Teaching input from joint appointments with Leibniz and Helmholtz Institutes; innovative concepts in practical courses (e.g. modern techniques for the analysis of biologicals; modern drug forms); elective practical courses: Cooperation of students in research projects of the working groups at the institute; modern microscopy room; teaching pharmacy; English-language master degree course Pharmaceutical and Industrial Biotechnology.

International DAAD-BMBF joint project "Trisustain" for sustainable development in Africa; strong participation in international graduate school "Functional Polymers"; international Master's degree course Pharmaceutical and Industrial Biotechnology; worldwide research cooperation with focus on cooperation with African countries; international cooperation projects (DAAD, AVH, DFG funded); 60% foreign doctoral students in GRK 2467.

Excellent research environment due to Weinberg campus (direct vicinity to the University Hospital, the natural science institutes of biology, biotechnology, chemistry and physics as well as non-university research institutes of the Max Planck Society, the Fraunhofer, Leibniz and Helmholtz Societies); all relevant databases available; very good infrastructure for digital teaching (MLUConf platform, Ilias); very good equipment for mass spectrometry, protein biochemistry, molecular biology, nanotechnology, computing clusters, very good research structure due to the modern Charles-Tanford protein centre

Head of DAAD-BMBF International Joint Project "Trisustain" for sustainable development in Africa; focus on protein research: Head of the GRK 2467 "Intrinsically Disordered Proteins - Molecular Principles, Cellular Functions and Diseases", participation SFB 1423, and SFB 1497. Discovery and optimisation of herbal active substances, development of new active substances against parasitic diseases (within the international research network "A-PARADDISE - Anti-Parasitic Drug Discovery in Epigenetics"); development of new polymers for drug delivery systems, int. GRK "Functional Polymers"

Comprehensive support from the university's transfer and start-up service. Support of the participation of institute members in information events of company foundations and patent workshops.