The medical profession is a strong project in the German industry, the turnover of the pharmaceutical industry in the German industrial turnover ranked second, Bayer Pharmaceuticals listed in the European pharmaceutical companies in the fourth place. The University of Heidelberg has the Medical Research Institute of the Max Planck Society, the German Cancer Research Center and other scientific research institutions. The University of Heidelberg has a number of research institutes such as the German Cancer Research Center of the Max Planck Society. There are various specialties and departments under the General Faculty of Medicine. Here trained two Nobel Prize winners in medicine, Albrecht? Kossel (AlbrechtKossel), in protein and nucleic acid research achieved great results, won the 1910 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine; Otto? Otto Fritz Meyerhoff. AttoFritzMeyerhof, who achieved great results in the study of the biological reaction chain, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1922.
The Freie Universit?t Berlin has the most important medical training center in Germany, and thousands of people are treated at the university every year. The Department of Therapeutic Education (Heilpaedagogische Fakultaet) at the University of Cologne is the largest department of specialized therapy in the world, and the University of Kiel in the field of medical research, the University Hospital of Kiel has had a decisive influence on the development of instrumentation and surgical procedures for pelvic cavity examination and on the development of surgery for minimal infection worldwide. The Lepnitz Prize of the German Research Association of the Ruhr-Universit?t Bochum was awarded to the medical faculty of this university. Neurology it is recognized as a strong point.