Strategy
The Helmholtz Zentrum München is the German Research Center for Environmental Health. We investigate chronic diseases which develop from the interaction of environmental factors and individual genetic disposition.
- We combine the fields of biomedical and environmental research.
- We place emphasis on excellent basic research, internationally used experimental platforms and clinical cooperation groups, as well as centers for translational medicine, in collaboration with the Munich universities and with other leading institutions, both national and international.
- Particular effort is laid on the promotion of junior scientists and personnel development.
- The realisation of equal opportunities is pursued through a large number of measures.
- We commit our scientific competence to the service of politics, legislation and society.
- We generate knowledge and create value, whereby we support the exploitation of new technologies and the application of results.