The Rudolf Virchow Center (RVZ) is the DFG Research Center for Integrative and Translational Bioimaging of the University of Würzburg.
[1] Its founding chairman is Martin J. Lohse, a former coworker of Robert Lefkowitz at Duke University.
The center derives its name from the pathologist Rudolf Virchow, who was a professor in Würzburg from 1849 to 1856 and was the first to postulate that diseases originated in dysfunctions of cells.
Researchers at the Rudolf Virchow Center aim to trace diseases back to dysfunctions of proteins.
The Rudolf Virchow Center also organizes a graduate program and several undergraduate programs in biomedicine and experimental medicine,.