Our Mission: Translation!

The mission of the BIH is medical translation: The BIH aims to translate findings from biomedical research into new approaches for personalised prediction, prevention and therapy and, conversely, to develop new research approaches from clinical observations.

12 Oktober 2023

First Genetic Causes of Raynaud’s Phenomenon Discovered

Two to five percent of all people are affected by Raynaud's phenomenon: In cold or stressful conditions, the small blood vessels that supply the skin constrict and the fingers or toes turn white.
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28 September 2023

Liver fibrosis: giant cells step in to compensate for impaired immune function

Researchers from Charité and the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary have observed for the first time how the liver preserves its bacterial filtration function.
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September 11, 2023

Call for applications for the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Program 2024 is live

Supported is the development of digital health solutions including medical and health tech products. The target group is all employees of Charité and BIH.
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September 5, 2023

Genes as a key to new therapies: Maik Pietzner receives ERC Starting Grant

With a sophisticated strategy that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to process huge amounts of data, Maik Pietzner wants to track down disease-relevant genes on a large scale.
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August 23, 2023

Rare kidney disease is genetically decoded

Using "long-read sequencing", researchers from BIH, the Max Delbrück Center and the University Hospital of Cologne were able to analyze the rare disease Bartter syndrome type 3 in more detail.
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July 24, 2023

Low binding affinity improves vaccine efficacy

Scientists have now discovered that antigen variants with low receptor binding can be advantageous for the development of vaccines.
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Events

Digital Medicine
29 Nov - 01 Dec 2023
BrainModes Conference 2023
BrainModes is an annual international meeting focusing on innovative means of understanding complex brain activity and multimodal neuroscience data sets. Speakers among others: Petra Ritter (BIH…
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Partner event
29 Nov 2023
Regulatory Affairs - The Regulatory Framework Around Therapeutic Solutions
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Equal Opportunity
01 Dec 2023
Individual coaching sessions for female, trans*, inter* and non-binary scientists
This coaching service aims to support participating scientists in their career decisions by providing an outside perspective. It also seeks to advise them on a third-party funding strategy and, if…
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LectureQUEST Center
01 Dec 2023
BIH Lecture | Gordon Guyatt: "How to Avoid Being Mislead by the Medical Literature"
The medical literature is fraught with potentially misleading findings and interpretations of findings. In this BIH Lecture Gordon Guyatt will deal with three of them.
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WebinarEqual Opportunity
04 Dec 2023
Diversity Journal Club
Every first Monday of the month - this time on the pre-award environment of publication processes: "If we use the strength of diversity among researchers we can only improve the quality and impact of…
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WorkshopQUEST Center
04 Dec - 06 Dec 2023
Online-Fortbildung "Aktive Patient:innenbeteiligung in der Gesundheitsforschung"
Online training for the successful design of active engagement of patients, especially in clinical research. Offered by the Institut für qualifizierende Innovationsforschung & -beratung (IQIB),…
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WebinarQUEST Center
04 Dec 2023
Creating dashboards to communicate institutional performance on responsible research practices
An event as part of the Meta-Research Methods Webinar.
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Partner eventSymposium
06 Dec - 08 Dec 2023
14. BSRT Symposium: The Regenerative Games of Tissue Regeneration
Each year, PhD students of the BSRT organize a symposium with many outstanding and international speakers. This year they seek to unite individuals in their pursuit of discovering the keys to…
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WorkshopCore Facility
06 Dec - 08 Dec 2023
BIH / MDC Course on Pluripotent Stem Cells
Training on Handling and Maintenance of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells for MDC, Charité and BIH scientists. >> Please apply by November 17, 2023.
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BIH Academy
10 Jan 2024
BIH Medical Student Research Stipends for students of medicine and dentistry
The following text is a translation of the official German version. In case of doubt, the German version will prevail: The BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy (BIA) of the Berlin Institute of Health…
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Our Mission: Translation!

First Genetic Causes of Raynaud’s Phenomenon Discovered

Liver fibrosis: giant cells step in to compensate for impaired immune function

Call for applications for the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Program 2024 is live

Genes as a key to new therapies: Maik Pietzner receives ERC Starting Grant

Rare kidney disease is genetically decoded

Low binding affinity improves vaccine efficacy

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Events

BrainModes Conference 2023

Regulatory Affairs - The Regulatory Framework Around Therapeutic Solutions

Individual coaching sessions for female, trans, inter and non-binary scientists

BIH Lecture | Gordon Guyatt: "How to Avoid Being Mislead by the Medical Literature"

Diversity Journal Club

Online-Fortbildung "Aktive Patient:innenbeteiligung in der Gesundheitsforschung"

Creating dashboards to communicate institutional performance on responsible research practices

14. BSRT Symposium: The Regenerative Games of Tissue Regeneration

BIH / MDC Course on Pluripotent Stem Cells

How did the Coronavirus influence research?

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BIH Medical Student Research Stipends for students of medicine and dentistry

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