Charité Clinic
About the clinic
More than half a million outpatients have received consultations at the Charité Clinic, of which about 10% are extramural consultations.
The Berlin Buch campus is home to the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) and the Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology (FMP) – leading the way in basic research.
Best Clinic 2024 according to FOCUS
For the twelfth time in a row, Charité was ranked first in the overall ranking of German clinics published by Focus Gesundheit magazine.
The clinic ranks sixth in the international ranking of the American magazine Newsweek, is among the top ten in the world and is the best clinic in Europe The German Charité Clinic is a world-renowned medical institution represented by four multidisciplinary campuses. Three of them are therapeutic and diagnostic, they are the Charité Mitte, Benjamin Franklin and Virchow-Klinikum campuses. The fourth campus in the northeast of Berlin, Berlin Buch, is a fully research campus, where all clinical trials and research at the Charité Clinic are centered. At the clinic, specialists help patients with the most serious conditions. The newest operating rooms are equipped with the latest Da Vinci robot models for high-precision interventions, which is especially important for neurotumors. Molecular diagnostic methods used at the Interdisciplinary Cancer Center allow sequencing the genome of tumor cells and selecting the most effective, “spot” therapy. In addition, the oncology departments at Charité have the latest chemotherapy drugs. Together with the Helmholtz Center Berlin (HZB), doctors have been performing proton therapy for melanoma of the eye since 1998. This not only preserves the eyeball as a whole, but also the patient’s vision. A course of irradiation usually consists of 4 sessions within a week. The innovative CyberKnife technology in the radiology department is used to precisely irradiate the damaged tissue. Even body movements caused by breathing are taken into account. The Institute of Medical Immunology is actively developing at Charité. The main task of the specialists is diagnostics and treatment of immunodeficiencies in children and adults and chronic fatigue syndrome in adults. The Institute has its own immunological laboratory. Every year in the German cardiology center “Charité” DHZC doctors perform more than five hundred endovascular surgeries for chronic heart failure against the background of diseases of the heart and its valves: transcatheter implantation of the aortic valve (TAVI) and transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVI). Moreover, this type of treatment is available in patients even after heart transplantation.