A new secondary analysis of the DISCHARGE randomized clinical trial has been published in JAMA Cardiology (May 14, 2025, doi: 10.1001/jamacardio.2025.0992). The study evaluated whether...
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Noninvasive Imaging Heisenberg Research Group
Charité Prof. Marc Deweys research group focuses on radiology, non-invasive cardiovascular imaging as well as general medical imaging – from experimental research and technical developments over clinical studies to outcomes research including cost-effectiveness, meta-analyses and clinical decision support systems.
Our working group receives funding from the German Research Foundation through the Heisenberg Professorship Program. The main scientific vision of Marc Deweys Heisenberg Professorship is to span the divide between technical, molecular, and functional aspects of cardiovascular imaging and evidence-based medicine.
We plan to further advance non-invasive cardiovascular imaging in the future by technical developments based on image segmentation, dose optimization, and quantification. For this, the extended collaboration between radiology, cardiology, physics, biology, mathematics and computer science is intended. If you are interested in working with us on these ambitious projects, please do not hesitate to make contact.
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Discharge Trial
DISCHARGE is a collaborative multinational research project. The consortium of the project is composed of 31 members in 18 European states. Core of the project is a pragmatic randomised controlled trial which includes 26 clinical sites from 16 European countries. The project examines for which patients with suspected coronary artery disease based on stable chest pain, cardiac computed tomography (CT) or cardiac catheterisation is best suited and is based on the single-centre experience with the CAD-Man study at Charité coordinated by Prof Dewey.
DISCHARGE has the capability to influence current standards and guidelines as well as coverage decisions and will raise awareness among patients, health care providers, and decision-makers in Europe about the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of cardiac CT. The project is funded by the European Commission and is coordinated by the Department of Radiology of Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (coordinator: Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey).
The DISCHARGE trial has published its main analyses in NEJM and BMJ. We accept applications from MD and PhD doctoral students for positions in our group, please do not hesitate to make contact with your CV and motivation using dewey@charite.de.
Publication of first DISCHARGE trial results in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)
On March 4, 2022, we published the first results of the DISCHARGE trial in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM).
The primary question of the DISCHARGE trial was to compare CT with invasive coronary angiography for major adverse cardiovascular events in patients with stable chest pain. We thank our team members, the DISCHARGE Trial Group, and every patient at the 26 clinical sites in 16 European countries who helped in this exciting project.
Full trial results are available in The New England Journal of Medicine article here. More about our research projects can be found here.
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PROF. DEWEY FEED
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NEWS
AI-Driven CT Analysis Streamlines Tricuspid Valve and Right Heart Assessment
We are pleased to announce the pre-proof release of our study in Structural Heart: “Comparison of Experienced and Inexperienced Raters Using Automated Deep Learning CT...
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JRS Honorary Membership Awarded to Marc in April 2025 in Yokohama During the JRC 2025 Meeting
We are proud to announce that Professor Marc Dewey was awarded Honorary Membership of the Japanese Radiological Society (JRS) at the JRC 2025 Meeting in...
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Imaging Goes Green — Radiology’s Eight-Pillar Roadmap for Climate-Smart Practice
A freshly Just Accepted special report in Radiology (Hanneman et al., doi 10.1148/radiol.250070, online 22 Apr 2025) calls the global imaging community to collective climate...
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Research Projects
Priority Programme for the investigation of coronary flow.
Radiomics: Next Generation of Biomedical Imaging
DFG-project driven by Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey and Dr. Florian Michallek as well as the Mercator Fellowship Professor Kakuya Kitagawa
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Training – Skills, Knowledge
The scientific activities in the Department of Radiology cover a broad spectrum of highly interesting research areas, from basic research and clinical trials to topics ranging from molecular imaging to interventional radiology.
The broad spectrum of special clinical topics at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin provides an excellent basis for solid and comprehensive training programs at the Department of Radiology.
In addition to the regular clinic-internal meetings of the radiology department (case presentations, morbidity & mortality conferences, presentation of scientific projects and results, safety briefings, strategic discussions, etc.), a 45-minute advanced training course for our physicians in continuing education takes place once a week.
