Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association

The Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association in Berlin, Germany is one of the sixteen research centers of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres.The CenterThe Max Delbrück Center was founded in January 1992 as the successor to the Zentralinstitut für Molekularbiologie which depended on the German Academy of Sciences Berlin until 1990. The center is named after Berlin-born Nobel prize laureate and biophysicist Max Delbrück. The institute combines basic research in Molecular Biology with clinical research, with a focus on multi-organ diseases such as heart failure.The following four areas are central research topics: Cardiovascular and metabolic diseases Cancer research Function and dysfunction of the nervous system Molecular systems biology The current scientific director is Martin J. Lohse. He is also a professor at the University of Würzburg, where he founded the Rudolf Virchow Center.