Springer Nature celebrated Cell and Tissue Research’s 100th year of publication with a special anniversary issue Editorial by Horst-Werner Korf and colleagues

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Prof. Dr. med. Horst-Werner Korf, Director of the Institute of Anatomy II at the University of Frankfurt from 1990 to 2017 and member of the board of the Anatomische Gesellschaft from 2006 to 2009, was awarded the Editor of Distinction Awards 2025 in the categories “Author Service” and “Editorial Contribution” for his outstanding and long-standing […]

Noran Abdel Wadood, Monika I. Hollenhorst und Mohamed Ibrahem Elhawy (equally contributing first authors)from the research lab of Prof. Gabriela Krasteva-Christ, Institute of Anatomy und Cell Biology at the Saarland University, Homburg as well as their co-authors have been awarded the Quarterly Publication Award (QPA) I/2025 of the Anatomische Gesellschaft for their study Tracheal tuft […]

EFEM would like to draw your attention to its annual travel grant. The criteria are listed at the bottom of this page. Up-to-date information can also be found on the EFEM website. Applications for 2026 will open on September 15, 2025 and close on November 15, 2025.

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Research groups led by Prof. Jochen Staiger (Göttingen) and Prof. Johannes Vogt (Cologne) receive Best Publication Awards 2023 and 2024 of the Anatomische Gesellschaft A jury of nine scientists of the Anatomical Society has selected the best scientific publication of the year from all the winners of the Quarterly Publication Awards in 2023 and 2024. […]

Irp1 is essential for spermatogenesis independent of its function in iron metabolism Dr. Aileen Harrer from the research lab of Prof. Andreas Meinhardt, Institute of Anatomy and Cell Biology, at the University of Giessen has been awarded the Quarterly Publication Award (QPA) IV/2024 of the Anatomische Gesellschaft for their study Iron regulatory protein 1-deficient mice […]

Compartment-based Anatomy of the Pelvis Revisited Dr. Sigmar Stelzner from the Department of Visceral, Transplantation, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at Leipzig University Hospital and Dr. Tillmann Heinze from the Center for Clinical Anatomy at the Institute of Anatomy at Kiel University (Director: Prof. Dr. Thilo Wedel) as well as an interdisciplinary team of co-authors have […]

The Quarterly Publication Award (QPA) III/2024 from the Anatomische Gesellschaft has been awarded to Dr. Oliver Tüscher, Prof. Dr. Johannes Vogt and coworkers involved in this study for their publication on the regulation of mental disorders with enzyme inhibitors published in Molecular Psychiatry. The study describes a connection between synaptic lipid signals in the brain […]