Biotop-report 2014

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BioTOPics 47 | May 2014 

BioTOP-Report

  Bioelectronics  

The Leibniz Institute IHP – Innovations for High Performance 

Micro 

electronics – in Frankfurt (Oder) is part of  the Leibniz 

 

Association and has a long tradition in the area of  silicon-based 

microelectronics. The IHP has a clean room at its disposal for the 

pilot serial production of  200-mm Si wafers in which microchips 

are processed at the 0.25 and 0.13 µm structure levels. A family of  

SiGe: C-based hetero bipolar transistors for realizing frequencies 

in the low 100 GHz range is the core of  IHP technology. As part 

of  IHP’s multi-project wafer services, external customers may use 

the technology for the fabrication of  application-specific integrat-

ed circuits.

The TU Bioprocess Engineering chair conducts research on the 

characterization of  industrial-scale bioprocesses and methods for 

consistent, faster bioprocess development. The chair runs a bio-

process pilot plant with advanced analytical instruments, on-line 

instrumentation and an analytical laboratory for comprehensive 

metabolomics analysis. Its key instruments are proprietary, scale-

down two- and three-compartment bioreactors, which enable the 

simulation of  large-scale industrial processes in the lab. The char-

acterization of  biogas plants, brewery reactors and reactors in 

industrial biotechnology with new PAT and model-based process 

control for improving their robustness are a major focus. For this 

highest honor offered by ESPE, the European Society for Paediatric Endocrinol-

ogy: the Andrea Prader Award 

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 New Helmholtz post-graduate school for 

researching biomaterials opens

OCTOBER 2013

Fraunhofer researchers receive an international award for ArtCornea

®

, their 

artificial cornea 

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 The capital has healthcare in focus: Berlin Health Week 

celebrates its launch 

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Sanofi endows two new professorships in the public 

health field at Centre Virchow-Villermé, the newly established German-French 

research institute, in its Berlin and Paris locations 

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Charité opens the inten-

sive care station of  the future

NOVEMBER 2013

NeuroProAllianz receives Technical University of  Applied Sciences Wildau 

research award Dr. Jean-Yves 

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K. Tano from the University of  Toledo arrives 

in Berlin after receiving an Alexander von Humboldt fellowship 

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Charité 

coordinates the national network of  biobanks 

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Immunologist Prof. Klaus 

Rajewsky from MDC Berlin awarded the Society for Signal Transduction medal 

of  honor

DECEMBER 2013

Charité opens pioneering robotics operating room 

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Scientists from Charité 

present new approaches toward improving breast cancer therapy as part of  

the RESPONSIFY EU research project

JANUARY 2014

Under the leadership of  Cornelia Weikert from the German Institute of  Human 

Nutrition (DIfE), a team of  scientists has discovered a new biomarker for heart 

failure in the general population 

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Researchers at MDC Berlin have acquired 

new knowledge of  the body's regulation of  insulin production for insulin resis-

tance, the root of  type 2 diabetes 

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The biochemist and protein crystallogra-

pher Prof. Oliver Daumke from MDC Berlin-Buch receives European Research 

Council funding worth millions 

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BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg strengthens bio-

materials research network with Helmholtz Center Geesthacht in Teltow

FEBRUARY 2014

MPIKGPotsdam director Prof. Peter Seeberger and the director of  the NII in 

New Dehli, India agree to intensify their partnership for researching infec-

tious diseases 

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Researchers at MDC decipher the creation of  new forms 

of  hereditary Alzheimer’s disease and discover new protective mechanisms 

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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Moldcular Plant Physiology in 

Potsdam-Golm discover new adapter proteins for the reception of  substances 

in plant cellss 

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The Berlin Institute of  Health (BIG) acquires Thomas Südhof, 

Noble Prize for medicine co-awardee, as visiting fellow

MARCH 2014

Two dozen Fraunhofer Society institutes establish the Big Data Alliance 

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MDC receives 3-Tesla MRI scanner for the largest long-term German popula-

tion study 

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MDC researchers discover the molecular switch for epilepsy 

APRIL 2014

Berlin Institute for Health Research launches first research projects 

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Hans-

Hilger Ropers awarded with the “EURORDIS Scientific Award 2014” for his 

research on rare diseases

PD Dr. Mario Birkholz

Head of  Joint Lab Bioelectronics

IHP GmbH

Leibniz-Institut für innovative Mikroelektronik

By establishing the IHP and TUB Joint Lab Bioelectronics, we 

have created the opportunity for a successful interdisciplinary 

partnership. Through it, we will be able to translate the prog-

ress made in microelectronics directly into biotechnological 

applications and university education.

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