September 2018

2018/09/24

Freigeist Fellowship for Shimpei Ishiyama

Shimpei Ishiyama, postdoc in Michael Brecht's lab, has successfully applied for a Freigeist Fellowship (VW Stiftung). He will receive 1 Mio Euro to continue his research on positive emotions like ticklishness and their corresponding neuronal processes in the brain.

2018/09/24

Award of the Wilhelm Wundt Medal of the German Psychological Association (DGPs) 2018 to Professor Angela D. Friederici

Angela D. Friederici has been awarded the Wilhelm Wundt Medal 2018 of the German Psychological Association (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie, DGPs).

2018/09/10

New FENS-Kavli Scholar

Susanne Schreiber, member of the Einstein Center for Neurosciences Berlin was elected as FENS-Kavli Scholar into the FENS-Kavli Network of Excellence.

New generation of pain medications

Researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Zuse-Institut Berlin have developed a new generation of pain medications. Using computer simulations, they have designed new opioids that have an effect only at the site of injury or inflammation