| Helmholtz Zentrum München - Helmholtz Munich | |
| Native Name: | Helmholtz Zentrum München German Research Center for Environmental Health |
| Native Name Lang: | de |
| Formation: | 1960 |
| Vat Id: | (for European organizations) --> |
| Status: | GmbH |
| Location: | Ingolstädter Landstr. 1, 85764 Neuherberg, Germany |
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| Leader Title: | CEO |
| Leader Name: | Prof. Dr. Matthias H. Tschöp |
| Leader Title2: | CFO and CTO |
| Leader Name2: | Kerstin Günther |
| Staff: | 2546 |
| Staff Year: | 2018 |
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. It was founded in 1960 and is a joint venture by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and Bavarian State Ministry of Finance and Home.
Prof. Dr. H. Matthias Tschöp has been the Scientific Director and chief executive officer of the Center since 2018.In 2019 Kerstin Günther joined the center and is now the Chief Financial and Technology Officer.
The main campus is located in Neuherberg, a district of Oberschleißheim, right outside of Munich’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.[1]
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.
The Center focuses its research on five key areas:
HPC is where young investigators research in the fields of biomedical sciences, engineering and digitization in the research environment of Helmholtz Munich.[2]
Translational research approaches at the center are developed in cooperation with clinical partners:[3]
The center has one Helmholtz Graduate School (HELENA) in cooperation with the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and the Technical University Munich (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: