Molecular Medicine Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Overview

Key Features

The Master's Program in Molecular Medicine from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, affiliated with the Charité hospital in Berlin, is a two year, interdisciplinary program. The goal of the program is to provide students with a solid theoretical background in the molecular pathology of disease, as well as hands on training in corresponding techniques practiced both in the research laboratory and the clinic. Furthermore, the program seeks to educate students to recognize basic scientific questions in clinical findings, as well as translate laboratory discoveries into medical treatments. Upon successful completion, students should be able to formulate questions from a clinical perspective, and then suggest, as well as carry out, research strategies to develop answers. Graduates of the program are well prepared to enter highly selective medical schools or Ph.D. programs throughout the world. They also have the option to work in industry or government agencies.

Within the last few years the explosion of novel research strategies available in molecular biology has finally begun to overlap with the clinical experience of medical doctors. The result is nothing less than the generation of a new field, namely molecular medicine. Here scientist's knowledge of the fundamental operations within cells can finally be widely applied, not just to the understanding of disease, but more significantly, to the development of treatments.

While the promise of this new approach is great, it lacks scientists who have been specifically trained in its theory and practice. The shortage stems from the fact that, traditionally, medicine and the biological sciences have developed relatively separate systems of higher education: separate locations, curriculums, professors, and most importantly, separate goals.