Ralf H. Adams new director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine

Biochemist Ralf H. Adams is appointed third director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine and head of the new department "Tissue Morphogenesis"

As of now, Ralf H. Adams is the new and third director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine. He now completes the institute in Münster. His new department "Tissue Morphogenesis" will be involved with the question of how cell make tissue. Mr. Adams continues his work from the London Research Institute of Cancer Research UK. Besides being appointed as director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine, Mr. Adams was appointed as professor at the Westphalian Wilhelms-University of Münster. The first colleagues in the new department will start their research in the beginning of 2008. In summer next year, the remaining colleagues of his laboratory will move from London into the Max Planck Institute, when the research will resume at full volume.