Charité – Medical University Berlin – has a total of 3,500 beds and 15,000 employees in over 80 medical departments and institutes. Renowned physicians, distinguished specialists and eminent experts working together at the Charité University Medicine, a situation which in itself is unique in Europe
The technical medical appliances and equipment plus the expertise and top qualifications of the consultants and professors go to make for a first-class healthcare supply of high quality.
Medical Research and the application of its findings are the heartbeat of the Charité University Medicine Berlin. Around 55 affiliated scientific institutes are inter-connected – among which are those of the calibre of the famous Max-Plank-Institute for Infectious Biology, the Robert-Koch Institute and the Charité Institute of Micro-Biology and Virology – assuring our patient’s ongoing first-class medical care, even in the future
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 excellence in training.
In 2010, the Charité could look back and joyously celebrated its 300-year anniversary.