Bioengineering Center

The Bioengineering Center combines interdisciplinary skills from natural sciences, engineering, and medicine to invent, innovate, and advance technological solutions that enable individualized precision measurements and processing of biological information for the promotion of healthcare. 

The Bioengineering Center combines interdisciplinary skills from natural sciences, engineering, and medicine to invent, innovate, and advance technological solutions that enable individualized precision measurements and processing of biological information for the promotion of healthcare. 

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Our Research Areas

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Novel Biomedical Readouts

We enable novel biomedical readouts by reshaping next-generation hardware and theoretical and algorithmic developments for sensors, imaging and microscopy and by engineering biological contrast using genetically expressed chromo proteins and genetic labels.

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Discovery and Validation

We accelerate discovery and validation by employing advanced observation tools for in vivo sensing, imaging, omics and single-cell processing, with a focus on combining dynamic observations in living systems with functional genomics.

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Clinical Translation

We advance prevention of disease, early detection, advanced diagnostics, improved intervention, and precise therapy monitoring by efficiently translating advanced sensors and imaging systems technology toward clinical use.

Our Mission

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A dynamic web of entities and people working together to foster and advance new ideas, technologies, and solutions.

Transfer, Bioengineering, IBMI, Pioneer Campus,

From Lab Bench to Startup: New Doctorate Program Offers Scientists a Venture-Building Path

Helmholtz Munich is partnering with Deep Science Ventures (DSV) and SPRIND, Germany’s Federal Agency for Disruptive Innovation, to support the Venture Science Doctorate (VSD) – a novel doctoral program designed to train scientists to build…

Esophageal Cancer

New Research Findings, Bioengineering, IBMI,

New Endoscopy Technology Enables Early Detection of Esophageal Cancer

Researchers from Helmholtz Munich, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), and the Medical University of Vienna have developed an advanced imaging technique called "O2E" that allows clinics to detect cancerous lesions in the esophagus with…

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Awards & Grants, Computational Health, ICB, Bioengineering, IBMI, Molecular Targets and Therapeutics, MCD,

Three ERC Proof of Concept Grants for Helmholtz Munich

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich have secured three prestigious Proof of Concept Grants from the European Research Council (ERC). This funding will enable them to advance innovative projects across diverse areas of biomedical research. With a total of…

Multiple Myeloma

New Research Findings, Bioengineering, IBMI,

New Label-Free Imaging Tracks Cancer Treatment in Single Cells

Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich have developed a novel method to track cancer treatment responses in individual cells – without the need for dyes or labels. Their mid-infrared optoacoustic microscopy (MiROM)…

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New Research Findings, Bioengineering, Pioneer Campus,

New Microscope Brings Glowing Cells into Focus

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich have developed a new microscope that significantly improves how bioluminescent signals in living cells can be observed. The system, known as QIScope, is built around a highly…

CRISPR gene editing

AI, New Research Findings, Bioengineering, ISBM,

Engineering Smart Delivery for Gene Editors

A research team from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich has developed an advanced delivery system that transports gene-editing tools based on the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing system into living cells with significantly greater…

Recent Publications

In: (28th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2025, 23-27 September 2025, Daejeon). 2026. 653-662 (Lect. Notes Comput. Sc. ; 15961 LNCS)

Duelmer, F. ; Azampour, M.F. ; Wysocki, M. ; Navab, N.

UltraRay: Introducing Full-Path Ray Tracing in Physics-Based Ultrasound Simulation.
Nat. Bio. Eng., DOI: 10.1038/s41551-025-01462-0 (2025)

Li, Q. ; Ali, Z. ; Zakian, C. ; Di Pietro, M. ; Honing, J. ; O'Donovan, M. ; Flisikowski, K. ; Sarantos, V. ; Pierre, G. ; Gloriod, J. ; Drexler, W. ; Ntziachristos, V.

Tethered optoacoustic and optical coherence tomography capsule endoscopy for label-free assessment of Barrett's oesophageal neoplasia.
J. Proteome Res. 24, 5116–5126 (2025)

Phlairaharn, T. ; Shannon, A.E. ; Zeng, X. ; Truong, D.J.J. ; Schoof, E.M. ; Ye, Z. ; Searle, B.C.

Improving proteomic dynamic range with Multiple Accumulation Precursor Mass Spectrometry. 
npj Imaging 3:49 (2025)

Gehmeyr, M. ; Rojas López, M.B. ; Nitkunanantharajah, S. ; Preissl, H. ; Vosseler, A. ; Jumpertz von Schwartzenberg, R. ; Birkenfeld, A.L. ; Katsouli, N. ; Fasoula, N. ; Karlas, A. ; Kallmayer, M. ; Ziegler, A.-G. ; Jüstel, D. ; Ntziachristos, V.

Enhanced maximum intensity projection (eMIP) for improving the fidelity of optoacoustic images.
npj Metab. Health Dis. 3:42 (2025)

Latic, N. ; Lari, A. ; Sun, N. ; Zupcic, A. ; Oubounyt, M. ; Falivene, J. ; Buck, A. ; Hofer, M. ; Chang, W. ; Kuebler, W.M. ; Baumbach, J. ; Walch, A. ; Grabner, A. ; Erben, R.G.

Deletion of cardiac fibroblast growth factor-23 beneficially impacts myocardial energy metabolism in left ventricular hypertrophy.

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Thomas Schwarz-Romond, PhD, MBA

Director of Operations, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus