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Cystic fibrosis is a hereditary disease that so far has been incurable. Those affected have thick, viscous mucus secretions in their lungs, and lung function diminishes steadily over time. Today, triple combination therapy makes it possible…

He went down in medical history: the “Berlin Patient,” the first person in the world to be cured of HIV, following a stem cell transplant at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Now, a team from Charité has repeated this extremely rare…

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Israel impressively demonstrated how efficient patient data collection can be used to advance research into the prevention of infections and development of therapies. One of Israel's largest healthcare…

Today Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, together with Bayer AG, presented plans for the construction of the Berlin Center for Gene and Cell Therapies. The project is being substantially financed and supported by Germany’s Federal…

Multiple myeloma is one of the most common forms of cancer of the immune cells in the bone marrow. It is considered incurable. Even when patients respond to treatment at first, the cancer comes back. To be able to intervene faster and on a…

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs), a specific class of antacid drugs, are among the most widely used medications of all. They are frequently prescribed to many groups of patients, including those with rheumatism. PPIs are used to prevent the…

Prof. Wiedemann war von 1997 bis 2019 Direktor der Medizinischen Klinik für Hepatologie und Gastroenterologie an der Charité. Bis heute leitet er den NET-Forschungsbereichs der Klinik. Während seiner Amtszeit als Klinikdirektor…

Every year, the Friends of the Charité honors wards with the patient award that have been rated particularly well by those treated there. The awards are recognition for the extraordinary nursing services that are provided every day…

With the Young Investigator Award, ESCMID honors Dr. Leistner's holistic approach, in which he draws on information from microbiological diagnostics, clinical courses, patient-related ICD codes and antibiotic consumption. Based on…

Prof. Surjo Soekadar, Einstein Professor of Clinical Neurotechnology at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, works in the field of advanced technologies for brain stimulation and brain-computer interfaces. He and his team develop and…