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About Us > Achievements
Research, Studies & White Papers
1. Individual projects
• BMEP “Biomedical
Sciences Exchange Program between North America and Europe
BMEP Inc.”
The exchange program was initiated in 1979 and became a
special partner of the GWT (Reg. Ass.), now the IALS (Reg.
Ass.), through the Biomedical Network Europe (BMNE) in 1992.
It serves to promote the progress of young scientific academics
and technology transfer by allocating places at universities
and research institutes (approx. 30 participants p.a.) and
conducting workshops. Since 1990 it has been a non-profit
organization in the USA (BMEP Inc.) and a cooperation partner
of the IALS (Reg. Ass.) in Europe. In 1996, the Berlin Biomedical
Exchange Office (BBEO) was opened as a partner of the medical
faculties at the Free University of Berlin, the Humboldt
University of Berlin and the Public Health Cooperation at
the Technical University of Berlin. It is also a partner
of the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin-Buch.
• “ZT Biomedizin –
Zentrum Technologietransfer Biomedizin Bad Oeynhausen GmbH”
(Bad Oeynhausen Center for Technology Transfer in Biomedicine)
The Center promotes cooperation between science, research
and industry within the fields of biomedicine and health
in the East-Westphalian region. It is a partner of the University
of Bielefeld. In 1991/2 a new Center building was erected,
with 2400 m2 of available floor space for – at present
– 18 small companies. Their main areas of focus are:
biotechnology, medical technology, computer science in medicine,
pharmacology, etc. In 2001 the Center was taken over by
the Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Bad Oeynhausen.
• “Umweltanalytik Brandenburg
GmbH” (Brandenburg Environmental Analyses) and “Stiftung
August Bier für Ökologie und Medizin” (August
Bier Ecology and Medicine Foundation)
The company was founded with approx. 60 employees in 1990,
in cooperation with the August Bier European Society for
Ecology and Medicine (Reg. Ass.) in Berlin. The company
and its Foundation provide services ranging from chemical
and physical analyses to the sanitation of contaminated
ground, refuse tips and industrial plants.
• “SysTA Biomed –
Institut für System- und Technologieanalysen der GBM
mbH” (GBM Institute for Systems and Technological
Analyses)
A spin-off from ZT Biomedizin and since 1992 affiliated
to GBM mbH. Its main areas of focus are: technology assessment
in biomedicine, molecular epidemiology and in vitro pharmacotoxicology.
• “Biotechnikum an
der Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, Mecklenburg/Vorpommern”
(Biotechnical Institute at the University of Greifswald
in Mecklenburg - West Pomerania)
Conceptional drafting and realization with a focus on application-oriented
research and development in the biomedical sciences. In
close association with the medical and scientific faculties
of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald. Founded
in 1996.
• “OWL-W.E.G.: Wellness,
Ernährung und Gesundheit am Wirtschaftsstandort Ostwestfalen”
(Wellness, Nutrition and Health in the Economic Region of
East-Westphalia)
A joint project between university institutes, companies
(foodstuffs industry, spa and rehabilitation clinics), banks
and municipal authorities. Pilot projects: 1) “HEGO”
– House Nutrition and Health in NRW; 2) “IALS”
– International School Health & Nutrition; 3)
German Research Association Mercator professorship “Future
of Health Care: The Social Contract and the Impact of Life
Sciences. A comparison between Germany and the United States.”
awarded to Prof. Robert Rich, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Bearer: Charité, Humboldt University of Berlin. Cooperation
partners: Free University of Berlin, Einstein Forum Potsdam,
Medical University of Hanover, University of Bielefeld (2000-2003).
• Cooperation with OWP Architects to implement a "China Civil Aviation Museum"
Currently under construction at a site near the Beijing International Airport, sponsored by the Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC), and expected to be used in full before the Olympics in 2008.
2. In the area of public health & public police
• On practical training in
caring for the sick and elderly
(Expert’s report produced in German for the Berlin
Senate Health Administration, 1993)
• On the quantitative and
qualitative improvement of care, with particular focus on
training and further training
(Special NRW health report produced in German for Institute
for Documentation and Information, Social Medicine and Public
Health, IDIS, 1993)
• Expert’s report on
practical nursing training in Berlin
(Produced in German for the Berlin Senate Health Administration,
1993)
• German Research Association
(DFG) Mercator professorship “Future of Health Care:
The Social Contract and the Impact of Life Sciences.
