The Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) is coordinating the central European research project "EU-CiP" (European Cancer Information Portal). This project is funded with 12 million euros over four years by the European Union's Horizon Europe…
Lab-made sugars open new possibilities for faster, more reliable diagnosis
Deadline: October 15th, 2025
Researchers in Berlin have used base editing to repair mutations that cause the kidney disorder ADPKD in cells from both mice and humans. In mice, a team led by Michael Kaminski was able to ease a key symptom of the difficult-to-treat disease. The…
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- Vice Chancellor Lars Klingbeil acknowledges the significance of the project for Germany as supporting environment for innovative companies
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On September 17, the World Health Organization (WHO) will celebrate World Patient Safety Day 2025 under the theme “Safe care for every newborn and every child.” As part of this global campaign, Berlin-based startup tio announces the beta launch of…
Altuna Akalin and his team at the Max Delbrück Center have developed a new tool to more precisely guide cancer treatment. Described in a paper published in “Nature Communications,” the tool, called Flexynesis, uses deep neural networks and evaluates…
Researchers led by Dubravka Vučićević at the Max Delbrück Center have developed a new method to discover how DNA controls genes. Their technique, published in “Cell Genomics,” can reveal the genetic “switches” that regulate important genes more…
ERC Starting Grants rank among the most coveted and significant European awards. Three young researchers from Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) convinced the selection committee of the European…
Markus Mittnenzweig of the Max Delbrück Center has been awarded a €1.5 million grant from the European Research Council. He and his team will build dynamic 3D models of how neighboring cells and gene activity guide early-stage embryonic zebrafish…
