Ceremony marking the founding of the M1 Munich Medicine Alliance

"We are making Munich an innovation hub for the future of medicine"

Bavaria's Minister of Science, Markus Blume, said at the founding ceremony in the Munich Residenz: "We are creating the most powerful unit of cutting-edge medicine in Germany. Munich is becoming the medical capital of the republic. One thing is clear: this is about medical progress and the best care for the people in our country. We want to keep pace with the best in the world. To do this, we must and will catch up in the field of clinical trials to make Germany the pharmacy of the world again. We must and will break new ground in using health data; together with the possibilities of artificial intelligence, groundbreaking advances for new forms of therapy can be expected here. And we want to and will ensure that scientific knowledge reaches the bedside directly and perhaps also enables new business models."

TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann emphasizes: "The medicine of tomorrow should come from Munich! With this ambition, we are bringing together the top talent from the universities of excellence TUM and LMU, the university hospitals, and the Helmholtz Center Munich in the M1 – Munich Medical Alliance. With this collaborative approach, we want to develop Munich into one of the leading innovation hubs for the future of medicine."

With the strategic alliance "M1 – Munich Medicine Alliance," the partners want to strategically develop the exceptional strengths of Munich medicine to a world-class level. To this end, joint infrastructures for conducting clinical studies, platform technologies, and data integration are to be created. Translation projects are intended to accelerate the transfer of new knowledge and technologies from the laboratory to the patient.