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Inga Bergen, magnosco
03.05.2018

Kick the tires and light the fires

How Adlershof-based companies deal with the dry spells before regulatory approval for new medicine:

Obtaining approval for new products in medical technology can drag on. This can be life-threatening for business founders. How do Adlershof-based companies deal with these dry spells? Germs in hospital are becoming a…

Prof. Ulf Leser
03.05.2018

Search Engines for Personalised Cancer Medicine

HU computer scientists want to facilitate decision-making of medical professionals by improved data analysis:

When a patient is diagnosed with a malignant tumour, the question is what the appropriate treatment is: operation or therapy? Which one is better? Ulf Leser, a professor for knowledge management in bioinformatics at…

Epimune
03.05.2018

Robust Immune Diagnostics

The young company Epimune GmbH is detecting immune diseases with epigenetic methods:

Epimune GmbH is a young Adlershof-based company. Yet, its developments in immune diagnostics are founded on established procedures. The start-up has its sights on inherited and acquired immune disorders and leukaemia.…

Janina Kneipp
03.05.2018

The Analytical Sciences Keep on Dancing

The “Make & Measure Project” is continuing the successful work of SALSA, the Graduate School of Analytical Sciences Adlershof:

The big party might be over, but as Janina Kneipp sees it, SALSA will keep on dancing. She is one of the speakers of SALSA, alongside Ulrich Panne, and a professor at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. SALSA is an…

Genetek: Riddhi Patel, Alexander Grail
02.05.2018

Highly insightful genes

Start-up Genetek Biopharma is developing sets for DNA testing:

Doctors require suitable aids and appliances to detect hereditary diseases and genetic defects. The international start-up Genetek Biopharma is striving to fill that gap with its DNA testing sets. Moreover, the…

Andreas Stadler
01.05.2018

Table 4.0

System 180 GmbH develops inspiring office environments:

Agile work cultures in companies are key to master the diverse challenges of the digital age. Even large corporations are realising this. They are opening innovation labs, factories and hubs that foster creativity…

ICULTA © Advanced UV for Life/Priti Gupta
27.04.2018

Interesting insights regarding ultraviolet LEDs at ICULTA-2018

Heavy rush at the conference which was organized by ‚Advanced UV for Life‘ and ‚International Ultraviolet Association‘:

The conference’s organizers expected 150 registrations – finally more than 260 participants from 23 countries took part in the ICULTA-2018 – International Conference on UV LED Technologies & Applications 2018 in…

Credit: HZB
26.04.2018

HI-SCORE international research school: Kick Off Meeting in Berlin

The international research school on solar energy promotes exchange between Germany and Israel and excellent conditions for PhD students:

With a two day kick off meeting at Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) the Helmholtz International Research School HI-SCORE on solar energy research has started. To accomplish this, HZB is collaborating with the Weizmann…

Phosphorus granulates. Source: BAM
25.04.2018

Fertilisers of the Future

The Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM) is developing processes for phosphorus recycling from sewage sludge:

(Almost) nothing works without phosphorus: all living creatures need this nutrient and must absorb it from their food. Although phosphorus is a valuable raw material and its supply is limited, large amounts of it are…

© HZB/J. Bierbaum
19.04.2018

Calls for rapid planning of BESSY III

Evaluation by international panel of experts supports HZB:

The Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) has received an evaluation of “excellent” in a review of science programmes undertaken at all Helmholtz Research Centres. This provides the foundation for future financing of HZB.…

Image: Sander Münster / HZDR
18.04.2018

Writing and deleting magnets with lasers

Scientists at BESSY II are encountering a completely new phenomenon:

Scientists at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) together with colleagues from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, USA have found a way to write and…

magnetosomes
18.04.2018

Bacteria with a magnetism sense

Experiments at BESSY II reveal how the inner compass is constructed:

Bacteria exist in many shapes and with very different talents. Magnetotactic bacteria can even sense the earth’s magnetic field by making use of magnetic nanoparticles in their interior that act as an internal…

Kramers Henneberger potential
17.04.2018

Freeing electrons to better trap them

For the first time, researchers from UNIGE and MBI in Berlin have placed an electron in a dual state - neither freed nor bound:

Atoms are composed of electrons moving around a central nucleus they are bound to. The electrons can also be torn away, overcoming the confining force of their nucleus, using the powerful electric field of a laser.…

Spectroscopy MBI
16.04.2018

From insulator to conductor in a flash

MBI scientists gain deep insights into the materials of the future using ultrashort laser pulses:

Over the past decades, computers have become faster and faster and hard disks and storage chips have reached enormous capacities. But this trend cannot continue forever: we are already running up against physical…

Adlershof Special 49 Cover
13.04.2018

Adlershof Special 49

Smart and networked:

Come together: Cooperations for good //  Grapevine and grey power: Tenants in the Coworking Space IM.PULS //  The bridge builders: Innovation and research at IRIS //

13.04.2018

Scientists from Max Born Institute report an ultrafast x-ray experiment

Wiggling atoms switch the electric polarization of crystals:

Ferroelectric crystals display a macroscopic electric polarization, a superposition of many dipoles at the atomic scale which originate from spatially separated electrons and atomic nuclei. The macroscopic…

Luis Sanz
13.04.2018

Clear priorities

Editorial by Luis Sanz, IASP Director General Spain:

The irruption of the science park concept meant a revolution in the way spaces to host businesses and, in general, economic activity were conceived. The rise of the knowledge economy engendered new technologies, new…

Events Berlin
13.04.2018

Cooperation projects are part of the Campus Adlershof DNA

Managers of the operating company WISTA consider themselves as architects of proximity:

Initiating, forging, and supporting cooperation projects is an essential ingredient of WISTA-MANAGEMENT GMBH’s contribution to the Adlershof recipe for success. “We are not only a site operator and property manager,…

Tianni Wei und Olga Mergenthaler
13.04.2018

Well networked for the future

Short paths are a good basis for cooperation projects – that are also funded by a fair number of initiatives in the Technology Park:

What do researchers work on? What innovations do companies need? Answers to these simple, yet essential questions can be found at “Economy Meets Science”, an annual event organised by Humboldt University of Berlin…

Think 3DDD: Tino Jacobi, Leonardo Lauer
13.04.2018

Grapevine and grey power

Tenants in Coworking Space IM.PULS benefit from each other:

“Sitting close together promotes contact,” claims Tobias Kirschnick, Head of the Innovation and Setup Centre and responsible for the coworking space IM.PULS inaugurated in November in Adlershof. This meets with José…