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“Courage and exceptional dedication” are the qualities that Dr. Peter Bobbert, president of the Berlin Medical Association, sees in those who were recently awarded the Georg Klemperer Prize. Prof. Duška Dragun was honored for her significant contribution to training a new generation of young clinical scientists in the medical profession. “We know – and we see it today more than ever – that we will only be able to meet future healthcare challenges if we support up-and-coming talent,” Bobbert emphasized.
The posthumously awarded prize was accepted by Prof. Britta Siegmund, interim director of the BIH Charité Clinician Scientist Program and head of the Department of Gastroenterology, Infectiology, and Rheumatology at Charité’s Campus Benjamin Franklin.
Prof. Duška Dragun was an internal medicine specialist with a subspecialty in nephrology. She was also director of the Biomedical Innovation Academy of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) and director of the BIH Charité Clinician Scientist Program. In 2011, Dragun created the first clinician scientist program in Berlin. Now it is not only by far the largest program of its kind in Germany (over 160 active fellows and about 200 alumni), but it also sets standards for the whole country. Now well established, the program’s goal is to integrate research activity into postgraduate training without significantly lengthening the time such training takes. When accepting the prize, Siegmund highlighted that “collaboration with the Berlin Medical Association has always been a decisive component of the BIH Charité Clinician Scientist Program’s success.” Therein lay Dragun’s outstanding contribution to creating a new generation of clinician scientists. In addition, she made highly respected, internationally renowned contributions to transplantation research. Her untimely death, at the age of 51, occurred on December 28, 2020.
“Duška Dragun’s work was a major step in preparing a new generation of young scientists for university medicine. We’re delighted to posthumously honor our dearly departed director, mentor, and friend,” said Dr. Nathalie Huber, interim head of the BIH Biomedical Innovation Academy (BIA) and head of the Clinician Scientist Office. Her colleague Dr. Iwan Meij, who shares the post of interim head of the BIA with her, added, “The approximately 200 fellows who have successfully completed the BIH Charité Clinician Scientist Program testify to her vision, her tireless dedication, and her incredible devotion to the project.”
The other winner of this year’s prize is Dr. Gül Schmidt, an oral and maxillofacial specialist and head of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin. She received the award in recognition of her commitment to children with cleft lips and palates. Schmidt has established a procedure that helps to keep newborns with specific congenital deformities from suffocating. It can also be used to treat an inability to suck or swallow. Furthermore, she supports the parents of such children with educational and information campaigns. Moreover, she often uses her vacation time to provide free medical care and operations to sick children in India, Vietnam, and other countries.
The Georg Klemperer Prize
Since 2007, the Berlin Medical Association has awarded the Georg Klemperer Prize to individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to patient care in Berlin and the reputation of the medical profession. The prize is named for Prof. Georg Klemperer (1865–1946), a doctor, researcher, editor, and university professor in Berlin. The son of a rabbi, he made Moabit Hospital a home of both humane and scientifically informed medicine. Under his direction, the hospital earned a reputation throughout Germany. Klemperer symbolizes virtues like unconditional dedication to patients and a willingness to take novel approaches to problems. His focus was always on the whole human being, as an organism endowed with a body and a soul. In 1935, Klemperer had to flee to the United States in the face of Nazi persecution.
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About the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH)
The mission of the Berlin Institute of Health at Charité (BIH) is medical translation: transferring biomedical research findings into novel approaches to personalized prediction, prevention, diagnostics and therapies and, conversely, using clinical observations to develop new research ideas. The aim is to deliver relevant medical benefits to patients and the population at large. As the translational research unit within Charité, the BIH is also committed to establishing a comprehensive translational ecosystem – one that places emphasis on a system-wide understanding of health and disease and that promotes change in the biomedical translational research culture. The BIH was founded in 2013 and is funded 90 percent by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and 10 percent by the State of Berlin. The founding institutions, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Association (MDC), were independent member entities within the BIH until 2020. Since 2021 the BIH has been integrated into Charité as its so-called third pillar. The MDC is now the Privileged Partner of the BIH.
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