Research Institutes

Munich is a location of international repute for basic research in the field of biomedicine and its clinical application.

• Munich’s two universities have received a further boost following their success in the first call for entries to the Initiative for Excellence of the Federal Government (2006):

• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) with the Faculties of Biology, Chemistry and Pharmacy, Medicine, Physics, the Gene Center and the Munich University Clinic
• Technische Universität München (TUM) with the Faculties of Chemistry, Medicine, Physics, the Weihenstephan Scientific Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment (WZW) and the hospital Klinikum rechts der Isar (MRI)
• The range of study courses offered is rounded off by the Hochschule Weihenstephan-Triesdorf (Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences) and Hochschule München (Munich University of Applied Sciences).

Munich boasts one of the largest concentrations of biological and medical research of the Max Planck Society:

• MPI of Biochemistry
• MPI of Neurobiology
• MPI of Psychiatry

• The Helmholtz Zentrum München – German Research Center for Environmental Health (HMGU) – conducts application-oriented health research

The technology platforms of the Clinical Cooperation Groups (LMU, TUM, Helmholtz Zentrum München) are structure-building components aimed at boosting translational research:

• Immune-monitoring platform in the early clinical study phases
• Molecular imaging Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) for cell therapy
• Antibody platform
• Breeding of immunodeficient and other transgenic mice (German Mouse Clinic)
• Laboratory for functional genome analysis (LAFUGA)
• Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences (MIPS)

Please refer to Helmholtz Zentrum München: www.helmholtz-muenchen.de