There are various mentoring programs that specifically support women scientists on their career path. Mentoring is a good way to get individual support from a mentor, to network with other mentees, and to learn from and with each other in workshops. Here you will find a selection of relevant mentoring programs for women scientists.
The Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) at the Charité is announcing a poster competition on the topic of "Antidiscrimination".
It may be the most baffling quirk of COVID-19: What manifests as minor, flu-like symptoms in some individuals spirals into severe disease, disability, or even death in others. A paper recently published in Nature may explain the genetic underpinnings of this dichotomy.
A large number of people are currently contracting COVID-19. Fortunately, most of them are experiencing only mild symptoms, largely thanks to the high vaccination rate. However, in some individuals the disease takes a much more severe cause and our understanding about the underlying reasons is still insufficient. The human genome may hold a key to…
A Berlin-based research group led by Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin has succeeded in simulating SARS-CoV-2 infection in human lungs and has gained important insights into the mechanism of infection. Using living lung samples, they were able to show that the virus is capable of directly infecting the cells of the human alveoli to only a very…
We performed a systematic review of concepts and solutions for use cases such as digital contact tracing to inform the current discussions on an optimal balance between privacy protection and pandemic control.
The SCOR Consortium aims to use state-of-the-art cryptographic techniques to evaluate mass data on COVID-19, while protecting the privacy of patients.
A multidisciplinary team of scientists will establish a research data infrastructure for personal health data in Germany: NFDI4Health. The BIH Medical Informatics Group is a partner in this initiative.
The article provides an overview of how the German Medical Informatics Initiative has decided to implement electronic representations of data use permissions that are interoperable across different standards.
