Helmholtz Zentrum München

The Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health ( HMGU or HTM ​​) is a major research center near the city of Munich and a member of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres. His research is integrated into the Helmholtz Research Centres "Earth and Environment" and " health".

The center was established on 23 June 1964 as the Society for Radiation Research ( GSF) in the organization as a limited company. Shareholder of the Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Federal Republic of Germany are under the Partnership Agreement 13 February 1978 to 90 % ( represented by the Federal Minister of Education and Research ) and 10% of the Free State of Bavaria ( represented by the Bavarian State Minister of Finance ).

By the end of 2007, it was called the " GSF - National Research Center for Environment and Health", with the acronym " GSF " went back to the previous name " Society for Radiation Research."

Structure

The Helmholtz Zentrum München is a facility of the Federal Government and the Free State of Bavaria in the legal form of a GmbH. The Government and the State fund the center in the ratio 90:10. The organization includes more than 2,000 employees in 26 institutes and independent departments.

Facilities

The headquarters of the Helmholtz Zentrum München is located in the north of Munich on a Oberschleißheim 52.3 -hectare research campus. The Centre maintains research facilities in the city of Munich such as the Haematology and clinical cooperation groups, together with the Universities of Munich (LMU and TUM). The Lung Research Centre (CPC Comprehensive Pneumology Center ) was opened in the presence of Federal Research Minister Annette Schavan On July 12, 2010.

Promotion: Graduate School Helena

The Helmholtz Graduate School Environmental Health ( HELENA ) was opened on 1 November 2010. It is a joint initiative to doctoral training at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich and the Technical University of Munich.

Research priorities

Research focus is on the realignment with the beginning of 2008, the area of Environmental Health, ie the influence of environmental factors on health. This concerns in particular a series of complex chronic diseases, such as lung disease, allergies, diabetes, dementia and depression, which are also determined to a considerable extent by personal risk factors, lifestyle and environmental conditions. The goal is to close the link between research and application through an interdisciplinary and translational research approach, ie Basic and applied research are closely linked.

Asse Research Mine

The GSF and the Helmholtz Zentrum München operation from 1967 until the end of 2008, the 27.6 -hectare Asse Research Mine for the final disposal of radioactive waste in Remlingen in Braunschweig. In 2009, the ownership of the Asse mine was transferred to the Federal Office for Radiation Protection, after irregularities were known. Here, the Federal Office accused the Centre, that the research mine had been for decades abused as a repository for nuclear waste. The company was advised in this affair, among others, the lawyer Gerald Hennenhöfer who had previously served as Head of the Department of Nuclear Safety of the Federal Environment Ministry and later as Executive Vice President for Economic Policy of the energy company Viag.

Between 1972 and 1982, the Helmholtz Zentrum München also ran the research reactor Neuherberg, the nuclear reactor is now in the so-called safe enclosure. The GSF and the Helmholtz Zentrum München were from 1964 to 2009 member of the German Atomic Forum, a lobby group that fights for the non-military use of nuclear energy.

Line

The Helmholtz Zentrum München is led by a scientific and a commercial director. From 2013, a managing director for scientific and technical infrastructure was added.

The Scientific Director of the Centre were:

Managing for scientific and technical infrastructure:

• Since 2013: Alfons Enhsen