Brandneu:

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Christian Wenger (IHP – Leibniz Institute of Innovative Microelectronics) appointed to professor of microelectronics in medical technology.

Medical students honour Stefanie Oess, MHB professor of biochemistry, with the teaching award 2018 as the best instructor. Philip Tschorn, secand year medical student and member of the prize committee of the student initiative who created the award last year, underlines that students want to thank their instructors for excellent teaching and outstanding dedication.

The Federal Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe made a fundamental ruling yesterday: the allocation of study places in medicine at state universities must follow different rules in future. Other criteria apart from school-leaving grades are to be taken into account. A report in the TV news magazine “ZDF heute journal” addresses the Brandenburg medical model curriculum in detail and also the individual selection procedures which already meet and consider many of the requested criteria.

Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) supports new register projects. This funding aims to create new and specifically patient-related registers of model character and high quality on important aspects of health services research.

Andreas Winkelmann, MHB professor of anatomy, researches the history of anatomy in the Third Reich. In a recent lecture at the Charité he explored the work of the Berlin anatomist Hermann Stieve (1886-1952) and his collaboration with nazi justice.

Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Prof. h.c. Dr. h.c .Christos C. Zouboulis, Professor of Dermatology, Venerology und Allergology at the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane (MHB) and senior physician at the Municipal Clinics of Dessau, received the Publons Peer Review Award 2017 for comprehensive national and international peer review activities. A global ranking of peer reviewers of scientific papers was published in September 2017 and awarded him position no. 68. Taking only the German experts included in the list, Prof. Zouboulis even reached 13th place. This places Zouboulis among the best 1 % of all peer reviewers.

Last semester the Department of Psychology introduced, and now resumes, a regular research colloquium as a forum for scientific exchange and to increase the visibility of psychological research at MHB.

MHB welcomed 67 new students of psychology – 59 Bachelor and 8 Master students – with an official ceremony attended by ca. 200 guests in the main building of the Ruppin clinics. Corresponding figures for last year: 36 Bachelor and 7 Master students.

Two groups of nine MHB students respectively visited the Sana Kliniken Sommerfeld for a week and gained insights into surgical and conservative orthopaedics.

Up to 13 MHB students may receive a scholarship of 300 EUR per month in 2018. 150 EUR come from private donors, another 150 from the Federal Government.

Prof. Dr. Johanna Wanka, Minister of Education and Research and member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s federal government, visited the campus in Brandenburg an der Havel to learn about special features in teaching and research at the Brandenburg Medical School.

Tankred Stöbe (Médecins sans frontières) visited the Brandenburg Medical School on Wednesday. In the ceremonial hall of the Ruppiner Kliniken he gave a public lecture on current global migratory movements and the challenges involved, reported on the medical situation of refugees in the Mediterranean area and put forward political demands.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Jungraithmayr, professor of thoracic surgery at the Brandenburg Medical School, was honoured with the renowned Walter Brendel Award as best lecturer at the 52^nd Meeting of the European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR) in Amsterdam. His topic: induction of persistent tolerance to lung transplants.

Quality improvement in tomorrow’s health care was in the focus of the 5th DNVF Forum in Berlin on 10 May 2017. Leading quality and patient safety researchers discussed latest approaches to and concepts of quality oriented health services control in the health care sector. The network accepted the Brandenburg Medical School (MHB) as a new member at its general meeting prior to the Forum.

Scientists at several Brandenburg research institutions have started a collaborative research project on “consequences of age-associated cell and organ functions” to explore the causes of diseases occurring prevalently in older people like cancer or cardiovascular disorders, and to develop adequate treatment options.

Participants explored and discussed the current state of research at MHB.

Medical society honours Prof. Winkelmann as author of Paper of the Month