The Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research Thomas Rachel, along with a delegation and the German Ambassador Bernhard Graf von Waldersee, visited the IBioBA.

He met with Director Dr. Eduardo Arzt and Dr. Philippe Bastiaens, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Physiology in Dortmund, who is at the IBioBA due to collaborations between the Institutes.

They had also the opportunity to meet two young Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany, that are establishing their research groups at IBioBA.