Whole-body imaging
DISCO tissue clearing renders entire organisms transparent — then maps them at cellular resolution.
Institute for Intelligent Biotechnologies (iBIO) · Helmholtz Munich
Mapping biology in three dimensions
Enabling technologies for whole-body biology and precision medicine — from transparent tissue to single-cell maps.
AI-driven analysis
Deep learning segments organs, vasculature, and metastasis across terabyte-scale 3D datasets.
Spatial omics
DISCO-MS and DISCO-seq link 3D anatomy to proteomics and transcriptomics in intact specimens.
Our mission
Accelerating biomedical research with enabling technologies
Our major goal is to accelerate biomedical research by developing and combining enabling technologies. We combine biomedical research with artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and engineering.
From unbiased whole-body imaging to molecular analysis at single-cell resolution — we tackle major bottlenecks in understanding health and disease.
Our technologies
Whole-body imaging platforms we built
DISCO tissue clearing, light-sheet microscopy, and deep learning — integrated pipelines that render entire organisms transparent and map them at single-cell resolution.
MouseMapper
Publications
Selected publications
Recent flagship papers from the lab.
Nature2026
A deep-learning framework reveals whole-body perturbations at cell level
Doris Kaltenecker et al.
MouseMapper
Nature Biotechnology2025
Nanocarrier imaging at single-cell resolution across entire mouse bodies with deep learning
Jie Luo et al.
SCP-Nano
Nature Biotechnology2023
Whole-body cellular mapping in mouse using standard IgG antibodies
Hongcheng Mai et al.
wildDISCO
Team
Our team
An interdisciplinary group at iBIO, Helmholtz Munich.
Group Leader
Co-deputies & Leadership
Operations & Administration
Staff Scientists
Scientist
Postdocs
PhD Students
Master Students
Careers
Open positions
We are always looking for motivated scientists to join the Ertürk Lab.
Open positions are announced on Prof. Ertürk's LinkedIn. Follow him to stay up to date, and mention the Job ID from the LinkedIn post in your email.
Follow Prof. Ertürk on LinkedInContact for applications
erturk@helmholtz-muenchen.deWhat to include in your application
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Publications
List of publications, if applicable
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Research interests
Short description of what you want to work on
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References
Contact details of 2–3 referees
Contact
Find us
Get in touch with the Ertürk Lab at iBIO, Helmholtz Munich.
General contact
erturk@helmholtz-muenchen.deLocation
Institute for Intelligent Biotechnologies (iBIO)
Helmholtz Munich · Research Center Neuherberg
Building 43
Ingolstädter Landstraße 1
85764 Neuherberg, Germany
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