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Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

Summer Internship 2025

Summer Internship 2025

Learn more about our Undergraduate Internship Programme and apply until December 10, 2024!

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Basic research for healthy ageing

We are one of the world's leading institutes for ageing research. Our mission is to understand the natural ageing process and find out how to intervene in age-related diseases to mitigate or even prevent them.

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Your Career With Us

Develop your career in a vibrant atmosphere

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Let us introduce ourselves!

At the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, researchers are working to understand aging. Meet our scientists in the video and learn more about their research.

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For an Open and Tolerant Society

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Research Laboratories

We aim to elucidate the molecular, physiological and evolutionary mechanisms underlying ageing.

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Core Facilities

Our core facilities are a hallmark of our institute. They offer all researchers the opportunity to pursue their research questions with the latest techniques and state-of-the-art methods.

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Publications

Publications by our scientists

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News

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Is ageing in our genes?

October 09, 2024

Deelen Event Institute

Joris Deelen presents his research at 'Wissenschaft in Kölner Häusern'

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GO-Bio initial funding for Helen Dauben

October 04, 2024

From academia to industry: development of a new antibody

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Soni Deshwal

ERC Starting Grant for Soni Deshwal

September 05, 2024

Achievement Grant Institute Langer Mitochondria

Studying ferroptosis through the mitochondrial lens

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Career

Job Offers

Undergraduate Internship - Summer 2025

October 10, 2024

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What We Offer

Comprehensive support for our international employees, individual career service and promotion of a healthy work-life balance.

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Education

No matter what your goal is and on which step of the career ladder you are: As long as excellent research is part of your path and you want to support our vision, you are in the right place.

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Diversity

We strive to create an equal, diverse and inclusive environment for all employees.

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Events

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Ataxia-telangiectasia: A demonstration of the genome stability-cancer-cell senescence-aging link"

Nov 7, 2024 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

MPI for Biology of Ageing, Room: Auditorium

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "The never-ending quest for metabolic homeostasis in neurons through the lens of mitochondria"

Nov 12, 2024 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

MPI for Biology of Ageing, Room: Auditorium

Translation of ageing research: Success stories

Nov 12, 2024 03:00 PM - 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Virtual

PhD thesis defence "The Interplay of nutrient cues and growth signaling in diapause reveals novel mechanism of stem cell longevity and cellular senescence"

Nov 18, 2024 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

MPI for Biology of Ageing, Room: Auditorium

November 2024

Commercialisation: Max-Planck Innovation and UoC-Gateway

from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Dr. Mareike Göritz, Max-Planck Innovation, Dr. Dadhichi Paretkar, Gateway-University of Cologne

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Lost in translation: principles of protein degradation at the ribosome"

from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Débora B. Trentini Schmidt (FM | CMMC)

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Ataxia-telangiectasia: A demonstration of the genome stability-cancer-cell senescence-aging link"

from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Yossi Shiloh

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "The never-ending quest for metabolic homeostasis in neurons through the lens of mitochondria"

from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Elisa Motori (FMNS / Institute of Biochemistry)

Translation of ageing research: Success stories

from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Dr. Helen Dauben, Go-Bio initial Grantee with TASI, Dr. Yu-Xuan Lu, MAX!mize Fellow with FlyScreen

PhD thesis defence "The Interplay of nutrient cues and growth signaling in diapause reveals novel mechanism of stem cell longevity and cellular senescence"

from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Tim Nonninger (Antebi group)

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Metabolic and Nutrient Signaling at the center of Everything"

from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Constantinos Demetriades

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Talk title TBC"

from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Elly Tanaka