A comparison between Germany and the United States.”
to guest Prof. Robert Rich, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
Bearer: Charité, Humboldt University of Berlin, in
cooperation with Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, University
of Bielefeld, University of Lüneburg (2002-2004)
• Visiting Scholarships, Max
Planck Institute for Foreign and International Social Law,
Munich, Germany, to guest Prof. Robert Rich, University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (Spring 2007).
Charité University Medicine Berlin
3. In the areas of molecular epidemiology
and in vitro pharmacotoxicology
• Recording nephrotoxicological
damage in cases of exposure to lead and cadmium at work
using new early indicators and with a special focus on the
situation in the new German states
(Bearer: German Ministry for Research and Technology, within
the framework of the Employment and Technology Program,
1992)
• Studies to evaluate the
toxic and pharmacological activities of biotechnological
molecules in renal cells using molecular and cell biological
methods
(Conducted in cooperation projects at the Medical University
of Hanover within the BRIDGE program of the European Community
Commission, 1993-94)
• Studies on and validation
of early nephrotoxicity markers for risk detection in the
wider population – use in children
(Conducted in cooperation projects within the Environment
program of the European Community Commission, 1995-96)
4. In the areas of biotechnology and
SME promotion
• Brandenburg-Gosener Berge
Park for Science, Environmental Issues and Technology and
Brandenburg-Märkische Schweiz Research Park
Conceptional drafting with a focus on application-oriented
research and development in the biomedical and health sciences,
close to science and university as a dependency and project
partner of the Humboldt University of Berlin/ Charité
and the University of Potsdam.
(Produced in German for the state of Brandenburg, 1990-1993)
• Status and prospects of
genome analysis
A status report on state-of-the-art technology, the type
and extent of its use and the prospects for its development
in the fields of human genetics, industrial medicine, insurance,
criminal and civil law.
(Produced in German for the German Parliament, 1992 –
see also book publication K. Bayertz et al., 1995)
• Prospects for the application
and regulation of genome analysis in the areas of human
genetics, insurance, criminal and civil law
A status report.
(Produced in German for the German Parliament, 1992 –
see also book publication K. Bayertz et al., 1995)
• Model and demonstration
project on the advising of small and medium-sized enterprises
in the field of biomedicine – coordination, networking,
foreign activities
Individual project to promote national and international
activities in small and medium-sized enterprises, concentrating
on the Ruhr region.
(Produced in German for the NRW Ministry of Economy, Medium-Sized
Enterprises, Technology and Traffic, 1995)
• Gene transfer of human
somatic cells. State-of-the-art technology, medical risks,
social and ethical problems status report.
(Produced in German for the German Ministry of Research
and Technology, 1993)
• Foreign economy/ NRW and
growth market biomedicine/ USA
Pilot study “Transatlantic BioMedCenter, TBMC”.
(Produced in German for the NRW Ministry of Economy, Medium-Sized
Enterprises, Technology and Traffic, 1995)
• Genetic diagnostics between
research and the marketplace (a study of status and potential)
Authors: Rainer Paslack, Matthias Blanke
(Produced in German for the NRW Ministry of Economy, Medium-Sized
Enterprises, Technology and Traffic, 1995-97)
• Future market genetic diagnostics
Presentation of the economic aspects behind “Genetic
diagnostics between research and the marketplace (a study
of status and potential)”.
Author: Rainer Paslack
(Produced in German for the NRW Ministry of Economy, Medium-Sized
Enterprises, Technology and Traffic, 1997)
• Agency project: St Petersburg
Center for Biomedical Technology Transfer and Predictive
Medicine and Study project: Development of a strategy in
the life sciences in the Baltic area (St Petersburg region)
(Produced in cooperation with PPR Diagnostics Ltd. London
and with financial support from the Directorate General
for Research, European Parliament, 1995-97)
• Cooperation project GBM/TCE
Castrop-Rauxel
Joint projects and individual initiatives, expansion of
the existing technology center for transfer and founder
activation, 1996-98.
• Internationalization and
life sciences
Innovation project in Brandenburg (“School of International
Management in the Life Sciences”).
(For the Potsdam Ministry of Economy, Medium-Sized Enterprises
and Technology, 1999-2001)
• New options with genetic
diagnostics
Author: Rainer Paslack
(Produced in German for the NRW Ministry of Economy, Medium-Sized
Enterprises, Technology and Traffic, 2000-01)
• OWL-W.E.G. Wellness, nutrition
and health
Bearer: Johanniter Ordenshäuser gemGmbH, Bad Oeynhausen.
Funding: NRW Ministry of Economy, Medium-Sized Enterprises,
Technology and Traffic, Düsseldorf, 2000-05.
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