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On February 21, the BIH Digital Health Accelerator program launched with seven new project teams.

In order to improve care for about six million people with severe mental illnesses in Germany, a digital platform has been developed by members of the Department of Psychiatry and Neurosciences at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin at Campus Charité Mitte. The platform, called Recovery Cat, provides patients with individualized therapy plans and…

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.

The BIH DHA spin-off AIgnostics successfully closes a €14 million Series A round to enter additional markets.

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…

On May 31, 2022, the Digital Health Accelerator Program of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) celebrated its fifth birthday at Demo Day 2022. The entertaining program included presentations by successful grantees and partners, as well as pitches by the seven 2022 newly funded teams of physicians and researchers from Charité -…

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.