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Dear Reader,
In this May edition of our newsletter, we look back at this year’s Girls’ Day at the BIH: More than 100 schoolgirls gained insights into the work of biomedical scientists in ten different workshops. For many years now, the BIH has been participating in Girls’ Day to engage girls in the world of science and introduce them to female research leaders. Although today many women are pursuing careers in medicine and life sciences, the public continues to see science as male dominated. Through our BIH Girls’ Day program, we want to show schoolgirls that science can also be female. Sylvia Thun, Professor of Digital Medicine and Interoperability, provides a role model for them: She was recently appointed a member of the German Science and Humanities Council, the federal government’s scientific advisory body. We warmly congratulate her on this tremendous honor. And last but not least, this edition also provides information about many exciting calls for proposals by the BIH and our partners. Happy reading!
Your BIH Board of Directors, Christopher Baum and Doris Meder
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Researchers at the BIH around Petra Ritter, BIH Johanna Quandt Professor for Brain Simulation, have used brain simulations to develop a theory on the formation of traveling waves of activity. These waves influence cognitive processes in the human brain such as learning or remembering. Understanding traveling waves of activity can support in treating patients with cognitive disorders. The results of the study led by Petra Ritter have been published in Nature Communications and are part of the dissertation work of Dominik Koller, the first author of the publication. Read the press releaseRead the publication
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Professor Sylvia Thun is a doctor, graduate engineer and expert in IT standards in the healthcare sector. In April the Director of the Core Unit Digital Medicine and Interoperability at the BIH was appointed a member of the Medical Committee of the German Federal Government's Science Council. The German Council of Science and Humanities plays a decisive role in shaping the scientific landscape in Germany. It advises the federal and state governments on all matters relating to science, research, and higher education policy and is committed to promoting excellence and innovation in all scientific disciplines. We warmly congratulate! Read moreTo the video portrait with Sylvia Thun
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Max Rubner Award 2024 for BIH Researchers
At this year's Charité Frühlingsempfang, Stiftung Charité awarded the Max Rubner Award 2024. Since 2009, the foundation has used this award to support Charité employees who have important ideas for change and innovation in their clinic, institute or the Charité as a whole. This year, the jury selected two projects from a large number of applications that are particularly innovative and exemplary for the development of Charité. The winners will use the prize money as start-up funding to realize their ideas with an entrepreneurial approach. The first prize-winning team, which received prize money of 70,000 euros, also includes two scientists of the BIH Community: Professor Igor Sauer, Director of the BIH Charité Digital Clinician Scientist Program (DCSP) and Dr. Max Maurer, Fellow of the DCSP. Our warmest congratulations! Read more (in German)
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News From Charité BIH Innovation (CBI)
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The BoneGuide team has come a step closer to making its transformative bone healing technology accessible to healthcare providers and patients alike. BoneGuide is a project of Charité and is managed by Charité BIH Innovation. On May 1, 2024, Aaron Herrera and his team officially entered the first phase of the Exist Transfer of Research program and will receive funding of 1.2 million euros. EXIST is a funding program of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK) for start-ups from science. The Exist Transfer of Research program in particular supports research-based start-up projects that are associated with complex and high-risk development projects. Congratulations!
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News From the BIH QUEST Center
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The newest update of the Charité Metrics Dashboard has been uploaded – with data on publications from 2022. In addition to monitoring whether research data or code have been shared openly, the dashboard has been updated to report the use of data or code availability statements. Along with these and other core Open Science metrics, the dashboard now also features broader transparency metrics (see Cobey et al. 2023) on the use of Authorship Statements, as well as the use of ORCIDs in articles with Charité or BIH corresponding authors. Learn more about the dashboard
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News From the BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy (BIA)
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Livius Penter Receives DKMS John Hansen Research Grant
Dr. med. Livius Penter, fellow of the BIH Charité Digital Clinician Scientist Program and medical doctor in the Department of Hematology, Oncology and Tumor immunology at campus CVK, has won the DKMS John Hansen Research Grant for his innovative research in the field of stem cell transplantation. With support of the award, Livius Penter will use his single cell RNA sequencing method nanoranger, recently published in Nature Communications, to track therapeutic responses of leukemias following immunotherapy. In the long term, Livius Penter aims to develop single cell sequencing approaches such as nanoranger as a platform for clinical diagnostics, for example as a tool for monitoring measurable residual disease (MRD) and immune function after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Congratulations! Read more on the website of the DKMS (in German) Read the publication about nanoranger
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Tharusan Thevathasan Awarded by the DGK
Beginning of April, Dr. med. Tharusan Thevathasan was awarded the "Hans-Blömer-Young Investigator Award" by Professor Holger Thiele (DGK president; left side of the photo) for his research at the annual meeting of the Germany Society of Cardiology (DGK) in Mannheim. Tharusan Thevathasan is fellow of the BIH Charité Digital Clinician Scientist Program and a medical doctor in the Department of Cardiology, Angiology and Intensive Care Medicine of the Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité (Campus Benjamin Franklin). Apart from his clinical work on the cardiac intensive care unit under the supervision of Professor Carsten Skurk (right side of the photo), his current research is dedicated to early prognostication of patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in 50 European centres under the supervision of Professor Steffen Desch (Herzzentrum Leipzig; joined virtually on the photo). Congratulations!
