A new Future Site for Berlin: The Health Innovation Quarter in Mitte

At the heart of Brain City Berlin, a new Future Site is taking shape: the Health Innovation Quarter Berlin-Mitte. Here, science, industry and startups are working together on the health innovations of the future. The initiative was founded by Charité and the company Bayer, who are jointly creating a powerful innovation network that enriches the capital.
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On 26 March 2026, Senator for Economic Affairs Franziska Giffey officially designated the Health Innovation Quarter in Berlin-Mitte as the city's newest Future Site. The aim is to bring research, development and clinical application closer together, and to make the transfer of medical innovations into practice more effective. Brain City Berlin now has twelve such hubs, forming a network of innovation-driven science and technology locations across the city.

Five kilometres of future

The hub stretches across approximately five kilometres, from the Charité-Mitte campus along the Spree canal and Humboldthafen, through the Bayer site between Nordhafen and Müllerstraße, to the Charité Campus Virchow-Klinikum. Even before its official designation, this area had established itself as an internationally visible centre for health innovation. The aim now is to make it even easier for companies and spin-offs from around the world to find the best conditions for developing their ideas, testing them rapidly and translating them into market-ready therapies.

Franziska Giffey, Governing Mayor and Senator for Economic Affairs, Energy and Public Enterprises, said: "Berlin's Future Sites stand for what makes our capital's economy distinctive:...

 

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