The Helmholtz PioneerCampus

The Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC) is an innovation campus with a startup culture at Helmholtz Munich. The Pioneer Campus stands for the intelligent fusion of biomedical sciences, engineering, and digitization. Teams of top scientific talents from around the world collaborate on developing novel solutions that make a difference in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. The Pioneer Campus aspires to the values of Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-*1894), a physician, physicist, polymath, and science pioneer. 

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The Helmholtz Pioneer Campus (HPC) is an innovation campus with a startup culture at Helmholtz Munich. The Pioneer Campus stands for the intelligent fusion of biomedical sciences, engineering, and digitization. Teams of top scientific talents from around the world collaborate on developing novel solutions that make a difference in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases. The Pioneer Campus aspires to the values of Hermann von Helmholtz (1821-*1894), a physician, physicist, polymath, and science pioneer. 

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Our Mission

Principal Investigators

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Nicolas Battich

PI "Quantitative Cell Biology"

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Francesco Paolo Casale

PI "Systems Genetics and Machine Learning", Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Jian Cui

PI "The nanoPROBE lab", Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Marion Jasnin

PI "The Cryoskeleton Lab", Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Matthias Meier

PI "Bioengineering and Microfluidics", Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Janna Nawroth

PI "Mechanobiology Lab", Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Dr. Lara Urban

PI "One Health"

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PioneerCampus Alumni

Building 36.30

Our new Building

The Pioneer Campus has begun the next chapter and has moved into the new building. Discover the unique concept and design of the new Pioneer Campus.

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News

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Awards & Grants, Pioneer Campus,

Jian Cui Wins Prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant

Dr. Jian Cui, principal investigator at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus, has been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant for his project PhotonSignaling. As part of Helmholtz Munich’s innovation hub, Cui belongs to a generation of “Pioneers” turning bold…

Abbildung Nature Materials Paper Marion Jasnin

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Creating lipid-like structures with DNA origami

In collaboration with Prof. Friedrich Simmel’s lab at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Helmholtz Pioneer Campus PI Dr Marion Jasnin and her postdoc Dr Brice Beinsteiner imaged self-assembled containers made from DNA origami building blocks…

Single Cell Symposium Ötztal Oktober 2025

Pioneer Campus,

From Cells to Systems: A Vibrant Exchange of Ideas in Biomedical Science

What happens when leading minds from imaging, -omics, and AI come together to rethink how we study cells?

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Awards & Grants, Pioneer Campus,

Supporting Creative Science: Janna Nawroth Awarded VW Night Science Grant

Dr. Janna Nawroth, Principal Investigator at the Helmholtz Pioneer Campus at Helmholtz Munich, has been awarded a grant from the VolkswagenStiftung’s Night Science Initiative, a program designed to foster creativity as a driver of scientific…

Figure 2 eLife Paper Marion Jasnin

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Toroids Take Center Stage in Bacterial Cytokinesis

A flexible protein crosslinker reshapes our understanding of how cells divide.

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AI, Featured Publication, Pioneer Campus,

Using AI and DNA Signals to Detect Living Microbes

A research team at Helmholtz Munich and Helmholtz AI, led by Prof. Lara Urban, has demonstrated that artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to distinguish between living and dead microorganisms by analysing raw data signal from nanopore DNA…

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Publications

Nat. Mater., DOI: 10.1038/s41563-025-02418-0 (2025)

Karfusehr, C. ; Eder, M. ; Yang, H.Y. ; Beinsteiner, B. ; Jasnin, M. ; Simmel, F.C.

Self-assembled cell-scale containers made from DNA origami membranes.
Genome Res. 35, 2682-2690 (2025)

Nappi, A. ; Shilova, L. ; Karaletsos, T. ; Cai, N. ; Casale, F.P.

BayesRVAT enhances rare-variant association testing through Bayesian aggregation of functional annotations.
Stem Cell Res. Ther. 16:573 (2025)

Klassen, M.C. ; Balázs, A. ; Zöllner, J. ; Cleve, N. ; Czichon, L. ; von Schledorn, L. ; Hegermann, J. ; Nawroth, J. ; Roth, D. ; Mielenz, M. ; Hedtfeld, S. ; Stanke, F. ; Rubil, T. ; Ius, F. ; Jonigk, D. ; Hanrahan, J.W. ; Ruhparwar, A. ; Olmer, R. ; Mall, M.A. ; Merkert, S. ; Martin, U.

Human induced pluripotent stem cells for in vitro modeling of impaired mucociliary clearance in cystic fibrosis lung disease.
Allergy, DOI: 10.1111/all.70121 (2025)

Korkmaz, R.Ü. ; Omony, J. ; Tan, X. ; Klotz, M. ; Dragunas, G. ; Chen, S. ; Shankhwar, S. ; Ertüz, Z. ; Müller, C. ; Ragab, M. ; Jeridi, A. ; Augustin, R. ; Nawroth, J. ; Kapellos, T. ; Rankl, B. ; Yildirim, A.Ö. ; von Mutius, E.

The therapeutic potential of farm dust extracts in a mouse model of eosinophilic inflammation.
Z. Gastroenterol. 63, e452 - e452 (2025)

Neckermann, L. ; Erdösi, P. ; Zhang, L. ; Assum, I. ; Dropmann, A. ; Alaoua, S. ; Büttner, M. ; Lin, T. ; Gerstner, M. ; Ebert, M.P. ; Bantel, H. ; Dooley, S. ; Kluth, A. ; Menden, M.P. ; Martinez Jimenez, C.P. ; Hammad, S.

Preclinical evaluation of human ABCB5+ skin-derived stem cells reveals regenerative mechanisms and prognostic markers in a novel ACLF mouse model.

Board of Di­rec­tors

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Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos

Director of Bioengineering, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Prof. Dr. Maria Elena Torres Padilla

Director of Biomedicine, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Prof. Dr. Dr. Fabian Theis

Director of Biomedical AI

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Thomas Schwarz-Romond, PhD, MBA

Director of Operations, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus

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Thomas Schwarz-Romond, PhD, MBA

Director of Operations, Helmholtz Pioneer Campus