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Summer Internship 2025

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

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for a Ph.D. position at the Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research! Deadline: November 04, 2024.

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

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

Joris Deelen and Koa Krüger are standing in front of the screen.

Is ageing in our genes?

October 09, 2024

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

GO-Bio initial funding for Helen Dauben

October 04, 2024

Grant Matic

From academia to industry: development of a new antibody

ERC Starting Grant for Soni Deshwal

September 05, 2024

Achievement Grant Institute Langer Mitochondria

Studying ferroptosis through the mitochondrial lens

Job Offers

Undergraduate Internship - Summer 2025

October 10, 2024

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.

Job offers

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Cologne Seminars on Ageing "The Role of PARPs, NAD+, and Site-Specific ADP-ribosylation in the Control of Complex Biological Processes"

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

Lee Kraus

From Tardigrades to Cancer Treatment: Creative Implementation of Proteomics in Biological Discovery.

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

Amanda Smythers, Harvard Medical School, USA

Drug Development 2: Compound screening, chemistry and pharmacology (Pharmacokinetics, Toxicology)

from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Matthias Baumann, PhD, Lead Discovery Center

Biomedical Seminars Cologne “Redox-regulated chaperones – From a tightly controlled thiol switch to proteostasis regulation”

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

Kathrin Ulrich (Institute of Biochemistry, Cellular Biochemistry)

Summer Internship 2025

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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

Is ageing in our genes?

GO-Bio initial funding for Helen Dauben

ERC Starting Grant for Soni Deshwal

Career

Job Offers

Undergraduate Internship - Summer 2025

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

What We Offer

Education

Diversity

Events

Drug Development 3: Clinical studies

Biomedical Seminars Cologne TBA

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "A Systems Biology Perspective on Natural Variation and Aging"

Biotechnology: Diagnostics, analytics and screening technologies

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Microbial regulation of chemotherapy"

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

Wissenschaft in Kölner Häusern "Liegt das Altern in den Genen?"

Biomedical Seminars Cologne “Molecular control of actomyosin contractility during morphogenesis in Drosophila”