Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik
The Institut für Medizinische Physik und Biophysik is part of the Charité, Berlin's university hospital. Its scientists come from the natural sciences and from medicine. Together they pursue biophysics and structural biology, asking how biological systems work at the molecular level. You find this work in the heart of Berlin.
Several project groups take on different scientific questions. One group works on ribosomes, the molecular machines that translate genetic information into proteins, while others follow signal transduction between cells. The toolkit includes cryo-electron microscopy and X-ray crystallography, both highly advanced. Collaboration stretches across Germany and around the world. The Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics and a synchrotron facility in Grenoble, France, count among the partners.
Education belongs here as much as research does: courses run in the model medical curriculum and the regular dentistry programme. Students from different educational backgrounds learn from one another, an exchange the institute encourages. Seminars and events shape the teaching, among them a postgraduate seminar for students writing their theses. There the young scientists present their own results, pick up new techniques and practise teamwork and time management.
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