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Scientists from the fields of physics, biology and medicine will work together at the MPZPM to solve fundamental questions in medicine from a completely new physical perspective.

Nine research groups are already conducting cutting-edge research at the interface of physics and medicine as part of the MPZPM. There remains room for three more independent research groups in the new Erlangen research facility. Young researchers with ERC Starting Grants, ERC Consolidator Grants or DFG Emmy Noether funding can find excellent research conditions and a supportive home at the MPZPM.

The participants of the scientific symposium at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light were given the unique opportunity to present their ideas and scientific expertise to an exclusive audience and the panel of the Finding Symposium at the MPZPM.

The following scientists inspired the numerous audience members in the Russel-Leuchs-Auditorium with their fascinating presentations:

• Eleni Dalaka (IBEC Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia):
  Quantifying mechanical forces with photonic devices
   
• Valerie Doan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
  Lightning up neuroplasticity in the addicted brain
   
• Nicola Galvanetto (University of Zurich):
  Single-molecule biophysics advancing membrane and condensate science and technology
   
• Arindam Ghosh (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg):
  Fluorescence nanoscopy in biology and medicine: Emerging technologies and applications
   
• Siddharth Ghosh (University of Cambridge):
  Sensing and computing with single-molecule motion control in quantum nanofluidics
   
• Lars Hubatsch (Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics):
  Repetitive asymmetric cell division – toward  high-complexity physical models in cell biology
   
• Viola Introini (European Molecular Biology Laboratory Barcelona):
  Biomimetic vascular models to study biophysical aspects of malaria-human interactions
   
• Eva Kreysing (University of Cambridge):
  Optical measurement of cellular forces
   
• Jan Schlegel (Karolinska Institutet):
  From molecules to pandemics: deciphering the biophysical code of host-virus interactions
   
• Florian Schüder (Yale University):
  Development of smart DNA probes for multiplexed super-resolution microscopy
   
• Panagiotis Symvoulidis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
  Microscopy: toward exploiting optical accessible zebrafish and organoid models for translation research
   
• Fabian Voigt (Harvard University):
  Imaging at the speed of life
   
• Kevin Yamauchi (ETH Zurich):
  Biophysics-guided image analysis of tissue architecture
   
• Tianjin Yang (University of Zurich):
  Microfluidics for probing non-equilibrium dynamics with high efficiency and precision

The Max-Planck-Zentrum für Physik und Medizin (MPZPM) is an interdisciplinary joint research center of the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light (MPL), the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen (UKER).