BIH Visiting Professors

Attracting renowned scientists is of special importance to the BIH. With their respective background of experience and their new ideas, they can give important impulses to creating the shared research area of Charité and MDC, and they make a considerable contribution to putting translational and systems medicine research, the guiding notion of BIH, into practice. Stiftung Charité is already offering a wide range of funding programs to attract scientists from abroad to BIH. BIH Visiting Professors are visiting scientists from abroad or from Germany recruited for activities at BIH.

Overview

Prof. Dr. Chantal Pichon from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Orléans (France) will be at the BIH Center for Regenerative Therapies (hosts: Prof. Dr. Hans-Dieter Volk and Dr. Michael Schmück-Henneresse) to develop a major project on T cells in the fight against lung and bladder cancer.

Also from France, and here from the Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM) in Paris, comes Prof. Dr. Sagi Shapira to set up an interdisciplinary and international graduate program for computer-based research in biomedicine with Prof. Dr. Andreas Diefenbach and many other partners from Charité and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine.

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Kiem from the University of Washington in Seattle (USA) supports the development of cell and gene therapies at the Berlin Institute of Health (host: Prof. Dr. Christopher Baum) and will in particular help to establish the necessary industrial partnerships.

Dr. Nils Gassen comes to Charité from the University Hospital Bonn to set up a new collaborative project with Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten on the important distinction between stress and immune responses in bats or humans.

Prof. Dr. Marius Wernig from Stanford University (USA) will be a regular visitor at the Charité Institute of Neuropathology (host: Prof. Dr. Frank Heppner) to start a major research project on a microglial receptor of particular importance for the development of neurodegenerative diseases.
Prof. Dr. Marcus Friedrich, New York State Department of Health (USA), Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Spies (Charité), Research project: Establishment of the Charité as a national leader for machine-learning sepsis innovation and
comprehensive quality data collection and management

Dr. Anita Bandrowski, University of California at San Diego (USA), Host:: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Dirnagl (BIH und Charité)
Research project: Automated tool screening of manuscripts for rigor and reproducibility criteria: a collaborative approach

Prof. Dr. Nir Friedman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel), Host: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Rajewsky (MDC), Research project: Chromatin immunoprecipitation and sequencing of cell‐free nucleosomes (cfChIP‐seq) to identify biomarkers in kidney disease and cancer

Dr. Daniel Le Grange, University of California at San Francisco (USA ), Host: Prof. Dr. Christoph U. Correll (Charité), Research project: Implementation of Family based treatment for Youth with anorexia nervosa in Berlin

Prof. Dr. Gertraud Maskarinec, University of Hawaii (USA), Host: Prof. Dr. Tobias Pischon (MDC), Research project: Diet Quality, Body Fat Distribution, and Type 2 Diabetes - Translating Knowledge from Population Based Studies into Prevention Strategies
Prof. Dr. Per-Olof Berggren, Karolinska Institutet (Schweden), Host: Prof. Dr. Joachim Spranger (Charité), Research project: Intraocular Islet/Islet-Organoid Transplantation for monitoring diabetes progression and treatment

Prof. Dr. Christine Knabe-Ducheyne, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Deutschland), Host: Prof. Dr. Max Heiland (Charité), Research project: Vascularized tissue engineered 3D- printed ceramic bone grafts for reconstruction of mandibular segmental defects

Prof. Dr. Robert Schwabe, Columbia University in New York (USA), Host: Prof. Dr. Frank Tacke (Charité), Research project: Understanding and targeting of hepatic stellate cells in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by single cell-based
systems biology

Prof. Dr. Hans-Georg Kuhn, University of Gothenburg (Schweden), Host: Prof. Dr. Dr. Tobias Kurth (Charité), Research project: From Beyond the Bedside back to the Bench: How population-based methods can inform basic science practice

Prof. Dr. Sevil Yasar, Johns Hopkins University (USA), Gastgeberin: Prof. Dr. Adelheid Kuhlmey (Charité), Research project: Statin use in older community dwelling patients with dementia: what do we know and should we change practice

Dr. Vasan Ramachandran, Boston University School of Medicine (USA), Gastgeber: Prof. Dr. Burkert Pieske (Charité), Research project: Developing a strategic concept to establish the Berlin Longterm Observation of Vascular Events (BeLOVE) cohort as a translational keystone for cardiovascular research at Charité and BIH
Prof. Dr. Giulio Cossu, University of Manchester (UK), Host: Prof. Dr. Simone Spuler (Charité and MDC), Research project: Development of novel therapeutics from muscle stem cells

