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ERC Consolidator Grant for our member Arthur Liesz

9 Dec 2025 | News | Award

Our member Arthur Liesz has been awarded a Consolidator Grant by the European Research Council for his ERC project TRAINED (The Role of Trained Immunity in Brain-Body Communication and Secondary…

SyNergize 2025: Energizing our early-career researchers

8 Dec 2025 | News | Event Recap

Our PhD and Postdoc Representatives, along with a small team of early-career researchers, successfully brought together nearly 100 SyNergy researchers for our first internal conference, SyNergize.…

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SyNergy members among the world’s most influential researchers

12 Nov 2025 | News | Award

The latest analysis of publications places three SyNergy members among the most successful in their chosen field. 

Research Spotlight

Using PET-imaging to detect cortical synapse loss in multiple sclerosis

9 Oct 2025 | Research Spotlight

The standard method for diagnosing multiple sclerosis (MS) is magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), which primarily identifies damage to the brain's white matter. However, synapse loss in gray matter is…

Podcast

57 Clusters of Excellence, 1 podcast. This episode of “Exzellent erklärt - Spitzenforschung für alle” focuses on our research with Thomas Misgeld and Anna-Sophia Wahl. Topics include research into common neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's, multiple sclerosis and stroke, the self-healing powers of the brain and the Cluster's interdisciplinary approach. Current advances in repair mechanisms, the importance of neuronal plasticity and the use of modern technologies such as AI for research are discussed.

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The Cluster of Excellence SyNergy (Munich Cluster for Systems Neurology) investigates how complex neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease, stroke, or multiple sclerosis develop. Even though these diseases differ significantly in their clinical manifestations, overlapping mechanisms are involved in their development. Using systems neurology as a new interdisciplinary approach, researchers can better map the processes involved in neurovascular, neurodegenerative, and neuroimmunological diseases and develop approaches for novel therapies. The cluster has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) since 2012.