Bioengineering

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.

Advancing precision healthcare through bioengineering innovation.

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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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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.

Translating advanced imaging for healthcare.

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.

Jian Cui, Cui Lab, PI
Hintergrund: HDC Foyer

Dr. Jian Cui

Head of Research Unit and Principal Investigator, PBT

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Porträt Ali Ertürk
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Hintergrund: HDC Foyer

Dr. Ali Ertürk

Research Director Institute for Intelligent Biotechnologies, iBIO

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Porträt Vasilis Ntziachristos, tuerkis Version 2

Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos

Director of the Institute of Biological and Medical Imaging, Director of the Bioengineering Center, IBMI

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Prof. Dr. med. Axel Karl Walch

Head of Research Unit Analytical Pathology, AAP

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Prof. Dr. Gil Westmeyer

Prof. Dr. Gil Gregor Westmeyer

Director of the Institute for Synthetic Biomedicine, ISBM

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Learn more about our vision and the topics that drive us forward.

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Portrait of Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos

Prof. Vasilis Ntziachristos has been awarded the Future Insight Prize 2026 by Merck. The prize recognizes his pioneering contributions to non-invasive health sensing and is endowed with a research grant of €300,000.

Whole-body 3D reconstructions, AI segmentations and supplementary videos are available via the interactive online atlas at https://discotechnologies.org/MouseMapper/. High-resolution figures and animations are available on request.

Researchers at Helmholtz Munich, the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU) and collaborating institutions have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) framework that maps disease-related changes throughout the entire mouse body at cellular…

Reading Genetic Activity from Living Cells without Destroying Them

Until now, studying the genetic processes in cells required destroying them - making it impossible to observe these processes over extended periods of time. A team from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new…

Lipid Identification: Chemical Fingerprint Instead of Dye

A team at Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has developed a new microscopy technique that can distinguish lipid species in living cells – in particular cholesterol and sphingomyelin – and map them without the need for…

12.07.2023, Neuherberg: Helmholtz Pioneer Campus Opening. Foto: Matthias Balk/Helmholtz Zentrum München

At its most recent plenary session, the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) elected 13 distinguished scholars as new members. Among them are three researchers from Helmholtz Munich: Prof. Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla, Prof. Fabian Theis,…

EMBO Workshop Biomedical Engineering

Biomedical engineering applies engineering principles to address challenges in medicine and biology. To explore ways of strengthening biomedical engineering as a driver of innovation and growth in Europe, EMBO and the Helmholtz Bioengineering…

Schuhmacher, M. ; Gruber, C. ; Lang, C.M.R. ; Ruijpers, R.M.W. ; Mazneykova, L. ; Beinsteiner, B. ; Krus, A. ; Tremmel, B. ; Reinhardt, F. ; Kadletz, K. ; Ma, Z. ; Casalta, L. ; Cambra, J.M. ; Otify, D.Y. ; Balken, I. ; Hetzel, L. ; Merl-Pham, J. ; Dorn, T. ; Luchner, M. ; Bauersachs, L. ; Ganea, K. ; Wieser, N. ; Emrich, A. ; Yağmur, E. ; Rager, K. ; Sagindykova, G. ; Armbrust, N. ; Geilenkeuser, J. ; Westmeyer, G.G. ; Bećirović, E. ; Biel, M. ; Istvánffy, R. ; Weisenhorn, D.M. ; Truong, D.J.J. ; Theis, F.J. ; Ebert, G. ; Moretti, A. ; Ertürk, A. ; Bähr, A. ; Kupatt, C. ; Jasnin, M. ; Klymiuk, N. ; Giesert, F. ; Wurst, W.

Creating bottom-up RNA transfer vehicles from synthetic protein assemblies.

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

Real-time quality control in optoacoustic mesoscopy for enhancing data quality and standardization in clinical studies.

Berger, C. ; Kempa, S. ; Jung, E.M.

Imaging Techniques for Adipose Tissue Analysis.

Guedj, E. ; Beckman, D.

Dopaminergic vulnerability in long COVID: Striatal PET imaging at the brain-body interface.

Ntziachristos, V. ; Schwarz-Romond, T. ; Watt, F.M.

Europe can become a bioengineering powerhouse with these three changes.