 More recently, his lab published highly cited papers about circular RNAs (circRNAs).Very recently, the Rajewsky lab used single-cell methods to molecularly reconstruct animal tissues in space and time, including the lineage tree for an entire animal.His contributions were featured in the journal “Science” as part of the “Breakthrough of the year 2018”

Since 2017, Nikolaus Rajewsky chairs a pan-European consortium that is now called “LifeTime”, co-chaired by Geneviève Almouzni from the Institute Curie.