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

Nicolas Battich

PI "Quantitative Cell Biology"

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We strive to understand how genomes coordinate transcription within the context of nuclear organization to guide complex developmental decisions. We create novel tools and approaches for single-cell biology.

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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Matthias Meier Bioscience

Pioneer Campus,

New Platform Tracks Insulin Secretion in Real Time

Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and Leipzig University jointly develop a bioelectronic method to assess stem cell–derived islets more precisely and efficiently.

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

Stem Cells, IES, Computational Health, ICB, Bioengineering, IBMI, Pioneer Campus,

Three Helmholtz Munich Researchers Elected to Bavarian Academy

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,…

Helmholtz Biomedical Engineering Initiative

AI, Transfer, Bioengineering, IBMI, Pioneer Campus,

Helmholtz Biomedical Engineering Initiative: Shaping the Future of Health

The Helmholtz Association is launching a nationwide biomedical engineering initiative to accelerate technology development and transfer activities. Led by its established Health Centers, “Helmholtz Biomedical Engineering” brings together cutting-edge…

Jian Cui, Cui Lab, PI
Hintergrund: HDC Foyer

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

Pioneer Campus,

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?

Podcasts Series

Publications

2026 in
In: (23rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, ISBI 2026, 8-11 April 2026, London). 2026. ( ; 2026-April)

Liu, Y. ; Ma, R. ; Navab, N. ; Cui, J. ; Peng, T.

CURVFUSE: Field-Curvature-Aware Multi-Focus Fusion for Bioluminescence Imaging.
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 148, 23530-23539 (2026)

Liu, Y. ; Arus, B.A. ; Mishra, K. ; Wang, T. ; Zhang, K. ; Luciano, M.P. ; Bandi, V.G. ; Kumar, A. ; Guo, Z. ; Guan, Y. ; Bick, M.J. ; Xu, M. ; Lingg, J.G.P. ; Bae, J. ; Kang, A. ; Gerben, S.R. ; Bera, A.K. ; Vaughan, J.C. ; Manton, J.D. ; Derivery, E. ; Schnermann, M.J. ; Stiel, A.-C. ; Bruns, O.T. ; Xu, C. ; Baker, D.

De novo design of near-infrared fluorescence-activating proteins.
2026 in
In: (9th International Conference on Medical Imaging with Deep Learning, MIDL 2026, 8-10 July 2026, Chientan). 2026. 3443-3463 ( ; 315)

Sens, D. ; Shilova, L. ; Dalca, A.V. ; Schnabel, J.A. ; Casale, F.P.

GEMCONT: Genetics-based Multimodal Contrastive Learning Enhances Phenotypic embeddings and Boosts Genetic Discovery.

Vercellone, F. ; Kundu, S. ; Esposito, A. ; Chiariello, A.M. ; Conte, M. ; Abraham, A. ; Fontana, A. ; Pierno, F.D. ; Guha, S. ; Carluccio, C.D. ; Olimpo, M. ; Nicodemi, M. ; Casale, F.P. ; Bianco, S.

Physics-based modeling of sparse single-cell Hi-C uncovers structural and epigenetic variability.
Genes Dev. 40, 956-977 (2026)

Shapira, Y. ; Noack, F. ; Vangelisti, S. ; Chong, F. ; Lifshitz, A. ; Tanay, A. ; Bonev, B.

Neural stem cell epigenomes and fate bias are temporally coordinated during mouse cortical development.

Board of Di­rec­tors

Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos

Director of Bioengineering

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Contact

Thomas Schwarz-Romond, PhD, MBA

Director of Operations

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