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Summer Internship 2024

Learn more about our Undergraduate Internship Programme and apply until December 31, 2023!

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.

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

Cycle of fasting and feeding is crucial for healthy ageing

November 13, 2023

Genetic switch rescues ageing fish from continuous fasting trap

Headmaster Klaudius Zdriliuk and Bettina Bertalan, Head of the "Comparative Biology" core facility, sign the agreement

A change of scenery for pupils

November 10, 2023

Career Core Facility Institute

Collaboration with Gesamtschule Lindenthal enables discussion on animal testing

Location, location, location

November 09, 2023

Press release Tessarz

Liver cells age differently depending on where they are in the organ

Job Offers

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (m/f/d) | Cell Growth Control in Health and Age-related Disease

November 07, 2023

Undergraduate Internship Programme 2024

October 25, 2023

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.