The Charité is one of the largest university hospitals in Europe. At the Charité, 3700 doctors and scientists heal, do research and teach at the top international level. More than half of the German Nobel Prize winners in medicine and physiology come from the Charité, among them Emil von Behring, Robert Koch and Paul Ehrlich. The Charité also has an international reputation for excel-lence in training. It extends over four campuses with almost 100 clinics and institutes bundled un-der 17 CharitéCenters. With 13,100 employees, the Charité generates about 1.4 billion euros in sales per year and is one of the largest employers in Berlin. In 2010, the Charité could look back and joyously celebrated its 300-year anniversary.
Healing and helping along with research and teaching are our main priorities at the Clinical center. With 640,000 outpatient and 140,000 inpatient cases yearly, the Charité has a wealth of medical expertise and experience.
Facts and Figures
Almost 100 clinics and institutes organized into 17 CharitéCenters
Four Berlin Campi with a total usable area of 540,000 square meters, 3,011 hospital beds, average hospital stay: 6.05 days
One of Berlin´s largest employer: 13,100 employees- of these, 3,700 scientists and doctors, 4,100 nurses and caregivers, 730 administrative personnel, and 230 professors. Group-wide, the Charité has 16,700 employees.
Patient data
approx. 4,600 babies delivered each year
approx. 6,300 surgeries conducted each month
approx. 850 transplantations carried out each year
140,000 inpatient cases yearly
640,000 outpatient cases yearly
Financial figures
1.4 billion Euros total revenue yearly
148 million Euros in third-party funding (2013)
195 million Euros in subsidies for teaching and research (2013)
Education
The Charité educates 7,000 students.
Research
There are over 4,500 scientists at the Charité Medical Faculty engaged in frontier biomedical re-search in countless projects, working groups and cooperations. The focus here is on translational interaction of experimental, molecular biological basic research with patient-oriented clinical appli-cation. On this basis, in 2013 the Faculty raised more than 148 million Euros from public and pri-vate investors (“third-party funds) to finance its research activities. This enabled it to secure a top position among the medical faculties in Germany and become the leader in Europe.
There already exist a large number of Charité research areas that are distinguished by national and international collaborative projects as well as interdisciplinary cooperations. In six selected areas, the Charité is striving for a top position in the national and international research rankings, thus focusing on the following areas of research:
- Immunological sciences
- Cardiovascular research and metabolism
- Neurosciences
- Oncology
- Regenerative Therapies
- Rare diseases and genetics
The “Berlin Institute of Health (BIH)” research area jointly operated with the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) thereby complements the Charité research activities in a scientific focus on system medicine unique in Germany.
Particular emphasis is placed on the promotion of young researchers – notably young scientists. Moreover, the Charité is developing its own support programs and has set up various graduate academies, in which young scientists can undergo further qualification and specialization.
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