Institute for Biochemistry (DAW)

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The Institute for Biochemistry of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) was a non-university research institute in the German Democratic Republic (GDR) based in Berlin-Buch .

It was created on October 1, 1961 from the biochemistry department of the Institute for Medicine and Biology founded in Buch in 1947 . Karl Lohmann became the institute's first director . As his successor after retiring due to old age, Kurt Repke acted from 1964 , who had switched from the University of Greifswald to the Institute for Medicine and Biology in 1955 and established a department for steroid chemistry there from 1959.

With effect from January 1, 1972, the Central Institute for Molecular Biology (ZIM) emerged from the institute and the Academy Institutes for Biophysics , Pharmacology and Cell Physiology . After German reunification, the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine emerged from the ZIM and the central institutes for cancer research and cardiovascular research, which are also located in Berlin-Buch .

literature

  • The Institutes of Medicine and Biology 1947–1971. In: Heinz Bielka : History of the medical-biological institutes Berlin-Buch. 2nd Edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-540-42842-8 , pp. 68-93