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Participants of the journalist tour 2011. Photo: Helmholtz/Fesseler
Journalists Tour Through Health Research
This year's journalists tour through the Helmholtz Health Centres included, amongst many other topics, the gene analysis centre and the bio bank in Munich, long-term studies on allergies and water contaminated with arsenic in Leipzig and tumour research on mice in Brunswick. For about one week at the end of September, thirteen European science journalists were able to occupy themselves intensively with health research within the Helmholtz Association and were astonished to learn how much is being invested in research and how broad a range this research field offers. The tour started at the Helmholtz Zentrum München and then took the participants to the German Cancer Research Centre in Heidelberg, the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) at its Bonn site, then to the Max Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ in Leipzig, before culminating at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research in Brunswick. "The program of the week gave us an impression how big the Helmholtz Association is. Now I have understood why Germany is on the top in scientific research in the world”, Valeria Fieramonte from Italy summed up the experience.
