Prof. Christian Gaebler, an HIV researcher at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has a goal: to develop treatments that cure HIV infection in patients or prompt the immune system to keep the virus in check in the long term, even without medications.
A new collaborative study by researchers from the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), Queen Mary University of London, University College London, University of Cambridge and the pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) shows that proteins measured in a single drop of blood can predict risk for a variety of diseases.
Immunotherapies harness the body’s immune system to fight cancer by influencing the interaction between immune cells and cancer cells. Such treatments have proved successful in combating certain types of cancers like leukemia, but they remain ineffective in some patients and cause resistance. A research group led by Prof. Simon Haas, which is part…
The European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) has elected Professor Claudia Langenberg of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), and of the Precision Healthcare University Research Institute (PHURI) at Queen Mary University of London, as a new member. Headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany, EMBO supports talented researchers at all…
Multiple myeloma is one of the most common forms of cancer of the immune cells in the bone marrow. It is considered incurable. Even when patients respond to treatment at first, the cancer comes back. To be able to intervene faster and on a more targeted basis, researchers at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin Institute of Health at…
The course of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections depends not only on how aggressive the virus is, but also on the immune response of the infected individual. Using single-cell analyses, a group of researchers led by Samantha Praktiknjo of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), Markus Landthaler of the Max Delbrück Center and Jakob Trimpert…
Today, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) officially handed over the National Strategy for Gene and Cell Therapies to Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger (FDP). Some 150 experts from various stakeholder groups drew up the paper and developed a road map for improving healthcare and strengthening Germany as a hub for gene…
Scientists from the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and Open Targets together with colleagues from the University of Cambridge, and Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge, UK, uncovered mechanisms driving regeneration of the liver during chronic liver disease. This regenerative process allows the liver to repair itself when chronically…
Researchers at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) have used brain simulations to develop a theory on the formation of traveling waves of activity. These waves influence cognitive processes in the human brain such as learning or remembering. Understanding traveling waves of activity can support in treating patients with cognitive…
