| Name | Departure | New position | Destination |
| Althaus, Christian | | Research Group Leader | University of Bern, Switzerland |
| Anaya, Victor | 2012 | Postdoc | somewhere in Mexico |
| Appelby, Peter | 2008 | Postdoc | |
| Arndt, Joerg | | Professor | |
| Assmus, Heike | | Postdoc | MDC Berlin, Germany |
| Axmacher, Nikolai | | Research Group Leader | University of Bochum, Germany |
| Axmann, Ilka | | Junior Professor | University of Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Barin, Laura | | PhD Student | University of Zürich, Switzerland |
| Becker-Weimann, Sabine | | Postdoc | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA |
| Beirer, Stephan | | | GAI NetConsult GmbH |
| Benda, Jan | | Professor | University of Tübingen, Germany |
| Bentele, Kajetan | 2013 | Postdoc | Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel |
| Bergmann, Urs | 2013 | | Zalando SE |
| Berkes, Pietro | | Postdoc | Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA |
| Bernard, Samuel | | Research Associate | Université Claude Bernard, Lyon, France |
| Beule, Dieter | 2001 | | BIH, Berlin, Germany |
| Blaschke, Tobias | 2005 | Postdoc | Industry |
| Boit, Alice | 2003 | Postdoc | PIK Potsdam, Germany |
| Bossan, Benjamin | 2013 | Postdoc | Industry |
| Bozek, Kasia | | Postdoc | MPI for Informatics, Saarbrücken, Germany |
| Brettschneider, Christian | 2011 | Postdoc | |
| Bunke, Ullrich | | | |
| Busse, Dorothea | 2011 | Postdoc | Group of Jana Wolf, MDC Berlin, Germany |
| Cajavec, Branka (jetzt Bernard) | 2006 | Postdoc | |
| Chauhan, Anuradha | 2011 | Postdoc | University of Rostock |
| Chaurasia, Gautam | 2008 | Postdoc | Industry |
| Cremers, Daniel | 1999 | Professor | TU München, Germany |
| Creutzig, Felix | 2008 | Research Group Leader | TU Berlin, Germany |
| Diester, Ilka | | Professor | University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Dobrzynski, Maciej | 2009 | Postdoc | Systems Biology Ireland, University College Dublin, Ireland |
| Dreyer, Frauke | | | |
| Durek, Pawel | 2013 | Postdoc | DRFZ, Berlin, Germany |
| Erchova, Irina | | Postdoc | Cardiff University, UK |
| Erzberger, Anna | 2012 | | |
| Faust, Karoline | 2007 | | Katholische Universität Leuven, Netherlands |
| Fernández Galán, Roberto | | Assistant Professor | Department of Neurosciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Ohio |
| Fritsche, Raphaela | 2013 | Postdoc | MDC Berlin, Germany |
| Figueiredo, Ana Sofia | 2010 | Postdoc | University of Magdeburg, Germany |
| Flor, Matthias | 2014 | Postdoc | Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung Berlin, Germany |
| Franzius, Matthias | 2008 | Postdoc | Industry |
| Futschik, Matthias | 2008 | | Portugal |
| Gaub, Sebastian | | | |
| Gebert, Katja | 2004 | | |
| Gebhardt, Marie | 2009 | | |
| Geier, Florian | 2006 | | |
| Glauser, Samuel | 2008 | Postdoc | Industry |
| Glomb, Katharina | 2011 | | |
| Gonze, Didier | 2007 | Postdoc | Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium |
| Gollisch Tim | 2007 | Professor | University of Göttingen, Germany |
| Gottstein, Willi | 2015 | | |
| Granada, Adrian | 2012 | Postdoc | Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Große, Ivo | 1999 | Professor | University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany |
| Gundlfinger, Anja | 2015 | Research Scientist | Hoffmann - La Roche, Basel, Switzerland |
| Hagen, Edward | 2007 | Professor | Washington State University Vancouver, Canada |
| Hatzikirou, Haralambos | | | TU Dresden, Germany |
| Heise, Robert | | | |
| Heissner, Uwe | | | |
| Herding, Jan | 2012 | PhD student | FU Berlin, Germany |
| Herz, Andreas | 2008 | Professor | LMU München, Germany |
| Hilgenböcker, Kirsten | 2009 | Postdoc | Industry |
| Hoffmann, Sabrina | 2015 | Postdoc | Thüringen, Germany |
| Holste, Dirk | | Postdoc | Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria |
| Jaramillo Jorge | 2015 | Postdoc | Columbia University, New York, USA |
| Juerchott, Karsten | | | |
