The Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V. (MPG) is Germany's leading nonprofit research MPG is a leading non-profit research institute in Germany and a leading non-university research institute in the world. The MPG has dozens of sub-institutes, including the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, the Karl Friedrich Bonheur Institute, and the Max Planck Institute for Bioinorganic Chemistry.