In Brief
Helmholtz Graduate School HELENA
Starting from now, doctoral candidates in the life sciences can receive interdisciplinary training in the field of environmental health: since 1 November, the "Helmholtz Graduate School for Environmental Health" (HELENA) is officially open. The Graduate School was founded jointly by the Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, and the Technical University of Munich with funding from the Helmholtz Association.
"HELENA is the world's first graduate school with a research focus on common diseases such as diabetes and lung disease and their pathogenesis through the interaction of environmental factors and individual genetic disposition," said Prof. Dr Günther Wess, CEO of Helmholtz Zentrum München, summing up the advantages of the new graduate programme . "Together with the two Munich universities we offer students a unique research and training environment and thus the best possible conditions for their future careers in science."
The guidance students will receive at HELENA is particularly well organised, stressed Prof. Dr Gerhard Wenzel, former dean of the Weihenstephan Science Centre at the Technical University of Munich: this way, the feasibility of the planned work always remains in focus. Dr Isolde von Bülow, Director of the Graduate Centre at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, praised the possibility afforded by HELENA of looking beyond the confines of one's own research into one of the seven additional thematic fields in environmental health. The Helmholtz Graduate School HELENA offers participants intensive training in one of eight thematic fields. Management, leadership and communication skills are also fostered.
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www.helmholtz-helena.de Starting from now, doctoral candidates in the life sciences can receive interdisciplinary training in the field of environmental health: since 1 November, the "Helmholtz Graduate School for Environmental Health" (HELENA) is officially open. The Graduate School was founded jointly by the Helmholtz Zentrum München, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, and the Technical University of Munich with funding from the Helmholtz Association.
"HELENA is the world's first graduate school with a research focus on common diseases such as diabetes and lung disease and their pathogenesis through the interaction of environmental factors and individual genetic disposition," said Prof. Dr Günther Wess, CEO of Helmholtz Zentrum München, summing up the advantages of the new graduate programme . "Together with the two Munich universities we offer students a unique research and training environment and thus the best possible conditions for their future careers in science."
The guidance students will receive at HELENA is particularly well organised, stressed Prof. Dr Gerhard Wenzel, former dean of the Weihenstephan Science Centre at the Technical University of Munich: this way, the feasibility of the planned work always remains in focus. Dr Isolde von Bülow, Director of the Graduate Centre at Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, praised the possibility afforded by HELENA of looking beyond the confines of one's own research into one of the seven additional thematic fields in environmental health. The Helmholtz Graduate School HELENA offers participants intensive training in one of eight thematic fields. Management, leadership and communication skills are also fostered.
