Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing

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The Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing in Cologne is a basic-research institute of the Max Planck Society, founded in 2007-2008, whose mission is to understand the natural ageing process and how to intervene against age-related disease. Its researchers use nematodes, fruit flies, mice and the African turquoise killifish, as well as clinical samples. Three departments are currently listed: Molecular Genetics of Ageing (Adam Antebi), Mitochondrial Proteostasis (Thomas Langer) and Neurobiology of Ageing (Anne Schaefer, managing director), alongside eleven research laboratories and several associated groups. Founding director Linda Partridge's department ran from 2008 to 2023. The institute is part of a regional ageing-research network with the University of Cologne's CECAD Cluster of Excellence and the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research, together with the Bonn-based Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior and DZNE (German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases), and states an aim of linking basic findings to clinical research.

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• publication Hexosamine pathway metabolites enhance protein quality control and prolong life (Denzel et al., Cell) ↗ 2014
• publication Small nucleoli are a cellular hallmark of longevity (Tiku et al., Nat Commun) ↗ 2017
• publication Regulation of the one carbon folate cycle as a shared metabolic signature of longevity (Annibal et al., Nat Commun) ↗ 2021
• publication Decreased spliceosome fidelity and egl-8 intron retention inhibit mTORC1 signaling to promote longevity (Huang et al., Nat Aging) ↗ 2022
• publication Stress-induced OMA1 activation and autocatalytic turnover regulate OPA1-dependent mitochondrial dynamics (Baker et al./Langer, EMBO J) ↗ 2014
• publication Long-lasting geroprotection from brief rapamycin treatment in early adulthood by persistently increased intestinal autophagy (Juricic et al./Partridge, Nat Aging) ↗ 2022
• publication Mitochondria shed their outer membrane in response to infection-induced stress (Li et al./Pernas, Science) ↗ 2022

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No institute-level budget or grant total found on age.mpg.de as of 2026-09-24. The Max Planck Society states it is largely publicly funded by the German federal and state governments (about-us page); no institute-specific figure was disclosed.

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