The institution has university affiliations but no undergraduate teaching; it mainly hosts PhD students and postdocs and collaborates with universities and clinics on translational research.

“But having said that, the key thing is, in contrast to universities, that even though we all have affiliation to universities, mostly to the Technical University or the University of Munich, the two top-ranked universities interestingly in the European Union.”

“So we have this sort of place where we have these affiliations at universities, right? But we don't have undergraduate teaching. We essentially just have PhD students and postdocs, but we interact very much with the universities and in particular also the clinics because we want to have sort of this translational thing in there.”