
A step forward: Workshop for the “Habitable” board game
A team of young researchers at HITS has received 10,000 euros in the university competition for the Science Year “Our Universe” to …

We congratulate: Poster award for Jannik and Eric!
We happily announce that two of our MBM colleagues have won the poster prize at the Computer Simulation and Theory of …

As they live and breathe – the role of long-chain fatty acids in cellular respiration
Cellular respiration is a complex and highly regulated process that allows cells to draw energy from nutrition. An international team of …

Simulation of transmembrane proteins in lipid environments: not always an easy task
Researchers in the Molecular and Cellular Modeling group (MCM) at HITS have recently released the first parameters of a micelle-forming lipid …

Issue 1 | 2023
This spring, a special project is blossoming: SIMPLAIX, a collaboration of HITS with Heidelberg University and the KIT. The three partner …

ERC Advanced Grant for HITS group leader
Friedrich Röpke, head of the Physics of Stellar Objects group at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, has been awarded …

More than just a game: How long can there be life on Earth?
Researchers at the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) receive 10,000 Euros in the university competition “Our Universe” for developing a board …

Information and prevention: Lynch syndrome is a family story
More and more people develop colorectal cancer at a young age. Every fifth colorectal cancer under 50 has a hereditary cause. The …

12 Months of War
As the first year of the Russian war in Ukraine is coming to a close, we are turning our gaze inwards.

EnzymeML: Surfing the research data wave
In catalytic sciences we face a rapidly increasing volume and complexity of research data, which are a challenge for analysis and …