We are committed to understanding how environmental, genetic, and lifestyle factors shape human health and disease, with the ultimate goal of enabling precision prevention. As part of Helmholtz Munich, our institute includes the Research Unit of Molecular Epidemiology and applies population-based epidemiology approaches to uncover both protective and harmful influences on health. Our mission is to understand the protective and harmful effects of the environment, genes and lifestyle on human health and disease using population-based epidemiology approaches. Knowledge of these interactions leads to novel targeted prevention and intervention approaches for cardiometabolic diseases, allergies and other major disease entities. Our research Read more