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Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Institution
Section overview
Description
The Charité is one of the oldest hospitals in Germany and among the largest of university clinics in Europe today. With a history spanning almost three centuries, the Charité has produced eight Nobel prize winners and has a worldwide reputation for excellence in medicine and research. Currently, with a staff of more than 12,800 employees, the hospital handles 127,400 inpatient and 500,000 outpatient cases a year under the motto: 'Research, Teaching, Healing, Helping'.
Activities
- Research
Subordinate institutions
- Institute for Pharmacology
- Allergy Centre Charité
- Institute of Mikrobiology and Hygiene
- Institute of Pathology
- Institute of Molecular Biology and BioInformatics
- Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine
- Institute of Cell Biology and Neurobiology
- Medical Clinic of Infectious Diseases and Pneumology
- Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry and Pathobiochemistry
- Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology
Coordinated projects
- Breastfeeding and allergic diseases: To what extent breast feeding protects against atopic eczema and asthma in the first 10 years of life?
- Collaborative Project: Development of an allergen containing test-biscuit for special feeding of babys - the feeding kiss - subproject B
- Collaborative project: Establishment and validation of analytical methods for the detailed analysis of allergen profiles in foodstuffs and for the individual characterisation of its allergenic effect in patients - subproject F
- Collaborative project: The Smart Back - Establishment of a multimodal concept for the early detection of cow lameness - subproject A
- GI-MDH - Intestinal microbiome, nutrition and health: the importance of asthma, allergies and obesity
- Nutrition Report 2008: Chapter 7, 'Nutrition and Early Childhood embossing / acceleration'
- Nutritional and health status among people living in households with children at risk of poverty
- Zoonoses and food safety along global supply chains. Subproject: Consumer protection: risks of infection by food associated pathogens
Coordinated projects of subordinate institutions
- Collaborative Project RESET II: study to estimate the ESBL - prevalence, infection rates after colonization and population-specific risk factors for ESBL colonization and infection
- Role of the bacterial gut microbiota and innate immunity in Campylobacter jejuni-enteritis: Investigations in gnotobiotic mouse models of inflammation
Involved in research projects
- Analysis of the funtional interaction of the circadian rythm with the endocrine system for the establishment of sensitive in vitro test systems.
- Characterization of Chronic Hepatitis E in Germany: Molecular Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Clinic
- Collaborative project: Pathogen behavioural pattern and epidemiology of leptospires. Subproject 2
- Collaborative project: Pathogen behavioural pattern and epidemiology of leptospires. Subproject Puumala hantavirus: geographical distribution in the rodent reservoir and public health risk
- Collaborative project: Pathogen behavioural pattern and epidemiology of leptospires. Subproject Strengthening public health by understanding the epidemiology of rodent-borne diseases
- CORONA - CORSA - Inactivation of SARS-CoV-2 by UVC-light and human tolerance; TP2: In vitro determination of the virucidal effect of UVC radiation of different wavelengths on SARS-CoV-2 (CORSAvir).
- Cross-sector project 'AgroScapeLabs – Biodiversity Exploratories for agricultural landscapes
- Development and validation of molecular toxicological test methods for chemical safety: design and establishment of new in vitro and non-vertebrate testassays
- Development of a muscle specific ultrasound backscatter model to improve the non-invasive assessment of porcine meat quality
- Identification of gut microbiota which confer resistance against Campylobacter infection
- Improvement of next-generation sequencing methods for the detection of zoonotic pathogens
- Mechanisms of Critical Illness-induced Cognitive Dysfunction
- On the evaluation of carcinogenic risks due to the exposure against dioxin-like and non-dioxin-like compounds
- Optimizing the pain management in the mouse-osteotomy-model – Integration of a refinement study in a basic research study
- Organotin compounds and aromatase activity: in vivo investigations during the pre-, peri- and postnatal development of rats
- Pilot study investigating Leptospira serovars in wild boars
- Preventing and combating campylobacter infections: on track towards a 'One Health' approach
- SFB 852 Nutrition and intestinal microbiota - host interaction in the pig, Individual Project A2: Influence of nutritional factors on the prevalence of viruses, including viruses with zoonotic potential, in faeces of clinically healthy pigs
- Studies on the metabolism of azo dyes in clothing textiles and cosmetics: Evidence of azo cleavage by skin bacteria and characterization of metabolites
- The influence of different acrylamide concentrations on the transcription of selected genes in cell cultures analyzed by microarrays. Analysis of the biofunctionality of acrylamide
Contact
Charité - University Medicine Berlin
Charitéplatz 1
10117 Berlin
Berlin
Germany
Phone: +49-(0)30 450 - 50