QUEST Center for Responsible Research
QUEST – Quality | Ethics | Open Science | Translation
The QUEST Center strives to increase the value of biomedical research at BIH and beyond.

Mission
We aim to overcome the roadblocks of translational medicine to foster innovation that contributes to improved healthcare. To do this, we want to make biomedical research more trustworthy, useful and ethical. We maximize the quality of research at the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) by making sure that its results are accessible, reproducible and generalizable and thus have a high value. We want to create an awareness of the need to rethink biomedical research and to initiate a culture change in academic biomedicine.
Background
The QUEST Center was founded in 2017. It conducts research on research (meta research) (see projects) and derives from it offers (see services and courses & workshops) for the scientific community. With this mission, the QUEST Center is unique in Europe. Through its projects and services, the QUEST Center also examines the role of an academic institution in enhancing the trustworthiness, usefulness, and ethical accountability of biomedical research.
The main foci of the QUEST Center are:
Details on the theoretical framework as well as the previous approaches and experiences of the QUEST Center can be found here. A commentary on our experiences from the first years can be found in BMC Research Notes.
To ensure the long-term open accessibility of its outputs, the QUEST Center has adopted an Open Access Policy.