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News From the Staff Office Equal Opportunities
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From May 27-31, 2024, the BIH is organizing a Diversity Week for the first time. With the Diversity Week, we want to celebrate the inclusive research and work culture at the BIH, raise awareness of diversity, equality and inclusion, network and support each other. Events will be held in German and/or English and we offer face-to-face, online and hybrid formats and guests are welcome: The keynote speech by Dr. Bontu Guschke (Monday, 27.5.2024), the BIH Diversithon – a Wikipedia writing workshop on women and other groups underrepresented in science (Wednesday, 29.5.2024) and a digital consultation hour on hate speech and cyberbullying with Prof. Dr. Konstanze Marx (Friday, 31.5.2024) are available for external participants.
To the registration
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This year, the BIH once again took part in the nationwide Girls' Day. More than 100 girls gained insights into the work of scientists in biomedicine in ten different workshops. More than 25 scientists from ten different BIH working groups prepared a three-hour program for the schoolgirls and showed them how diverse research is when it comes to identifying diseases, developing therapies and curing people. The participants were enthusiastic about the exchange with technical assistants, PhD students and even professors. We would like to thank everyone involved for their commitment! Read more
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All BIH events are noted in our event calender. If you would like to receive a regular overview of upcoming BIH Events, please register here. Many thanks.
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Apply until July 8, 2024, for protected time to further your practice-informed research or pursue a clinically inspired project as an experienced senior physician (German “Oberarzt / Oberärztin”). A Clinical Fellow receives funding of up to 75,000 euros for a total period of up to 36 months for a project that serves their own further training, knowledge exchange or knowledge transfer. Pure research projects, however, are excluded. The funding is to be used in particular for temporary release from clinical obligations. Read more about the call
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Scientists and clinicians at all career levels at Charité, including the BIH, are invited to apply for the SPARK-BIH program with their translational projects in the fields of therapies and preventives (small molecules, biologics, ATMPs, gene and cell therapy, drug repurposing), medical devices and diagnostics in all medical fields. The funding consists of financing, mentoring, coaching and further training and extends over a period of 12-24 months. Project proposals can be submitted until July 8, 2024 (14:00 CET). SPARK-BIH is part of Charité BIH Innovation (CBI), the joint technology transfer of Charité and BIH.
More details about the call
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In the winter semester 2024/2025, the Berlin University Alliance is funding up to 16 X-Student Research Groups. The X-Student Research Groups are research teams made up of junior researchers and students. They are organized in the form of research seminars and usually run over the course of one semester. This gives junior researchers the opportunity to transfer their own research into teaching and to gather (initial) experience in managing research groups. Students who participate in the research project receive credit points. Deadline for applications is June 2, 2024. Read more about the call
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From August 2024, scientists from the Berlin Excellence Network who are enthusiastic about open science can pass on their knowledge to colleagues as "Open Science Ambassadors". In return, they will benefit from attractive training courses, network meetings and funding for their own open science events. The application deadline is June 3, 2024. The new program is organized by the Center for Open and Responsible Research (CORe) of the Berlin University Alliance (BUA).
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The Berlin University Alliance offers flexible funding for researchers or staff who wish to expand their collaboration with colleagues at the strategic partner institutions the University of Melbourne and the National University of Singapore. Tandems from both the Berlin University Alliance institutions and one of the above partner institutions are eligible to apply. We invite proposals for collaborative projects, such as the preparation of joint publications, joint teaching activities, the organization of workshops and/or exhibitions, staff exchange, and beyond. The maximum grant per project is set at 5,000 euros. The deadline for applications is June 3, 2024. Read more
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The Oxford Berlin Research Partnership between the University of Oxford and the Berlin University Alliance welcomes applications from early career researchers (postdocs and PhD students) for travel funds of up to 4,500 euros for short-term research stays in Oxford. Applications can now be submitted until May 28, 2024.
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