Research
EMBL Heidelberg campus with the EMBL Advanced Trainings Centre to the right
A city of about 140,000 inhabitants, Heidelberg is home to Germany’s oldest university, as well as leading biological and medical science institutes such as the Centre for Molecular Biology, the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research, making it an ideal site for EMBL’s main laboratory.
Nestling in the wooded hills above the city, the complex is home to five of EMBL’s scientific units: Genome Biology, Cell Biology and Biophysics, Developmental Biology, Structural and Computational Biology and Directors’ Research, an important, diverse and interdisciplinary range of core facilities as well as the central administration, from which service functions are provided for the use of staff at all five EMBL sites. Heidelberg is also home to EMBLEM, the laboratory’s technology transfer company.
Interior of the EMBL Advanced Training Centre
Today more than 900 personnel are located at EMBL Heidelberg, and the close proximity of the other excellent institutes has led to numerous long-term collaborations. EMBL shares a campus with its sister organisation, the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO). The two share strong historical ties and work together in many ways; for example, they combine to stage many highly-recognised international courses and conferences. Integrated in the campus, the newly-built EMBL Advanced Training Centre hosts state-of-the-art training facilities for practical courses and computer labs together with a 450-seat auditorium, setting the scene for a new era of scientific conferences at EMBL promoting advanced scientific training and education in Europe.
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