The training has been in existence since 2003 and will be offered additionally from September 2013 in the form of a curriculum relevant to specialists, specifically weighted according to radiological sub-areas, with a total of 99 defined topics. The curriculum can thus be completed by assistant doctors during the specialist training period slightly more than twice before the specialist examination is due.
The training is usually conducted by specialists and senior physicians, taking into account their special expertise (note: many of our clinic’s staff are recognized speakers at national and international congresses).
The advanced training has proven its worth for several years and now takes place at all three camps of the Charité.
Charité Promotionskolleg
The doctoral college of the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin offers students and doctoral students of the Charité an extensive and free offer of student tutorials on basic skills of scientific work and is at the same time a non-binding contact for general questions about doctoral studies.
The tutorials are:
- conceived and implemented by the student staff of the doctoral college
- evaluated by the participants
- supported by a scientific advisory board
The doctoral school was founded in 2003 by Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey with the aim of continuously improving the situation of doctoral students at the Charité as well as the quality of scientific doctorates.
To this day, our goal is to pass on experiences and advice from doctoral students to other doctoral students, and we consider it a challenge to promote the exchange of knowledge and encounters between these doctoral students.
Find out more: https://promotionskolleg.charite.de/en/
Cardiac CT Hands-on Course
There have been dramatic technical advances in computed tomography for imaging of the heart and particularly the coronary arteries. During the course participants will train with 100 cardiac CT cases of invasive angiography correlation. Also, overview lectures on patient preparation and scanning, as well as Image reconstruction and reading will be given.
Participants of our course (maximum enrollment of 20) are becoming familiar with the new options of state-of-the-art cardiac imaging and expand their skills through practical exercises during 5 days on their dedicated workstations.
The course information can be found here: https://herz-kurs.de
Prof. Dr.
Marc Dewey
The founder and head of this radiological research group.
About – Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey
CURRICULUM VITAE:
A curriculum vitae of Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey can be viewed here.
PUBLICATIONS:
Marc Dewey’s Bibliography in National Library of Medicine.
Listing of the most important 10 publications can be found here.
Variety of publications in different journals. (click on picture)
Fair Imaging – social cohesion and medical imaging
To explore explore the association of SES with the quality of medical care and effects on social (dis)integration processes.
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The Crew
Our Team
Team Dewey consists of an interdisciplinary team of scientists (mathematicians, computer scientists, biologists) and clinicians (radiologists, nuclear medicine specialists, cardiologists) working side-by-side at Charité in Berlin on noninvasive cardiovascular imaging research. Using the following graph you can get to known all team members.
Prof. Dr. Marc Dewey
Founder
Position: Group leader and radiologist
Interests: Badminton, hiking
Abilities: Motivating, collaboration
PD Dr. Elke Zimmermann
Deputy
Position: Head of Emergency Radiology
Interests: Diagnostic Radiology, Cardiovascular Diagnostic
Abilities: Kayaking
Dr. Matthias Rief
Vice Deputy
Position: Staff radiologist, Section Chief Computed Tomography
Interests: CT
Abilities: Certified study coordinator
Dr. Melanie Estrella
Office & Project Management
Position: Project Management DISCHARGE
Interests: Clinical Trials
Abilities: Coordination
Coordination & Assistance
Antonia Berz
Tutor & Student Assistant
Position: Medical Student
Hobbies: rowing, skiing, hiking, piano, traveling, radiology
Abilities: french, english, basic science, excel, prism, teaching, social media
Languages: Deutsch, English, Français
Clinical Trials Team
Further information: https://www.dischargetrial.eu/
Grants: EU https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/603266
Dr. Maria Bosserdt
Team Lead
Position: Project Management in DISCHARGE
Interests: Hiking, Travelling
Abilities: Graphical Displays
Elisa Weidner
Physician
