Dr. Barbara Kern successfully applied for the BIH Charité Clinician Scientist Program. With her project "Novel Treatment and Diagnostic Approaches Utilizing the Role of Dendritic Cells in Immune Responsivness" Barbara will be engaged in our Vascular Tissue Allotransplantation Initiative (Project VCA). The Clinician Scientist Program is a modern career pathway within academic medicine that allows physicians to pursue a structured residency with time set aside for clinical and basic research. At the end of the program, participants will have completed their residency and, ideally, their postdoctoral teaching qualification (Habilitation). The program is intended to produce a new generation of scientists with translational training who will help speed up the rate at which scientific findings are translated into application.