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Against the Current: A Way Back to Basic Research

Suyuan Chen gave up his job at a pharmaceutical company in China to research methods for cancer diagnoses at ISAS. In the interview, he explains why.

Early Testing for Endometriosis: Brenda Krishnacoumar Wants to Give Women More Time

Brenda Krishnacoumar wants to develop a non-invasive method for the early detection of endometriosis. She plans to look for markers that make a screening for the incurable disease possible at a young age.

Leibniz Healthtech-Lecture: Anika Grüneboom Opens the Toolbox of Fluorescence Microscopy

Prof Dr Anika Grüneboom's work aims at making the body transparent and thus gain new insights into the genesis, early detection & treatment of diseases via imaging.

„We Age Because our Metabolism Makes Mistakes“

For Radio 91.2's podcast "Ruhrpott, deine Forschung", Dr. Martín Hugo explains how the research of the working group ERC Sulfaging contributes to uncovering mechanisms of ageing.

„I Must Be Willing to Venture into Something New“

In the interview, Flora Weber explains why it is important to focus on more than just the details in microscopy.

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What’s Your Task as an Intern, Christopher?

Interns at ISAS do more than make coffee. Christopher Borg gives an exemplary insight into his internship, during which he worked on using a miniaturised plasma as an ion source for ion mobility spectrometry (IMS).