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Bass Guitar, Travelling, Sports
Daniel Preuss
Physician
Position: Physician and medical doctor´s candidate
Interests: Research in CT-Perfusion, Photography, Road biking
Mahmoud Mohamed
Statistician
Interests: Music, Dancing, Horse riding
Abilities: Statistical learning
Dr. Julian Pohlan
Physician
Interests: Infectious diseases, Inflammation and Imaging
Abilities: CT-guided interventions
Maria Isabel Opper Hernando
Medical Student
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Singing, dancing, choreography, learning about other cultures, history, and politics
Abilities: German, English, Spanish, Chinese (汉语/中文）
Gloria Münch
Medical Student
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Yoga, Art
Abilities: Running
Interests: Yoga, Art
Abilities: Running
Robin Bockelmann
Physician
Interests: Opera, Fine Arts, Entrepreneurship
Abilities: B.Sc. Molecular Biology
Daniil Soflos
Physician
Position: Student Assistant, MSc Student
Interests: Research
Abilities: Emergency Medicine
Fractal Analysis Lab
Further information: https://www.drg.de/de-DE/5171/erster-dfg-mercator-fellow-radiologie/
Grants: DFG https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/392304398?language=en
Priv.-Doz., Dr. med Florian Michallek
Team Lead
Position: Physician, clinician scientist
Interests: Pathophysiological modeling, perfusion
Abilities: Radiology, programming
Federico Biavati
Physician
Position: MD/PhD Student and Physician
Interests: Scuba diving, cooking, reading, technology
Abilities: Tech-savy, fluent in three languages
Moritz Gross
Medical Student
Position: MD/PhD Student
Interests: Music, Theater, Speciality Coffee
Abilities: Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Image Segmentation
Josch Füllhase
Medical Student
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Jogging, Novel Literature, Perfusion
Abilities: SPSS, Positivity and Decision Making, Shorthand
Ahmed Farghaly
Medical Student
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Abilities: Programming, Lifeguard
Interests: Inner Medicine, Scuba diving, Water Polo, Politics
Felix Bartling
Physician
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Abilities: Latvian and French language, networking
Interests: IBD, traveling, football
Meta Research Team
Further information: https://www.bmj.com/content/365/bmj.l1945
Grants: DFG/BMBF COME-CCT project
Viktoria Wieske
Team Lead, Physician
Position: Radiologist
Interests: Research in Cardiac CT
Abilities: Sports, Travel, Hockey, Golf, Reading
Maria Coenen
Physician
Position: Psychosomatic med. Physician
Interests: Reading, Nature, Animals, and Psychosomatic Medicine
Abilities: Quality Assessment of SRs and MAs
Benjamin Kendziora
Physician
Position: PhD
Interests: Reading, sports, music
Abilities: statistics in meta-analysis, programming with R
Heli Stier
Medical Student
Position: Doctoral Candidate: Conflicts of Interest
Interests: Scuba Diving, Cooking, Tech & Informatics, Traveling
Abilities: Nurse
Oguzhan Mizrak
Medical Student
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Photography, Reading
Abilities: Paramedic, Emergency Medicine Instructor
Ann-Christine Stahl
Physician
Interests: Tennis, Fashion, Feminism
Abilities: To make others smile, Reliability, Helpfulness
Abilities: To make others smile, Reliability, Helpfulness
Sotirios Tsogias
Medical Student
Simon Andrzejewski
Physician
Position: Doctoral candidate
Interests: Motorcycles, Music, CrossFit, Surfing
Sophie Kirchherr
Medical Student
Position: Doctoral candidate
Interests: Science, Nature, Hiking
Deep Learning & Radiomics
Dr. Steffen Lukas
Team Lead Radiomics - Mathematician
Position: Experimental radiology
Interests: Farmer, dancer, captain
Abilities: Dipl. Mathematician
Bernhard Föllmer
PhD Student
Position: PhD Student
Interests: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Futsal, Travel
Abilities: Programming, passionate “Maker”
Farah Abdalfatah
Medical Student
Position: Medical Student
Interests: Videography
Aldo Vásquez Mézquita
Physician
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Abilities: Radiology, Research, Data Science
Interests: Mixology, travelling, folklore
Abilities: Radiology, Research, Data Science
Interests: Mixology, travelling, folklore
Kenrick Schulze
PhD Student
Interests: Machine Learning, Sports, Hiking
Abilities: Programming, Baking
Doctoral Training: Promotionskolleg
PD Dr. Elke Zimmermann
Team Lead
Position: Head of Emergency Radiology
Interests: Diagnostic Radiology, Cardiovascular Diagnostic
Abilities: Kayaking
Alina Muskala
Tutor
Interests: Sports
Abilities: MiS for Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution.
