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SCIENION appoints Frauke Hein as CEO
Hein to lead as SCIENION plans for long-term profitable growth:
SCIENION GmbH, a BICO company and the precision liquid handling technology company powering life sciences and diagnostics for the future of health, today appointed Dr. Frauke Hein as co-Chief Executive Officer (CEO)…
Kathrin Goldammer appointed to Berlin Climate Protection Council
The council advises the Berlin Senate and the House of Representatives on issues of climate protection and energy policy:
RLI Managing Director Kathrin Goldammer had been appointed as a member of the Berlin Climate Protection Council by Berlin Senate’s resolution on 29th March 2022. Bettina Jarasch who is Senator for Environment,…
HZB and Sasol cooperate for sustainable aviation fuels
International consortium to advance decarbonisation of the aviation sector:
The company Sasol and Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) will lead a consortium to develop and optimise next-generation catalysts that will play a key role in decarbonising the aviation sector through sustainable aviation…
Shutdown at BESSY II
New supply technology ensures long-term operation of the electron storage ring in Adlershof:
The X-ray source BESSY II is in a three-month period of shutdown. During this period, the low voltage main distribution panel in the supply building outside the electron storage ring is being renovated. This will…
Opening of the AdMaLab at IRIS Adlershof
The incubator programme for materials science start-ups encourages interdisciplinary cooperation:
On 12 May 2022, representatives of INAM e.V. and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin welcomed numerous guests from business, politics, research and teaching to the opening event of the incubator programme “AdMaLab – The…
100 percent renewable energy for Uganda
Reiner Lemoine Institut starts country report on behalf of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF):
How can Uganda’s energy system be transformed into a system that runs on 100 percent renewable energy? This question will be answered by the Reiner Lemoine Institute on behalf of the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF)…
How electron spin coupling affects catalytic oxygen activation
New THz EPR spectroscopy method allows insights into previously inaccessible spin-spin interactions and the function of novel catalytic and magnetic materials:
A team at the EPR4Energy joint lab of HZB and MPI CEC has developed a new THz EPR spectroscopy method to study the catalytic activation of molecular oxygen by copper complexes. The method allows insights into…
Jan Lüning heads HZB Institute for Electronic Structure Dynamics
New institut develops techniques and infrastructures to investigate the dynamics of elementary microscopic processes in novel material systems:
The HZB Institute for Electronic Structure Dynamics, newly founded on 1 May, develops experimental techniques and infrastructures to investigate the dynamics of elementary microscopic processes in novel material…
The path to a real healthcare system
Essay by Dr. Paul Hammer, founder and CEO of BIOMES NGS GmbH:
Germany came in second behind Japan in a study rating the national health care systems of 24 OECD countries (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) conducted by the British job agency for medical…
In conversation with Axel Gutzmer
The trained plumbing and heating installer and graduate facility manager supervises two technology centres in the fields of biotechnology and environmental technology in Adlershof:
As the head of the two Centres of Biotechnology and the Environment, Axel Gutzmer is responsible for a total of 80 companies with around 1,000 employees who work in the fields of medicine/biomedicine, pharmaceutics,…
The peptide architect
Nadja Berger is conducting research on a novel vaccine platform in Adlershof:
A company in the start-up phase. A newly developed procedure, unique in the world. A young chemist. Nadja Berger had spent two years at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and wanted to head off to new…
Humboldt-Universität calls for donations
Sponsorship programme for students, doctoral candidates and researchers who have fled Ukraine:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) is very concerned to make it easier for the many refugee students, doctoral candidates and researchers from Ukraine to arrive in Germany. For this reason, Humboldt-Universität has…
Bioplastics from slaughterhouse waste and plant remains
In the process developed by ANiMOX GmbH, the bacterium Cupriavidus necator helps to obtain raw materials for fully degradable plastics:
Axel Höhling, managing partner of ANiMOX, remembers exactly when he had the idea to start his company. It was in late November 2000, just before his birthday, when the first cows in Germany were dropping dead due to…
Tropical dry forests are disappearing rapidly around the globe
Researchers from HU and Université Catholique de Louvain publish comprehensive global study on dry forest deforestation process in Nature Sustainability:
Dry tropical forests are important ecosystems, yet these forests are increasingly threatened, a new study discovers. An innovative approach to characterize how deforestation took place since 2000 showed that more than…
Eliminating harmful antibodies
Researchers of the “reCOVer” project, funded by the ministry of education, are testing a substance against Long Covid:
The infection is over – but the symptoms remain. Researchers worldwide are looking at where Long Covid comes from and what can be done against it. One of the triggers is an immune response gone off the rails. All…
Founder, not professor
Ingenious synthesis by GenoSynth:
When things get really complicated and customer from the chemical and pharmaceutical industry need synthesis of highly complex molecules or optimisation of elaborate processes, GenoSynth offers tailored solutions.…
Adlershof Journal May/June 2022
It’s magic! Fascinating biotechnology:
The healing effect: What biotechnology can achieve // reCOVer: BMBF project tests a substance against Long Covid // Sensitive work: Healthcare marketing by PEIX
Highly sensitive measurements for the smallest particles
An innovative single particle counter is contributing to improve quality of medicines and vaccines:
Reliably identifying solid particles in liquids is complicated when the smallest particles are on the nanometre scale (billionth of a metre) and the largest particles are on the micrometre scale, which is about a…
How plants repair themselves
A research group at the Helmholtz Centre Berlin has found the crucial genetic switch:
Plants are living things. They grow, breathe, and turn carbon dioxide into oxygen using photosynthesis. How this happens exactly hasn’t yet been researched down to the last detail. However, Gert Weber, biochemist and…
Sensitive work
The healthcare marketing experts of PEIX:
It is only since 2012 that it is legal to show medical work wear like scrubs in advertising and it is illegal to advertise prescription drugs and their “promise of efficacy”. “Marketing in every sector has its…