to our member Arthur Liesz @isd-research.bsky.social for receiving an ERC consolidator grant for his project: TRAINED - The Role of Trained Immunity in Brain-Body Communication and Secondary Organ Dysfunction.

🔗 Read more on our website: synergy-munich.de/news-events/...

You can currently find us at #SfN25 Neuroscience 2025 in San Diego (Society for Neuroscience) as part of Neurocenters in Germany. If you're there too, let's connect - join us at booth 3917!

👃 A reduced sense of smell can be one of the first signs of Alzheimer's disease. Researchers discovered that the brain's immune system plays a significant role, indicating that it may attack neuronal fibers essential for the sense of smell.

🔗Summary on our website: synergy-munich.de/news-events/...

🏆 Our member Mikael Simons receives US$500,000 for a project to investigate disease mechanisms involving tau proteins. The funding is part of the international program „Tauopathy Challenge Workshop 2025“.

🔗 Read more at @dzne.science: www.dzne.de/en/im-fokus/...

🧠 A team of researchers led by Monika Leischner-Brill and Thomas Misgeld discovered that tubulin polyglutamylation plays an important role in synaptic remodeling by tagging microtubules for severing.

🔗Read a summary of the study on our website: synergy-munich.de/news-events/...

🏆 👏 Congratulations to our members Dieter Edbauer, Thomas Korn, and Christian Weber who each received the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council (ERC)!

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👏Congratulations Arthur Liesz! Liesz was awarded the prestigious ESO Scientific Excellence Award for his contributions to the understanding of stroke and neurovascular disease. The award was presented during the Presidential Session at the ESO Conference in Helsinki.
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🏃‍♂️‍➡️🏃‍♀️‍➡️ A team of 19 researchers, along with our managing director and Team Captain, Tobias Niemann, participated in the largest running event to raise funds for spinal cord injury research—the Wings for Life World Run.

More: synergy-munich.de/news-events/...

A study led by Anna-Sophia Wahl (@isd-research.bsky.social) reveals that the survival of place cells with stable coding for spatial information can be a strong predictor of positive cognitive outcomes following a #stroke.

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A study led by @nfranzme.bsky.social and published in Molecular Neurodegeneration reveals that α-synuclein co-pathology is more prevalent in advanced #alzheimersdisease and that it accelerates amyloid-related tau accumulation.

🔗Find a summary on our website: synergy-munich.de/scrivito/new...

Join "Was Wissen schafft" next week for an exciting presentation by our member Jovica Ninkovic (@bmc-lmu.bsky.social)

🗓️8 April 2025, 7 PM
📍Hybrid: Campus Martinsried or Zoom
🎤"Gehirn in Bestform: Stammzellen für Plastizität und Regneration des Gehirns"

🔗 more info: www.bi.mpg.de/2739077/2025...

A team led by Jürgen Bernhagen & Omar El Bounkari (@isd-research.bsky.social) improves our understanding of how inflammation in blood vessels is connected to liver problems in atherosclerotic diseases and suggests potential treatment pathways.

🔗More insights: synergy-munich.de/news-events/...

💭 Our PhD & Postdoc reps initiated visits to our Technology Hubs for our researchers and kicked off with a visit to our Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptome Hubs last week.

👋 Thanks Arek Kendirli, Janos Groh, Clara de la Rosa del Val, and Simon Frerich for hosting the first event of the series!

👋 Meet our PhD and Postdoc Representatives

💭 The voice of our PhD students and Postdocs. A point of contact for feedback, questions, criticism, and improvements. And they organize extracurricular activities! Meet @angelikadannert.bsky.social, Clara, Lis and Nathalie.

🔗 Read more: lnkd.in/dKtzshqr

A team of researchers led by @nfranzme.bsky.social studied the connection between amyloid and tau buildup. They show that amyloid drives the spread of tau by evoking neuronal hyperconnectivity.

🔗More insights on our website: synergy-munich.de/scrivito/new...

🫀A research team led by Martin Dichgans explored how HDAC9 influences vascular inflammation, discovering its role in regulating the NLRP3 inflammasome and creating a targeted anti-inflammatory treatment for treating atherosclerosis.

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