Prof. Dr. Ray Dolan, University College London (Great Britain), Host: Prof. Dr. Andreas Heinz (Charité), Research project: Joint data collection and evaluation for patients with mental disorders such as alcohol addiction

Prof. Dr. Udo Hoffmann, Harvard Medical School (USA), hosts: Prof. Dr. Bernd Hamm and Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey (both Radiology of the Charité), Project: International Research Network for the Joint Use of Imaging Data

Dr. Richard Koche, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York (USA), hosts*: Prof. Dr. Angelika Eggert and Dr. Anton Henssen (Charité Department of Pediatrics with focus on oncology and hematology), research project: DNA circulation in childhood cancer

Prof. Dr. Konrad Reinhart, University Hospital Jena (Germany), hosts*: Prof. Dr. Claudia Spies and Dr. Gunnar Lachmann (both Charité Clinic for Anaesthesiology), Project: Establishment of a WHO Collaborating Center for Sepsis at the Charité

Prof. Dr. Falk Müller-Riemenschneider, University of Singapore (Singapore), hosted by Prof. Dr. Roland Eils (BIH Center for Digital Medicine), projects on personalized prevention and treatment of non-communicable diseases using new digital technologies.
Prof. Dr. Hans Lehrach, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Host: Dr. Rolf Zettl (Berlin Institute of Health), Research project: "DIGITWINS: Digital Twins for Better Health"

Prof. Dr. Peter Hildebrand, Universität Leipzig, Host: Prof. Dr. Axel Radlach Pries (Charité), Research project: "Viewing and sharing time resolved motions of G protein coupled receptors on the web"

Prof. Dr. Guiseppe Macino, La Sapienza University of Rome (Italien), Host: Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Rajewsky (Berlin Institute for Medical Systemy Biology, MDC), Research project: "Single Cell Genetics and Epigenetics of Patient Derived Tumor and Brain Organoids"

Prof. Dr. Konrad Reinhart, Universitäts-klinikum Jena, Host: Prof. Dr. Claudia Spies (Charité), Research project: "Konzeptentwicklung und Anbahnung eines Comprehensive Sepsis Centers an der Charité"
Prof. Dr. Heiko Becher, Universitäts klinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf, Host: Prof. Dr. Geraldine Rauch, Research project: "eSTablishing clinical EPidemiology as a key competence for fUture research Projects (STEP UP)"
Prof. Dr. Hans Lehrach, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics Berlin, Host: Prof. Dr. Erwin Böttinger (Berlin Institute of Health), Research project: “The Future of Healthcare"

Prof. Dr. Peter Van Endert, Université Paris Descartes, France, Host: Prof. Dr. Peter Kloetzel (Institute of Biochemistry, Charité), Research project: “Optimising MHC Class I (Cross-)Presentation to promote tumor rejection by CD8+ T Cells"

Prof. Dr. Lu Chen, Stanford University, USA, Host: Prof. Dr. Christian Rosenmund (Institute of Neurophysiology, Charité), Research project: “How do plastic changes at synapses in a circuit enable learning, encode memory, and drive behavior?"

Prof. Dr. Robert Frigg, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, Host: Dr. Rolf Zettl (Berlin Institute of Health), Research project: “Förderung von Medizintechnischen Lösungen und deren Translation in Medizinprodukte"

Prof. Dr. Sylvia Thun, Hochschule Niederrhein, Gastgeber: Axel Radlach Pries (Charité), Forschungsprojekt: “Einrichtung einer eHealth und Interoperability Core Unit"
Prof. Dr. Hannah Monyer, Medical Faculty at the University of Heidelberg and DKFZ, Host: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schmitz (Charité), Research project: “Inhibition in the context of cortical columnar organization"

Prof. Dr. Steffen Gay, University Hospital Zurich, Host: Prof. Dr. Gerd-Rüdiger Burmester (Charité), Research project: “Development of Novel Biomarkers for the Detection of Response to anti-rheumatic drugs"

Dr. Michael Potente, Max Planck Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Host: Prof. Dr. Holger Gerhardt (Max-Delbrück Centre for Molecular Medicine), Research project: “Mechanisms of vessel size regulation - role of YAP/TAZ signaling"

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