Awards & Grants

EASD 2026 - Award Anette-Gabriele Ziegler

Three scientists from Helmholtz Munich and the German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD) were honored with prestigious awards at the annual meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) from September 28 to October 2, 2026, in…

Timo Müller, Director of the Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (IDO) at Helmholtz Munich and Professor at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), has received the 2026 Gill Transformative Investigator Award. With this distinction, the Gill…

Daniel Kotlarz, group leader at the Institute of Translational Genomics at Helmholtz Munich and Heisenberg Professor of Precision Medicine of Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases at LMU University Hospital Munich receives around 600,000 Euros…

FEBS|EMBO Women in Science Prize for Eleftheria Zeggini

Prof. Eleftheria Zeggini has been awarded the FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027 for her pioneering contributions to human genomics and the translation of large-scale genetic discoveries into biological and clinical insights, alongside her…

Dr. Reid Alderson from the Institute of Structural Biology and the Institute of Computational Biology at Helmholtz Munich has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Through the Protein-DANCE project, he will develop a new…

Dr. Marcel Binz from the Institute for Human-Centered AI at Helmholtz Munich has received a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). Through the MIDAS project, he will develop large-scale computational models designed to simulate,…

Awards & Grants

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Triple Recognition for Diabetes Research at Helmholtz Munich

Timo Müller Receives 2026 Gill Transformative Investigator Award

Funding to Advance Precision Medicine for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children

Eleftheria Zeggini Receives FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027

Reid Alderson Receives ERC Starting Grant for Protein-DANCE

Marcel Binz Receives ERC Starting Grant for MIDAS