The Transgenic Core Facility is a joint facility of the Max Planck Institutes of Biochemistry and Neurobiology. The service is open to all departments and groups of the two Institutes.

Research with genetically engineered mouse models is dependant on the availability of specific techniques, highly specialized laboratory equipment and skilled staff. The Transgenic Core Facility provides the lab infrastructure for the maintenance and generation of transgenic mouse models and the complete set of gene targeting and transgenesis technologies in a setting of specific pathogen free (SPF) animal housing. The facility offers support, advice and counselling for non-specialists in recombinant embryonic stem (ES) cell technology, de novo establishment of mouse ES cell lines, gene targeting experiments and the approval of certain animal experiments.