Institute for Pharmacology (DAW)

The Institute for Pharmacology 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 emerged on October 1, 1961 from the pharmacology department of the Institute for Medicine and Biology founded in Buch in 1947 . Friedrich Jung , who had already been head of the department at the Institute for Medicine and Biology , acted as director of the Institute for Pharmacology . Research at the Institute of Pharmacology focused on investigations on erythrocytes and hemoglobins , enzymological work, in particular on monooxygenases, and the active ingredient chemistry of peptides .

Effective January 1, 1972, the Institute and the Academy Institutes for Biochemistry , Biophysics and Cell Physiology became the Central Institute for Molecular Biology (ZIM), which was also headed by Friedrich Jung. 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. Second edition. Springer-Verlag, Berlin and Heidelberg 2002, ISBN 978-3-540-42842-8 , pp. 68-93