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New center for brain research on the Garching campus

14 Jul 2025 | News

A new connectomics research center will be established on the TUM campus in Garching, which will focus on the comprehensive mapping and analysis of all neuronal connections in the brain. At the…

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Magdalena Götz receives the Future Insight Prize 2025

14 Jul 2025 | News | Award

Merck, a leading science and technology company, awarded the 2025 Future Insight Prize to Magdalena Götz. The award – a € 250,000 research grant – recognizes Götz’s pioneering work in the field of…

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M1 Munich Medicine Alliance founding ceremony

10 Jul 2025 | News

Munich's two universities of excellence, the TUM and LMU, together with their university hospitals, want to work with Helmholtz Munich to strengthen Munich's international reputation as a center for…

Research Spotlight

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Neuronal remodeling is driven by polyglutamylation

7 Jul 2025 | Research Spotlight

The brain removes unnecessary or weak synaptic connections. A team of researchers has discovered that tubulin polyglutamylation is crucial for this synaptic remodeling because it tags microtubules…

Podcast

57 Clusters of Excellence, 1 podcast. This episode of “Exzellent erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle” focuses on our research with Thomas Misgeld and Anna-Sophia Wahl. Topics include research into common neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and stroke, the self-healing powers of the brain and the Cluster's interdisciplinary approach. Current advances in repair mechanisms, the importance of neuronal plasticity and the use of modern technologies such as AI for research are discussed.

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The Cluster of Excellence SyNergy (Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology) investigates how complex neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, stroke, or multiple sclerosis develop. Even though these diseases differ significantly in their clinical manifestations, overlapping mechanisms are involved in their development. Using systems neurology as a new interdisciplinary approach, researchers can better map the processes involved in neurovascular, neurodegenerative, and neuroimmunological diseases and develop approaches for novel therapies. The cluster has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2012.