Charité
Universitätsmedizin Berlin sees itself as a toplevel European location for medical research and patient care. Originally established in 1710 as a quarantine hospital outside the gates of Berlin, the Charité is inseparably linked with innovative scientifi c, medical and nursing achievements as well as with the names of outstanding physicians, including the pathologist Rudolf Virchow, the surgeon Ferdinand Sauerbruch and the founder of modern bacteriology, Robert Koch.