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Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine
Berlin's Helmholtz molecular medicine institute, whose cancer research spans T-cell receptor therapies, single-cell biology and systems medicine.
Also called: MDCMax-Delbrück-CentrumMax Delbrück Center
Overview
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.
Location
Berlin, DE
Type
research institute
Website
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#271 · 24 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 24 from 12 linked objects) · ranking
Research output
From OpenAlex, oncology works in the last five years (2022 to 2026, current year in progress); counted on 2026-09-16.
Matched to Max Delbrück Center, including child institutions. 146 works · 1,736 citations · 84% open access · 9% clinical trials · 1% reviews.
Oncology works per year
422022
212023
202024
332025
302026
Most works
- Thomas Blankenstein16 works
- Ulrich Keller14 works
- Uta E. Höpken12 works
- Armin Rehm11 works
- Gerald Willimsky9 works
- Dieter Beule9 works
- Lars Bullinger8 works
- Ulrike Stein7 works
- Antonia Busse7 works
- Armin Jarosch6 works
Most cited
- TCR gene therapy
- Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology
- Cancer genomics and signalling
- Systems medicine with Charité
Maike Sander
Scientific Director and Chair of the Board
Stem cell biologyPancreatic islet biologyOrganoid models
Stem-cell and pancreas biologist who has led the Max Delbrück Center as Scientific Director since November 2022.
Nikolaus Rajewsky
Group Leader, Systems Biology of Gene Regulatory Elements; Scientific Director, Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology (MDC-BIMSB)
Systems biologySingle-cell and spatial transcriptomicsNon-coding RNA
Systems biologist at the MDC known for microRNA and circular RNA discoveries and for single-cell and spatial genomics applied to cancer.
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