Organization
Board of Directors
The Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) is led by a Board of Directors, responsible for strategic planning and implementation of the research program.
Professor Christopher Baum is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the BIH. More information about Professor Baum can be found in his curriculum vitae.
Extended Board of Directors
In order to include the full-time scientific staff of the translational research area in the opinion-forming and decision-making of the directorate, an extended board of directors is formed. The extended board of directors advises the voting members of the board of directors with regard to its tasks. For this purpose, it may submit statements to the voting members and request information as well as the treatment of its motions.
The Extended Board of Directors consists of:
- Professor Joachim Spranger (Dean)
- four elected persons belonging to the full-time scientific staff of the Translational Research Unit.
Speaker
Prof. Dr. Birgit Sawitzki
Professor for Translational Immunology, BIH
Vice Speaker
Prof. Dr. Il-Kang Na
BIH Johanna Quandt Professor for Therapy-induced Re-Modelling in Immuno-Oncology, BIH
Name | Institution |
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Prof. Dr. Birgit Sawitzki | Professor for Translational Immunology, BIH |
Prof. Dr. Il-Kang Na | BIH Johanna Quandt Professor for Therapy-induced Re-Modelling in Immuno-Oncology, BIH |
Dr. Simon Haas | Heisenberg-Professor for in systems medicine for hematology, BIH |
Prof. Dr. Tobias Winkler | Professor Regenerative Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, BIH |
Prof. Dr. Joachim Spranger | Dean, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
Governing Board
All activities of BIH are supervised by the Supervisory Board, which is also responsible for approving essential decisions such as the business plan, strategic planning, appointments, and investments.
Deputies of the German Government | |
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Director General Prof. Dr. Veronika von Messling | Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space; Chair |
Deputies of the federal state of Berlin | |
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State Secretary Dr. Henry Marx | Senate Department for Science and health care; Deputy Chair |
External experts | |
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Prof. Dr. Monika Jungbauer- Gans | Scientific management, German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) |
Prof. Dr. Blanche Schwappach-Pignataro | Dean, Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) |
Dr. Christian Rommel | Head of Research and Development, Division Pharmaceuticals, BAYER AG |
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Gillessen-Kaesbach | Universität zu Lübeck |
Scientific Advisory Board
The Scientific Advisory Board is responsible for providing the Executive Board and Supervisory Board with external specialized knowledge regarding future important research topics and ongoing scientific and strategic issues; it meets every six months. At present the Scientific Advisory Board consists of thirteen international experts in translational research and systems medicine.
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board
Prof. Lina Badimon
Institute for Cardiovascular Science, Barcelona, Spain
Vice Chair
Prof. André Terzic
Mayo Clinic, USA
Name | Institution |
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Prof. Lina Badimon | IR-Hospital Sta. Creu i S. Pau, Spain |
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Leena Bruckner-Tuderman | Faculty of Medicine Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany |
Prof. Segun Fatumo | Queen Mary University of London; MRC Uganda/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK |
Prof. Teri Manolio | National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA |
Prof. Miriam Merad | Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, USA |
Prof. David Moher | Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada |
Prof. Jens Rittscher | Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, UK |
Prof. Claudia Schmidtke | University Heart Center Lübeck (UHZL), Germany |
Prof. André Terzic | Mayo Clinic, USA |
Prof. Emily Sena | Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences, The University of Edinburgh, Scotland |
Prof. David A. Williams | Division of Hematology/Oncology, Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School, USA |
Prof. Eleftheria Zeggini | Helmholtz Zentrum München, Germany |
Legal texts
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Gesetz über das Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung [in German]
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Gesetz zur Integration des Berliner Instituts für Gesundheitsforschung [in German]
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