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Master Fellowship Programme

Apply now - for the Master Fellowship Programme of the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research!
Deadline: July 15, 2025

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.

Your Career With Us

Develop your career in a vibrant atmosphere

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.

For an Open and Tolerant Society

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Science

Research Laboratories

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

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.

Publications

Publications by our scientists

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Edoardo Longarini receives the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize

June 27, 2025

Prize for outstanding scientific work in the field of molecular medicin

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CGA Graduate Symposium 2025

June 23, 2025

Achievement Career Institute

Celebrating our class of 2021 at the 13th CGA Graduate Symposium

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Enabling healthy ageing

June 18, 2025

Antebi Institute

Leopoldina discussion paper recommends shift in focus in research and medicine

Job Offers

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d)

June 06, 2025

5 Master Fellowships

April 02, 2025

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What We Offer

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

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.

Job offers

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Master Fellowship Programme

Basic research for healthy ageing

Your Career With Us

Let us introduce ourselves!

For an Open and Tolerant Society

Science

Research Laboratories

Core Facilities

Publications

News

Edoardo Longarini receives the Peter Hans Hofschneider Prize

CGA Graduate Symposium 2025

Enabling healthy ageing

Career

Job Offers

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d)

5 Master Fellowships

What We Offer

Education

Diversity

Events

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Nurturing Brain Health: The Role of Autophagy in Neuronal Metabolism"

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Mechanisms regulating mitochondrial dynamics during cell division"

AGE ART „How to die young at a very old age“

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Talk title to come"

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Intricate ways how small cell lung cancer (SCLC) rewires regulated cell death pathways"

CGA Graduate Symposium 2025

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "The role of mitochondria in cancer: from initiation to metastasis"

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Mitochondrial Transporters and the Control of Cellular Metabolism"

MPI AGE seminar "Evading ageing: Metabolic and proteostatic adaptations in oocytes"

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Exploring how immunity controls tissue regeneration - the skin as a model"