Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

Max Planck Institute for
Medical Research
Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung
AbbreviationMPImF
PurposeBasic Medical research
HeadquartersMunich, Germany
Location
  • Heidelberg, Germany
Acting Director
Kai Johnsson
Parent organization
Max Planck Society
Staffapprox. 250
Websitewww.mpimf-heidelberg.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, is a facility of the Max Planck Society for basic medical research. Since its foundation, six Nobel Prize laureates worked at the Institute: Otto Fritz Meyerhof (Physiology), Richard Kuhn (Chemistry), Walther Bothe (Physics), André Michel Lwoff (Physiology or Medicine), Rudolf Mößbauer (Physics), Bert Sakmann (Physiology or Medicine) and Stefan W. Hell (Chemistry).