The Center for Medical Genome Research in Berlin was officially opened last week. A joint project between the Max Delbrueck Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Leibniz-Institut fuer Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP), the €19 million research center focuses on the identification of origins of disease and search for novel therapeutics using genome research. Located within the building is the Gene Mapping Center and the "Protein Structure Factory", both part of the German Human Genome Poject funded by the German Research Ministry.

The new center has been named after the famous Russian geneticist Nikolai Wladimirovich Timoféeff-Ressovsky.

See the complete news article covering the inauguration from the MedicalNewsToday.