Institute for Applied Isotope Research

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The Institute for Applied Isotope Research 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 from the Applied Isotope Research division of the Institute for Medicine and Biology , founded in Buch in 1947 , and was created on October 1, 1961 together with the Academy Institutes for Biochemistry , Biophysics , Experimental Cancer Research , Pharmacology and also located in Berlin-Buch for cell physiology . The founding director of the institute was Günther Vormum , who had previously headed the relevant department at the Institute for Medicine and Biology from 1957, succeeding Hans-Joachim Born . The main focus of the institute's activities was the production of radioactive isotopes for medical and biochemical applications, the development of closed radiation sources and research into the technical and medical use of radioisotopes.

At the beginning of 1970 the Institute for Applied Isotope Research became a branch of the newly founded Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research , which was located in Leipzig as the successor to the Institute for Applied Radioactivity . Günther Vormum remained the head of the branch office until the central institute was dissolved and his retirement in 1991.

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