Institute for Biophysics (DAW)

The Institute for Biophysics 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 physics department of the Institute for Medicine and Biology founded in Buch in 1947 . Fritz Lange acted as founding director of the institute . After he retired in 1964 for reasons of age, Karlheinz Lohs was appointed as his successor, who later became head of the research center for chemical toxicology at the Academy in Leipzig . In the same year, the institute changed organizationally from the Academy's medical department to the North Physics department. The main focus of research at the institute was radiation biology .

In 1968 the Biophysics Department of the Institute for Nuclear Research in Dresden-Rossendorf was assigned to the Bucher Institute as a branch. With effect from January 1, 1972, the Central Institute for Molecular Biology (ZIM) emerged from the institute and the Academy Institutes for Biochemistry , 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