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On April 8, 2025, the kick-off meeting of the first fellows of the nTTP-GCT program took place in Berlin. In an informal atmosphere, the fellows exchanged ideas and were informed about the program components and aims of the National Strategy for GCT. A successful start for the GCT funding of translational talents!

Together with the Biomedical Innovation Academy of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), Stiftung Charité 2024 has developed two new funding programs. The first fellows have now been selected.

Professor Sylvia Thun is a medical doctor, graduate engineer and expert in IT standards in the healthcare sector. Heading the Research Group for Digital Medicine and Interoperability in the Center of Health Data Sciences at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), she has been appointed as a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the…

Applications for the SPARK-BIH funding programme 2025 are open from now until 7 July 2025. Scientists and clinicians from BIH and Charité at all career levels are invited to apply.

The TransferAllianz e.V. has published a position paper that is intended to provide the new federal government with impulses for optimal transfer promotion in Germany. Three specific measures are intended to support knowledge and technology transfer in Germany and strengthen Germany as a location for innovation.

Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) now have fixed standard terms for spin-offs. These define binding key points for spin-off projects, particularly with regard to participation and licensing of intellectual property. Clear, consistent framework conditions create transparency, bindingness, and planning…

On February 20 2025, the Julius Wolff Institute, the BIH Center for Musculoskeletal Biomechanics and Regeneration, celebrated the opening of its new research areas in the Rahel Hirsch Center for Translational Medicine (RHC). To mark this major step, the team honored Dr. Julius Wolff, the person after whom the institute was named, with a ceremony.

Dr. Maik Pietzner receives a W2 professorship for life for “Health Data Modeling” at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH). His aim is to find disease-specific small changes in genes and thus target structures for innovative drugs. Using machine learning (ML) to mine huge amounts of heterogenous data sources, he wants to identify new…