Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit

The Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit is an alliance between the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg. Its primary aim is to uncover the molecular basis of disease and to speed the transformation of biomedical discoveries into personalized medicine strategies.
Founded in 2002, the Molecular Medicine Partnership Unit (MMPU) comprises eight inter-disciplinary research teams. It is co-directed by Prof. Andreas Kulozik from the Angelika-Lautenschläger Hospital for Children and Adolescents at the University of Heidelberg, by Prof. Matthias Hentze and Dr. Jan Korbel from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, and is housed in the Otto-Meyerhof-Research Center on the Medical Campus of the University of Heidelberg, Germany.
Research themes.
Research themes place emphasis on common diseases as well as on rare diseases with a particular medical need.
In 2021 more than 100 international scientists work on the following eight research themes: