ISAS Kompakt

Against the Current: A Way Back to Basic Research

Suyuan Chen cannot find the taste of his hometown Mianyang anywhere else. Nevertheless, the PhD student gave up his job at a pharmaceutical company in China to research methods for cancer diagnoses at ISAS. In the interview, he explains why. More

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. More

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. How she manages this and which methods are needed? More

„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 aging, and what hydrogen sulfide has got to do with this. More

„In Imaging, 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. Using imaging techniques, the biologist wants to find out why drugs for the treatment of osteoporosis cause the death of the jawbone. More