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The Fascination of Research on Tour: The MS Wissenschaft kicks off its tour in Berlin with Federal Minister Bär – featuring the LOEWE exhibit "In Search of the Magic Bullet"
On May 7, this year’s tour of the MS Wissenschaft started in Berlin. During a press conference held shortly before 11:00 a.m., Dorothee Bär – Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Space – and Walter Rosenthal—President of the German Rectors' Conference and spokesperson for the Alliance of Science Organizations – officially opened the exhibition, which is themed "Medicine of the Future". At 2:00 p.m., the floating science center opened its doors to the general public as well as to guests from the realms of politics and science, including Mathias Hauer, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Research, Technology and Space, and Albert Sickmann from the Leibniz Institute for Analytical Sciences (ISAS).
Joining the tour – with 36 stops across Germany, Austria, and, for the first time, Poland – is Exhibit No. 7, titled "In Search of the Magic Bullet". This exhibit was created through a collaborative effort involving several LOEWE research projects and ProLOEWE. On-site, the exhibit was presented by LOEWE Top Professor Katharina Höfer, alongside Tanja Desch from ProLOEWE. Christof Wegscheid-Gerlach – who played a pivotal role in both the conceptualization and realization of the project –had transported the exhibit from Marburg to Berlin the previous week, together with Jörg Kutsch from the Department of Pharmacy, and had overseen its installation there. Although unable to attend in person, he was present in spirit, sending his very best wishes for the successful launch of Exhibit No. 7.
The interactive exhibit invites visitors to explore the roles played by phages, proteins, bacteria, and RNA in modern anti-pathogen research – particularly in the context of antibiotic resistance – by observing a physical model; in doing so, visitors can gain a deeper understanding of how innovative approaches to combating pathogens actually work. This exhibit was created through a collaboration involving the Marburg School of Pharmacy, the DFG-funded Research Training Group GRK 2937 "Nucleotide Metabolism in Microbes," several LOEWE research projects, and ProLOEWE—the network of LOEWE research initiatives. Special thanks go to Marburg-based colleagues Jörg Kutsch, Aaron Beller (Creativ Space UB), and Rainer Teubner from the Department of Physics’ Precision Mechanical Workshop, who contributed significantly to the successful realization of the exhibit.