| Jungkamp, Anna-Carina | 2014 | Consultant | BMBF, Berlin, Germany |
| Kamm, Florian | 2008 | | |
| Kensche, Philip | | | |
| Khadra, Anmar | | | Canada |
| Kielbasa, Szymon | | Assistant Professor | Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum, Leiden, Netherlands |
| Kirsch, Roland | | | |
| Klipp, Edda | 1997 | Professor | Institute for Biology, HU Berlin, Germany |
| Koehncke, Arnulf | 2013 | Postdoc | World Wildlife Found Berlin, Germany |
| Kollmann, Markus | 2010 | Professor | University of Düsseldorf, Germany |
| Korbel, Jan | 2001 | Postdoc | EMBL, Heidelberg, Germany |
| Korencic, Anja | 2013 | Postdoc | Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Kowald, Axel | 2001 | Postdoc | Group of Edda Klipp, HU Berlin, Germany |
| Kreck, Gunther | | | Industry |
| Kumar, Lokesh | | | |
| Landgraf, Tim | | | |
| Larsen, Peter | | | |
| Lee, Yu-Hien | 2014 | | Göttingen, Germany |
| Legewie, Stefan | 2009 | Postdoc | IMB Mainz, Germany |
| Legewie, Stefan | | | |
| Leibold, Christian | | Professor | LMU München, Germany |
| Levitin, Lev | | | |
| Lohse, Daniel | | | |
| Lorenzen, Stephan | | | |
| Luganska, Tatjana | | | |
| Machens, Christian | 2001 | Research Group Leader | Centro Champalimaud – Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown, Lissabon, Portugal |
| Mariani, Luca | 2013 | Postdoc | Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| Matthäus, Franziska | 2001? | Postdoc | University of Heidelberg, Germany |
| Moenke, Gregor | 2014 | Postdoc | Heidelberg, Germany |
| Monreal, Simone | 2006 | Postdoc | |
| Moisel, Marion | 2006 | | |
| Müller, Roland | 1999 | Postdoc | Industry |
| Neubauer, Juergen | 2003 | Associate Professor | David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Papadakis, Konstantinos | 2014 | | |
| Parikh, Jignesh | 2009 | Postdoc | Gene Network Sciences Inc. |
| Rauer, Michael | | | |
| Reuter, Robert | | | |
| Riede, Tobias | 2000 | Associated Professor | Midwestern University at Downers Grove, Illinois, USA |
| Ritz, Raphael | 2007 | Postdoc | Max Planck Institute of Plasma Physics, Garching, Germany |
| Santi, Fabian | 2011 | | Industry |
| Schaette, Roland | 2008 | Lecturer | University College London, UK |
| Schieg, Patrick | | | |
| Schmidt, Robert | 2010 | Research Group Leader | University of Freiburg, Germany |
| Schmitt, Armin | | | |
| Schuchhardt, Johannes | | | Founder of Microdiscovery |
| Schulz, Edda | 2010 | Research Group Leader | MPI for Molecular Genetics, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany |
| Schütze, Hartmut | 2004 | Postdoc | Magdeburg, Germany |
| Schwartz, William | | | |
| Seidel, Henrik | 1998 | Postdoc | |
| Sprekeler, Henning | 2014 | Professor | TU Berlin, Germany |
| Steinecke, Ina | | | |
| Stemmler, Martin | 2009 | Postdoc | LMU München, Germany |
| Swat, Maciej | 2006 | Postdoc | Indiana University, Indiana, USA |
| Teichmann, Jan | | | |
| Telenczuk, Bartosz | 2013 | Postdoc | CNRS, Gif-sur-Yvette, France |
| Telschow, Arndt | 2004 | Professor | University of Münster, Germany |
| Thurley, Kay | 2006 | Postoc | LMU München, Germany |
| Thurley, Kevin | 2014 | Postdoc | USA |
| Upadhyay, Abhishek | 2020 | Research Associate | University of Cambridge, UK |
| Völkl, Bernhard | 2012 | Postdoc | The Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology, University of Oxford, UK |
| Vowinkel, Alexander | | | |
| Waltermann, Christian | | | Group of Edda Klipp, HU Berlin, Germany |
| Weiss, Olaf | | | Science Manager |
| Wilbert, Nico | 2010 | Postdoc | Industry |
| Wilden, Inka | | | |
| Wiskott, Laurenz | 2009 | Professor | University of Bochum, Germany |
| Wolf, Jana | 2003 | Postdoc | MDC Berlin, Germany |
| Wolsky, Eryc | | | |
| Zaccarelli, Riccardo | 2008 | Postdoc | |
| Zemke, Marco | 2010 | Employee | Institute for Informatics, HU Berlin, Germany |
| Zemlin, Christian | | Assistant Professor | Old Dominion University, Norfolk, USA |
| Zito, Tiziano | 2015 | Postdoc | Kernforschungszentrum Jülich, Germany |