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On 28 February 2024, the team from Charité BIH Innovation (CBI) - the joint technology transfer of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) - was delighted to receive a visit from Prof. Heyo. K. Kroemer, Chairman of the Executive Board of Charité, Prof. Dr Joachim Spranger, Dean of Charité, Prof. Dr Christopher…

Twice a year, the start-up competition Gründungswettbewerb – Digitale Innovationen by the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection's (BMWK) honors the best ideas of innovative start-ups that are based on digital technologies. The award supports start-ups in the early stages and emphasizes their key role as drivers of innovation…

Apply by November 3, 2023 to the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Program, which provides funding to help you translate your digital health venture.

Apply by November 3, 2023 to the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Program, which provides funding to help you translate your digital health venture.

On May 31, 2023, the sixth annual Demo Day of the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Program took place, bringing together a diverse group of innovative minds in the heart of Berlin. The event, hosted by the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH), showcased seven exceptional teams of Charité/BIH clinicians and researchers presenting their digital…

The BIH Digital Health Accelerator is a program that supports and mentors innovation teams from Charité and the Berlin Institute of Health in the Digital Health space, and we are excited to showcase the incredible progress made by our seven teams over the past few months.

An interdisciplinary team led by Prof. Angela Relógio, a scientist at Charité’s Molecular Cancer Research Center (MKFZ) and Institute for Theoretical Biology and the MSH Medical School Hamburg, has developed a non-invasive method for profiling a person’s unique circadian rhythm. Starting with a simple saliva sample, the team of experts can create a…

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…

Join us for the open house at the new location: Welcome BIH Directors, keynotes, New Work Concepts, panel discussion and guided tours of the building and funded projects.

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

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 -…

Our network partner HTGF, together with B. Braun, Dräger, Health Innovation Port (HIP) by Philips and Die Technikerkrankenkasse, will host the 8th MEDTECH PITCH DAY on March 9, 2022. In addition to presentations and keynotes by relevant industry players, medtech startups and healthtech founders will have the opportunity to present their solutions…

As a manufacturer of AI-based software for predicting complications after serious heart surgery, x-cardiac GmbH has successfully completed the certification of its quality management system according to ISO 13485. (German Press Release)

The suspicion of preeclampsia during pregnancy only ends with serious complications in a few cases. With the help of machine learning, researchers at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, funded by the Digital Accelerator, have developed a model that can predict the risk of complications much better than the clinical parameters used to date.

On February 15, the 2022 cohort of the BIH Digital Health Accelerator (DHA) kicked off with seven new project teams.

We are happy that our BIH DHA program is featured the international Newsweek magazine about how Berlin leads the way in developing and piloting artificial intelligence solutions in the health sector.

Scientists at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have developed an automatable method for the histological examination of three-dimensional tissue preparations. Their idea could revolutionize microscopic tissue examinations and ease the burden on pathologists. The three founders of the project…

The International Health-Tech Pilot Program promotes forward-looking healthcare solutions from Israel. Now, the first collaboration agreements between Israeli start-up companies, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and the Israel Innovation Authority have been successfully concluded. The collaboration…

Get an intro to medical design and design thinking and learn to use some of the methods to advance your project.

Are you interested to learn more about the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Program? Do you want to double-check if your potential idea is fundable by the program? Or do you just want to learn more about digital health solutions, and Digital Labs and their funding programs in general? Just swing by in person or digitally at one of our info events for…

x-cardiac GmbH has been certified as a medical device manufacturer in the EU while at the same time receiving market authorization for its first medical device x-c-bleeding. The AI-based software can quickly predict the risk of postoperative bleeding in patients. Specialists at the German Heart Center Berlin (DHZB) developed the software and…

The Nephrolytix project by Prof. Prof. hc. Dr. med. Markus van der Giet, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, has been funded in the BIH Digital Health Accelerator program since August 2019.

The Charité was named one of the most innovative companies in Germany by the magazine Capital. An article about BIH as a driver of digital innovation and presentation of the Digital Health Accelerator.

On May 19, 2021, the BIH Digital Health Accelerator (DHA) Demo Day took place for the fourth time. The DHA program is carried out by Charité BIH Innovation, the joint technology transfer office of Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH), for the development of digital health solutions and their translation into…

On 19 May 2021 at 6:30 pm we invite you to attend the Demo Day of the BIH Digital Health Accelerator Charité BIH Innovation, the joint technology transfer office of the Berlin Institute of Health and Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the global healthcare sector is in the spotlight now more than ever before. Despite the challenging nature of these times, we have witnessed amazing advances in the healthcare and life science innovation space.

More than 1 billion people in low- and middle-income countries lack access to primary health care, mainly due to inadequate safety nets. Doctors from the Department of Neurology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin have created a digital solution to this problem and have now launched the company mTOMADY with the help of the Digital Health…

Meetup series Since 2018, BIH Digital Labs is supporting the meetup Machine Learning in Healthcare Berlin, which supports the community around machine learning in healthcare as a platform to learn from subject matter experts, exchange challenges and ideas, provide mutual support, and to foster collaborations.