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Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine

aka MDC, Max-Delbrück-Centrum, Max Delbrück Center

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

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
Newsweek 2026 oncology rank
Not in top 300 listing used
OnCo score
#263 · 24 points (0 Newsweek + 0 NCI + 24 from 12 linked objects) · ranking

Programmes

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  • TCR gene therapy
  • Berlin Institute for Medical Systems Biology
  • Cancer genomics and signalling
  • Systems medicine with Charité

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