{"id":15,"date":"2020-10-16T14:36:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T14:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/home\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T12:16:40","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T12:16:40","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"vf-grid | vf-grid__col-3\"><div class=\"vf-grid__col--span-2\"><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<p class=\"vf-lede\">The MMPU drives innovation and its translation into medicine, leveraging its internationality and interdisciplinarity at the interface of molecular research and health care.<\/p>\n<!--\/vf-lede-->\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Research in the MMPU focuses on common diseases, as well as on rare diseases with a particular medical need. One MMPU hallmark is that it is staffed by both institutions and each research group is headed by two or more cooperating principal investigators. The MMPU is co-directed by Prof. Carsten M\u00fcller-Tidow from the Department of Internal Medicine V, Hematology, Oncology and Rheumatology at the Heidelberg University, and Dr. Wolfgang Huber from EMBL.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, the MMPU consists of 9 international teams of molecular research-oriented MDs, PhDs, PhD students and technicians. The research philosophy aims at the molecular understanding of the basis of common human diseases, its applications in diagnosis and therapy, and feedback from &#8216;bedside medicine&#8217; into the research laboratory. Research themes place emphasis on the diseases of childhood, particularly blood disorders and childhood cancers and on diseases of adolescence, particularly hemochromatosis, heart diseases, chronic pain and cancers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MMPU has an international orientation, with regular team meetings and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/teaching-and-events\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"81\">two annual public research days<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"206\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/090714_mmpu_logo_final-1024x206.jpg\" alt=\"Official MMPU Logo\" class=\"wp-image-624\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/090714_mmpu_logo_final-1024x206.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/090714_mmpu_logo_final-300x60.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/090714_mmpu_logo_final-768x155.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/090714_mmpu_logo_final.jpg 1082w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"vf-figure wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" class=\"vf-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MMPU-Co-directors_2-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14947\" style=\"width:auto;height:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MMPU-Co-directors_2-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MMPU-Co-directors_2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MMPU-Co-directors_2-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MMPU-Co-directors_2-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/MMPU-Co-directors_2.jpg 1732w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"vf-figure__caption\">MMPU co-directors: <br>Carsten M\u00fcller-Tidow (left) and Wolfgang Huber (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"vf-divider\">\n\n\n\n<div class=\"embl-grid\"><div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n\n<div class=\"vf-section-header | vf-u-margin__bottom--400\">\n  <h2 class=\"vf-section-header__heading\" \n      id=\"flyers\">\n      \n          Flyers and brochures      <\/h2>\n\n  \n  <\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div><!--[vf\/content]-->\n<div class=\"vf-content\">\n<article class=\"vf-summary vf-summary--has-image\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MMPU_flyer_2019-300x300.png\" class=\"vf-summary__image\" alt=\"\" style=\"width: 180px; height: auto; border: 1px solid #d0d0ce\" loading=\"lazy\" itemprop=\"image\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MMPU_flyer_2019-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MMPU_flyer_2019-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MMPU_flyer_2019.png 443w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>  <h3 class=\"vf-summary__title\">\n          <a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/250523mmpu_SYB_BR_dt_engl_WEB.pdf\" class=\"vf-summary__link\" target=\"\">\n          MMPU flyer 2025          <\/a>\n      <\/h3>\n  <p class=\"vf-summary__text\">Have a look at our recent flyer! It is in English and German, and is accessible to all readers.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/history\/#archive\">Flyers and brochures archive<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"vf_template_front_page.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"embl_taxonomy":[],"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"embl_taxonomy_terms":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":121,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14953,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/14953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"embl_taxonomy","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.embl.org\/about\/info\/mmpu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/embl_taxonomy?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}