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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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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

Statement by the Max Planck Institutes in Cologne

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

ERC Starting Grant for Soni Deshwal

September 05, 2024

Studying ferroptosis through the mitochondrial lens

Electron microscope image of brain cells

Tiny tubes in the brain

July 31, 2024

Brain Press release Scheiblich

Immune cells in the brain form bridges to nerve cells and protect against neurodegenerative diseases

New research group led by Hans-Georg Sprenger

July 10, 2024

Institute Sprenger

Why does exercise slow down ageing?

Job Offers

12 PhD Positions (fully funded) | Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research

August 12, 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.

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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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

ERC Starting Grant for Soni Deshwal

Tiny tubes in the brain

New research group led by Hans-Georg Sprenger

Career

Job Offers

12 PhD Positions (fully funded) | Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research

What We Offer

Education

Diversity

Events

Precision medicine of aging: The biopsychosocial model of frailty and resilience

DNA Repair Meeting

The holy grail or the insoluble paradox: Biomarker of ageing

Drug Development 1: BioMed X - biomedical research and drug discovery at the interface between academia and industry

PhD thesis defence "Autochthonous Mouse Models as Tools to Study Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma"

Öffentliche Führung am MPI für Biologie des Alterns

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Ubiquitin Precursor Controls Mitochondrial and Cellular Stress Responses"

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "A DREAM Master Regulator of Genome Stability and Aging by the Clock yet without a Program"

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Identifying, Profiling and Therapeutically Clearing Senescent Cells in Alzheimer’s Disease"

Precision medicine of aging: The biopsychosocial model of frailty and resilience

DNA Repair Meeting

DNA Repair Meeting

DNA Repair Meeting

The holy grail or the insoluble paradox: Biomarker of ageing