Projects funded by our Supporting Members
Beyond the annual dues, our Supporting Members each year give to a featured project that would otherwise not be in the realm of realization. Hereby, they strikingly underline their relation to the Max Planck Society. We are honored to present you a selection of past projects here.
A team of scientists seeks to develop new technologies that will allow to detect and combat even hard-to-diagnose cancer types in large-scale screenings at an early stage.
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Together with local actors, this project focused on the history of science on the African continent in order to understand and appreciate it as an independent production site of scientific knowledge.
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With donations from our
Supporting Members, a research team plans to develop a process for the energy-saving recycling of polyamides, the basis of synthetic fibers.
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With their donations, the
Supporting Members enable an interdisciplinary large-scale project that examines the connection between climate change, microbes, mosquitoes and infectious diseases.
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By funding a high-performance radar, the
Supporting Members significantly contributed to a unique field campaign aiming at a better understanding on how precipitation and clouds evolve above the tropical North Atlantic.
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For the first time the
Supporting Members donate a prize: The Max Planck Cambridge Prize for International Law.
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The history of milk and humankind: the donations of the year 2017 enabled an exciting project on the history of the development of dairy products and their effects on the human genome.
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According to the World Health Organization, almost 40 million people around the globe are affected by HIV, and more than one million suffer death due to AIDS per year. A promising research project was set up, aiming for better understanding of the resistancies and adaptation mechanisms of the HI-virus.
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Worldwide researchers investigate the characteristics of potentially interesting, but still unkown materials. With this project, the Fritz-Haber-Institute establishes the NoMaD (Novel Materials Discovery) Repository to host, organize, and share this materials knowledge in an open access database, a potential yet to be tapped.
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