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Zeynep Akata Receives 2025 ZukunftsWissen Award

Professor Zeynep Akata has been awarded the 2025 ZukunftsWissen Prize by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Commerzbank Foundation in recognition of her outstanding scientific contributions. The €50,000 award was presented on September 25, 2025, in Halle (Saale) as part of the Leopoldina’s Annual Assembly, which this year focuses on the topic of…

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Berlin Science Award goes to Philipp Adelhelm

Battery researcher Prof. Dr. Philipp Adelhelm has been awarded the 2024 Berlin Science Award. He is a professor at the Institute of Chemistry at Humboldt University in Berlin (HU) and heads a joint research group at HU and the Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB). The materials scientist and electrochemist is investigating sustainable batteries, which play a key role in the success…

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2025 Future Insight Prize Awarded to Magdalena Götz for Breakthroughs in Brain Regeneration

Merck, a leading science and technology company, awarded the 2025 Future Insight Prize to Prof. Magdalena Götz from Helmholtz Munich. The award – a € 250,000 research grant – recognizes Götz’s pioneering work in the field of regenerative neurobiology, particularly the discovery of how to reprogram glial cells into functional neurons, opening up new therapeutic approaches for…