Max Planck Institute for Medical Research
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The Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg, Germany, is a facility of the Max Planck Society for basic medical research.
Since its foundation, six Nobel Prize laureates worked at the Institute: Otto Fritz Meyerhof （Physiology）, Richard Kuhn （Chemistry）, Walther Bothe （Physics）,
André Michel Lwoff （Physiology or Medicine）, Rudolf Mößbauer （Physics）, Bert Sakmann （Physiology or Medicine） and Stefan W. Hell （Chemistry）.
The institute was opened in 1930 as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research, and was re-founded as a Max Planck Institute in 1948.
Its original goal was to apply the methods of Physics and Chemistry to basic medical research, e.
g.
radiation therapy for cancer treatment, and it included departments of Chemistry, Physiology, and Biophysics.
In the 1960s, new developments in biology were reflected with the establishment of the Department of Molecular Biology.
Toward the end of the 1980s and during the 1990s, investigations began into the specific functions of muscle and nerve cells.
New departments were established in Cell Physiology （1989-2008）, Molecular Cell Research （1992-1999）, Molecular Neurobiology （1995）, Biomedical Optics （1999） and Biomolecular Mechanisms （2002）.
The independent junior research groups for Ion Channel Structure （1997-2003） and Developmental Genetics of the Nervous System （1999-2005） were also founded.
The institute currently has four departments: Biomolecular Mechanisms （Ilme Schlichting）, Chemical Biology （Kai Johnsson）, Cellular Biophysics （Joachim Spatz） and Optical Nanoscopy （Stefan W. Hell）.
With the appointment of three new directors in the last few years, the institute has experienced a major reorientation.
The new, central topic of research is to observe in real time and manipulate the complex dynamics of the interacti...