This week, the Charité celebrates the opening of the “Max Rubner Center for Cardiovascular Metabolic Renal Research” with an international symposium. At the center’s location in Hessische Straße 3-4, Rubner himself had worked as chair of hygiene, succeeding Robert Koch in the position. With its focus on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, the new center indeed ties in with Rubner’s research areas. The founding donor of Stiftung Charité, Johanna Quandt (1926–2015), was Max Rubner’s granddaughter.
Ahead of the event, Stiftung Charité conducted an interview with the director of the new MRC, Professor Ulrich Kintscher, tracing connections between Rubner as well as the history of medicine more widely to the cutting-edge research undertaken in the building today.
