Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt (GmbH), also known as Helmholtz Munich, is a member of the
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
The Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (german: Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft Deutscher Forschungszentren) is the largest scientific organisation in Germany. It is a union of 18 scientific-technical and biological-medical research centers. ...
. It was founded in 1960 and is a joint venture by the
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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and
Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home.
Mission
The mission of Helmholtz Munich is to find new personalized medical solutions for the prevention, diagnosis and therapy of environmentally triggered diseases to promote a healthier society in a rapidly changing world.
Management
Prof. Dr. H. Matthias Tschöp has been the Scientific Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Center since 2018.
In 2019
Kerstin Günther
Kerstin Günther (born 1967) is a German business executive. Since 1991, she has held management positions in the Deutsche Telekom Group where in March 2012 she was appointed Senior Vice President Technology Europe, reporting to Claudia Nemat, bo ...
joined the Center and is now the Chief Financial and Technology Officer.
Campus
The main campus is located in Neuherberg, a district of
Oberschleißheim
Oberschleißheim () is a Municipalities of Germany, municipality in the Munich (district), district of Munich, in Bavaria, Germany. It is located 13 km north of Munich (centre). As of 2005 it had a population of 11,467.
Oberschleißheim is ...
, right outside of
Munich
Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...
’s city borders. The campus has a size of 52.3 hectares. In addition, the Center maintains research facilities inside the city area of Munich, Augsburg, Tübingen, Hanover, Dresden and Leipzig.
Legal form
Helmholtz Zentrum München is a limited liability company according to German law and is financed by a ratio of 90:10 by its two shareholders, the Federal Government and the Free State of Bavaria.
Research focus
The Center focuses its research on five key areas:
* Metabolic Health
* Environmental Health
* Molecular Targets and Therapies
* Cell Programming and Repair
* Bioengineering and Digital Health
Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC)
HPC is an innovation campus where young investigators research for novel solutions in the fields of biomedical sciences, engineering and digitization in the research environment of Helmholtz Munich.
Translational and clinical projects
Translational research approaches at the Center are developed in cooperation with clinical partners:
* Diabetes Study Center
* Comprehensive Pneumology Center
* Center of Allergy and Environment
Career development
The Center has one Helmholtz Graduate School (HELENA) in cooperation with the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...
(LMU) and the
Technical University Munich
The Technical University of Munich (TUM or TU Munich; german: Technische Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It specializes in engineering, technology, medicine, and applied and natural sciences.
Establis ...
(TUM), and five Helmholtz Research Schools. The schools offer doctoral students in-depth research in the fields of diabetes, lung and radiation research, epigenetics and data science:
*
Helmholtz Graduate School Environmental Health
The Helmholtz Graduate School Environmental Health (HELENA), located in Neuherberg north of Munich, was opened on November 1, 2010. It is a joint initiative for the promotion of doctoral students of the Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Researc ...
(HELENA)
* International Helmholtz Research School for Diabetes
EpiCrossBorders: International Helmholtz-Edinburgh Research School for Epigenetics* CPC-Research School Lung Biology and Disease
* Helmholtz Research School of Radiation Science
* Munich School for Data Science
References
External links
Official website
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Medical research institutes in Germany
Medical and health organisations based in Bavaria