Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology | 5,275 followers on LinkedIn. The Max Planck Institute of Molecular Physiology (German: Max-Planck-Institut für molekulare Physiologie) is one of 83 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft). We are an international team of scientists from more than 30 nations dedicated to investigating the basic physical and biochemical processes in the cells (physiology) at the molecular level. Our research is interdisciplinary: Altogether, we are around 150 researchers, including biologists, biochemists, chemists, physicists and theoreticians.