Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

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Max Planck Institute for
Medical Research

Max-Planck-Institut für medizinische Forschung
Abbreviation	MPImF
Purpose	Basic Medical research
Headquarters	Munich, Germany
Location	Heidelberg, Germany
Acting Director	Kai Johnsson
Parent organization	Max Planck Society
Staff	approx. 250
Website	www.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).