 The Nobel Prize winner Hartmut Michel has been Director of the Institute since 1987.Scientific links to fellow researchers at Goethe University have been strengthened further as the institute is now situated next to the University's biology, chemistry and physics laboratories.Together with the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research and the Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main the institute run the "International Max Planck Research School (IMPRS) for Structure and Function of Biological Membranes", a graduate program offering a Ph.D. in the period from 2000 until 2012.