(Long) COVID, vaccination efficacy and immune response: European research project ORCHESTRA finds answers – in broad collaboration
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has challenged public health worldwide. The European project ORCHESTRA - Connecting European Cohorts to Increase Common and Effective Response to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic - was launched in December 2020 to unite European knowledge…
Four Helmholtz Munich scientists participate in new DFG CRC/TRR
The German Research Foundation funds a new Collaborative Research Centre (CRC)/Transregio (TRR) which aims at employing regulatory T cells to create the basis for tailor-made immunotherapies. This initiative is an alliance of the University Mainz and…
Matthias Tschöp New Vice President of the Helmholtz Association
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Matthias H. Tschöp has been the Helmholtz Vice President of Health Research since January 2023. His goal is to accelerate the development of new solutions for the health challenges of our time.
Helmholtz Munich scientist Lara Urban has been selected by academics as the Young Scientist of the Year 2022. The academics Young Scientist Award, which is endowed with 5,000 €, honors young scientists who have made lasting advances in their…
Helmholtz AI is a research-driven hub for applied artificial intelligence (AI) and one of five platforms initiated by the Helmholtz Information and Data Science Incubator. Three years after the foundation, Helmholtz AI underwent a review in October…
"A startup can be just as big a success as a Leibniz Prize!"
Matthias Tschöp, CEO of Helmholtz Munich, talks about translating scientific discoveries into clinical practice, about ambitious targets, and about ideas he acquired during his time in the USA.
Funding to Advance Precision Medicine for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children
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…
Eleftheria Zeggini Receives FEBS | EMBO Women in Science Award 2027
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…
Reid Alderson Receives ERC Starting Grant for Protein-DANCE
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…
