General Information

Integration into Berlin neuroscience structures

Berlin has a large and active neuroscience scene. This becomes obvious at our regular BNF (Berlin Neuroscience Forum) meeting which attracts more than 200 participants and has been initiated by members of the Charité. The Charité follows a policy of offering young, promising investigators independent research possibilities. Therefore, the faculty has established the Neuroscience Research Center, in which Frau Zipp currently has her labs. This center offers young investigators lab space and access to new technologies such as two-photon-microscopy. The Max Delbrück Center, the Max-Planck-Institutes, and the German Rheumatology Research Center (DRFZ) complement facilities at the Charité and serve as an extension to which the tutors have access via their involvement in various research interactions. There are already a number of ongoing activities in which our initiative integrates well. The Graduate School is complementary in part to the SFB 507 and SFB 650, as well as to new SFB initiatives with the aim of understanding common pathways of the immune/nervous system crosstalk.

The Graduate School will provide an excellent platform through which to acquire training in the neurosciences with a focus on neuroimmunology. Taken as a whole, the organization of the Graduate School, with its performance tests and individual supervision, its student- organized local and international seminars, its local and international rotations, and its close association with the International Masters - MD/PhD Program in Medical Neurosciences will result in an intensive and time-efficient program in an international environment.