Klara Reisch
MD/PhD Student, Tutor
Interests: Traveling, Teaching, Neuroscience, Psychology
Zhiyang Wu
Tutor
Position: Doctoral Candidate
Interests: Swimming, Snowboarding
Abilities: Mass spectrometry, Proteomics, nucleic acids (cloning)
Antonia Berz
Tutor
Position: Medical Student
Hobbies: rowing, skiing, hiking, piano, traveling, radiology
Abilities: french, english, basic science, excel, prism, teaching, social media
Moritz Gross
Tutor
Position: MD/PhD Student
Interests: Music, Theater, Speciality Coffee
Abilities: Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Image Segmentation
Katharina May
Tutor
Position: Medical Student
Interests: Jazz Dance, Yoga, Cooking
Abilities: Prevention, nutrition, integrative medicine?
Abilities: Prevention, nutrition, integrative medicine?
Ahmet Kücükkaya
Tutor
Position: Medical Student
Abilities: Image Analysis, Statistical Learning
Interests: Sports, Cultural events
Simon Andrzejewski
Tutor
Position: Doctoral candidate
Interests: Motorcycles, Music, CrossFit, Surfing
Outreach
In Touch with everybody
Several sources of information are available about what we do to ensure public interest, outreach to society, and impact of our research efforts. Some selected links to media reports can be found below.
Supporting Medical Education: DRG Video Series Featuring Ann-Christine Stahl
We are pleased to share that Ann-Christine Stahl contributed to the educational video series “Fit fürs Radiologie-PJ”, initiated by the German Radiological Society (DRG). The...
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Successful 3rd QCI meeting at Charité
Cutting-edge cardiac imaging and standardization consensus at the 3rd Quantitative Cardiovascular Imaging (QCI) Meeting on September 6th, 2024 in Berlin. It was amazing to welcome...
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Successful GUIDE-IT Kick-off!
On April 28th, 2023 we kicked off the GUIDE-IT Project with numerous interesting talks giving us a lot to think about. We were glad to...
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Out of Campus Research
The working group members are not only curious explorers of medical imaging. Other kind of exploration we do looks like this…
Activity day: dragon boat ride
Whose idea was that anyway? Because it was great! Wonderful weather, the gentle lapping of the water, good-humored colleagues and even a slave driver on...
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Perspektiven-meeting 2023
The moment for our annual perspectives meeting has arrived, accompanied by delightful cake and obligatory coffee! During our gathering, each participant had the opportunity to...
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ECR 2023 with Team Dewey!
The theme of this year‘s European Congress of Radiology was „The Cycle of Life“ pointing out the meaning of radiology to healthcare throughout the whole...
LEARN MOREOur amazing surroundings & COLLEAGUES
We are very thankful to be able to work in such an amazing surrounding, with such amazing and inspiring people! Heres to everything that is also happening around of us:
Patients
Research
Our German speaking patients who would like to get more information about what we do and how to participate in our cardiovascular imaging research, please feel free to contact us.
Outreach
Our German speaking patients who would like to get more information about what we do and how to participate in our cardiovascular imaging research, please feel free to contact us.
2020
The Charité Radiology programme has been granted the Certificate of excellence.
The institution provides an advanced training program of subspecialisation and research in accordance with the ETC (ESR European Training Curriculum) with all the modalities of imaging available. We are incredibly proud to have contributed to this award.
CONTACT
Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Research Group
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Radiology Department
Luisenstr. 13
10117 Berlin
Germany
Email: assistenz.dewey(at)charite.de
Tel.: +49 30 450 527353
Fax: +49 30 450 7527920