# Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

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## TL;DR

Berlin's Helmholtz molecular medicine institute, whose cancer research spans T-cell receptor therapies, single-cell biology and systems medicine.

## Summary

Founded in 1992 on the Berlin-Buch campus, the Max Delbrück Center is a Helmholtz Association institute that works closely with Charité through the Experimental and Clinical Research Center and the Berlin Institute of Health. Thomas Blankenstein's group developed T-cell receptor gene therapy approaches that led to the spin-out T-knife, and the Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology under Nikolaus Rajewsky is a centre for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics. Other groups study cancer genomics, oncogenic signalling, tumour immunology and MYC-driven lymphoma. The centre contributes to the DKTK and the German Human Cell Atlas efforts.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: MDC; Max-Delbrück-Centrum; Max Delbrück Center
- City: Berlin, DE
- Type: research-institute
- Website: https://www.mdc-berlin.de

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Delbr%C3%BCck_Center_for_Molecular_Medicine_in_the_Helmholtz_Association
- Homepage: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/en
- BIMSB: https://www.mdc-berlin.de/bimsb

## Connected records

- collections: [CZ CELLxGENE / Human Cell Atlas](https://onco.cc/collections/cellxgene-hca/)
- cancers: [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/dlbcl/), [Melanoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/melanoma/)
- fronts: [Cell Therapy](https://onco.cc/fronts/cell-therapy/), [Drug Discovery Platforms](https://onco.cc/fronts/drug-discovery/)
- technologies: [CRISPR functional genomics](https://onco.cc/technologies/crispr-screens/), [RNA sequencing & expression profiling](https://onco.cc/technologies/rna-seq/), [Single-cell & spatial profiling](https://onco.cc/technologies/single-cell-spatial/), [TCR-T cell therapy](https://onco.cc/technologies/tcr-t/)
- institutions: [Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin](https://onco.cc/institutions/charite/), [German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ)](https://onco.cc/institutions/dkfz/)
- people: [Maike Sander](https://onco.cc/people/maike-sander/), [Nikolaus Rajewsky](https://onco.cc/people/nikolaus-rajewsky/)

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