Medicine and Health
What technologies can we use to make faster and more reliable medical diagnoses? How will we treat diseases like cancer, multiple sclerosis or Alzheimer's disease in the future? How can we protect ourselves and fight against viruses? What kind of surgical methods will we apply?

In our efforts to answer these questions, we link the study of medicine with the natural sciences, life sciences, engineering and informatics. This generates enormous potential in the fields of biomedical engineering and digital medicine, enabling us to meet the needs of a modern healthcare system with the latest technological resources.
We develop new imaging technologies to gain more detailed insights into the human body and investigate new approaches for personalized diagnoses and therapies. The findings we produce are incorporated into the training of doctors and the treatment of patients. Our work therefore has a direct, practical impact and makes an essential contribution to health care system.
- TUM School of Medicine
- Department of Sport and Health Sciences
- TUM Institute for Advanced Study
- Munich Institute of Biomedical Engineering (MIBE)
- TranslaTUM - Central Institute for Translational Cancer Research
- ZIEL - Institute for Food & Health
- Center for Digital Medicine and Health (ZDMG), under development
- Center for Integrated Infection Prevention, under development
- Research Center for Multiple Sclerosis, under development
- Comprehensive Cancer Center München (CCCM) (German)
You will find a selection of important current research projects here:
- Cluster of Excellence „SyNergy“
- CRC 1035 – Control of protein function by conformational switching
- CRC 1321: Modelling and Targeting Pancreatic Cancer
- CRC 1335: Aberrant Immune Signals in Cancer
- CRC 1371: Microbiome Signatures - Functional Relevance in the Digestive Tract
- TRR 267: Non-coding RNA in the cardiovascular system
- TRR 274: Checkpoints of Central Nervous System Recovery
- TRR 338: LETSIMMUN - Lymphocyte Engineering for Therapeutic Synthetic Immunity
- BMBF Clusters4Future „CNAMT“ (in German only)
- EVUK for integrated nucleic acid research (Prof. Stefan Dr. Engelhardt)
- EVUK "Next-generation AI for Integrated Diagnostics" (Prof. Dr. Daniel Rückert)
ERC Grants / EU projects / EITs / Innovation Networks
- HEROINE, ERC Starting Grant, Dr. Melanie Schirmer
- MATRICARD, ERC Starting Grant, PD Dr.med. Thorsten Kessler (DHM)
- GRACE, ERC Consolidator Grant, Prof. Dr. Nina H. Uhlenhaut
- iBAck-epic, ERC Consolidator Grant, Prof. Dr. med. Jan Kirschke
- LongTx, ERC Consolidator Grant, Prof. Dr. Lars Mägdefessel
- BIOCARD, ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Dr. Alessandra Moretti
- breakingBAC, ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Dr. Stephan A. Sieber
- BREATHE, ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wall
- Cor-Edit-P, ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Christian Kupatt-Jeremias
- GENESHUTTLE, ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Dr. Hendrik Dietz
- NETWORK, ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Dr. Mikael Simons
- T-NHL SUPRESSORS, ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Ruland
- TOPAS, ERC Advanced Grant, Prof. Dr. Bernhard Küster
- Human Brain Project
- OPTOMICS (Prof. Dr. Vasilis Ntziachristos)
- ReHyb (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sandra Hirche)
- Vax2Muc (Prof. Dr. Markus Gerhard)
- VIROFIGHT (Prof. Dr. Ulrike Protzer)
- Participation in „EIT Food“
- Participation in „EIT Health“
- TUM Innovation Network „Neurotech“
- TUM Innovation Network „NextGenDrugs“
- TUM Innovation Network „eXprt“
- Overview of research projects at TUM
You will find a selection of degree programs offered by TUM in the field of "medicine and health” here:
- Medicine (Clinical Work)
- Bachelor Health Sciences
- Bachelor Life Sciences Nutrition
- Bachelor Sport Science
- Master Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics
- Master Biomedical Neuroscience
- Master Health Science – Prevention and Health Promotion
- Master Nutrition and Biomedicine
- Master Radiation Biology
- Medical Life Science and Technology (PhD Program)
You will find a selection of courses on “medicine and health” offered by the TUM Institute for LifeLong Learning here: