The Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin-Buch
The Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (BIMSB) was launched by the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in 2008, supported by start-up funding from the BMBF and the Senate of Berlin. After initial pilot-funding the institute will be continued based on project and institutional funding. BIMSB is focused on post-transcriptional regulation of the genome and its impact on health and disease. Researchers focus on the elucidation and understanding of post-transcriptional regulatory networks and their integration in cellular regulatory pathways such as transcriptional regulatory circuits, signal transduction, protein-protein interaction networks and post-translational modifications. For this mission, quantitative experimental and theoretical approaches are applied on model systems suitable for multi-level high-throughput analyses.
The institute brings scientific, computational and high-end technological innovations to the central themes of MDC research: cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, cancer, and diseases of the nervous system.
The construction of a new building for BIMSB will make it the first institutional expansion of the MDC into the center of Berlin, supporting even closer interactions with major academic and medical institutions in the city and region. Current collaboration partners include Charité, Humboldt Universitiy, the DFG research center for applied Mathematics MATHEON, the German Center for Rheumatology Research, Free University Berlin, New York University, and others.
Click here to view a brochure with information about BIMSB.
Research Topics Currently Explored at the BIMSB
- Comparative genomics
- Differentiation and development
- Evolution of networks
- Metabolomics
- Model system development
- Proteomics
- Regulatory networks
- Transcriptomics
Contact person for general information:
Dr. Jutta Steinkötter, BIMSB Management
Contact person for student exchange administration:
Jennifer Stewart, Graduate Adminstration
Ongoing international exchange:
International BIMSB/NYU PhD exchange program has been implemented at BIMSB. Click here for more information on the program and the research faculty at BIMSB and NYU.