- Imaging Network Berlin (INB)
- medtecnet-BB, Medical Technology Network Berlin-Brandenburg, currently comprises six companies and is coordinated by TSB Medici.
- Cooperation network Gesundheitswirtschaft Berlin-Brandenburg
- MOTIV – Medical Technology Competence Center for Miniaturized Monitoring and Intervention Systems; the partners involved are: the Fraunhofer-Institut for Biomedical technology IBMT in St. Ingbert and Laser- und Medizin-Technologie GmbH Berlin.
- Competence Network for Optical Technologies Berlin and Brandenburg (OpTecBB) focusing on biomedical optics; this is one of the seven regional competence centers approved and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
- Anwenderzentrum für Mikrotechnik (AZM) at BESSY in Berlin-Adlershof.
- Zentrum für Mikrosystemtechnik (ZEMI) Berlin-Adlershof (partner institutes: FBH, BAM, BESSY, Fraunhofer-IPK, Fraunhofer-IZM and the Institute for Microtechnology at TU Berlin)
- The Endocrinology Research Center at Charité (EnForCé)
- The research group Surgical Research Unit OP 2000
- TelePathology Consultation Center of the Union International Against Cancer (UICC-TPCC) at the Institute for Pathology of the Charité
- Of the 18 medical competence networks (major research projects supported by the BMBF) six in lead capacity are located in Berlin:
- Das project "Partnership for the Heart" of the Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology (BMWi) with partners in the clinical sector and industry is an associated project of the Cardiac Insufficiency competence network. It is being directed by the Medical Clinic for Cardiology & Angiology at Charité Campus Mitte.
- Networks supported by the BMWi under the NEMO program:
- ProVita - Network Mobility in Old Age
- The Coordination Center for Clinical Studies at Charité (KKS Charité) is one of 12 such centers in Germany.
- Of the three infection epidemiology networks of the BMBF, two are directed by scientists based in Berlin: Food-Induced Infections, Nosocomial Infections (SIR).
- Five competence centers for highly contagious and life-threatening diseases were established across Germany, one of them at Charité.
- The BMBF established the first of four German Bernstein Centers for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin in 2004. These centers (in Berlin, Göttingen, Munich and Freiburg) combine scientific expertise in all areas of brain research.
- Charité is currently the lead university for ten special research areas of the German Research Foundation (DFG) – an eminent role not paralleled by any other medical faculty in Germany. In addition, Charité is host to five DFG clinical research groups.
- Eight graduate colleges and seven junior scientist groups of the DFG
- The graduate school „Berlin School of Mind & Brain“, a joint initiative of the life, humanities and social sciences, is supported in the context of the Excellence Initiative (Speaker: Prof. Arno Villringer).
- The European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF) is located at Charité and operates in cooperation with the Allergy Center Charité and the European Allergy and Asthma Network Ga˛len.
- The Interdisciplinary Center Infection Biology and Immunity (Zibi) with some 30 research facilities in Berlin
- Center for Stroke Research Berlin (CSB)
- Berlin NeuroImaging Center (BNIC)
- Imaging Science Institut Charité - Siemens (ISI)
- Network for Better Medical Care (NBMC): Network of Berlin Hospitals
- Interdisciplinary research alliances, e.g. CellNet.Org, Regenerative Medicine Initiative Berlin RMIB
- The translation center „Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies“ is operated jointly by Charité and the Helmholtz Association.
- In the virtual Berlin Institute for Heart Research (BIHR), the Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC) of the Helmholtz Association as the lead facility cooperates with the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin campuses Virchow-Klinikum and Buch, the University of Bonn and the German Heart Center Berlin.
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