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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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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

Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research

March 31, 2025

Check out the new film and discover the unique aspects of our ageing research programme

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Cologne Children's University at the MPI

March 11, 2025

Event Institute Visit

Children explore the world of research

mTOR on the Move

November 22, 2024

Demetriades Drugs Press release

Location-specific functions and regulation of mTORC1 in cells

Job Offers

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

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Therapy responses in B cell Lymphomas are determined by regulation of Macrophages in the Lymphoma Microenvironment"

May 27, 2025 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

MPI for Biology of Ageing, Room: Auditorium

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MPI AGE seimnar: The genomics of rapid adaptation

May 5, 2025 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Mark C. Bitter

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Role of late endosomal autophagy-dependent secretion in Parkinson’s disease and glioblastoma"

May 8, 2025 from 01:00 PM to 02:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Thierry Galli

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Therapy responses in B cell Lymphomas are determined by regulation of Macrophages in the Lymphoma Microenvironment"

May 27, 2025 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Christian Pallasch, Department I of Internal Medicine, Translational Research for Infectious Diseases and Oncology (TRIO)

Open Day 2025

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

Cologne Graduate School of Ageing Research

Cologne Children's University at the MPI

mTOR on the Move

Career

Job Offers

5 Master Fellowships

What We Offer

Education

Diversity

Events

Tag der offenen Tür "Stoffwechsel und Altern: Forschung für ein langes und gesundes Leben"

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

Pint of Science "Doctor Who?!: Von Zellalterung, Gehirnforschung und unserem biologischen Alter"

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Therapy responses in B cell Lymphomas are determined by regulation of Macrophages in the Lymphoma Microenvironment"

MPI AGE seimnar: The genomics of rapid adaptation

Cologne Seminars on Ageing "Role of late endosomal autophagy-dependent secretion in Parkinson’s disease and glioblastoma"

Tag der offenen Tür "Stoffwechsel und Altern: Forschung für ein langes und gesundes Leben"

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

Pint of Science "Doctor Who?!: Von Zellalterung, Gehirnforschung und unserem biologischen Alter"

Biomedical Seminars Cologne "Therapy responses in B cell Lymphomas are determined by regulation of Macrophages in the Lymphoma Microenvironment"