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The challenges of modern interdisciplinary medical research

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The increasing complexity of medical science poses significant challenges to medical education, leading to a growing gap between medical researchers and treating practitioners.

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Figure 1: The graduate program of the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies (BSRT) consists of a three-year program and binds together individual tracks for medical doctors, biologists, biochemists, physicists, engineers and chemists in a joint program on regenerative medicine.

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  1. Philipp von Roth is at the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies and Julius Wolff Institute and Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany,

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  2. Benedict J. Canny is in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Victoria, Australia,

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  3. Hans-Dieter Volk is at the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies and Institute of Medical Immunology, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany,

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  4. Department of Engineering Science, J. Alison Noble is at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and RCUK Centre for Doctoral Training in Healthcare Innovation, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK,

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  5. Charles G. Prober is at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA,

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  6. Carsten Perka and Georg N. Duda are at the Berlin-Brandenburg School for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies and Julius Wolff Institute and Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité–Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany.,

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von Roth, P., Canny, B., Volk, HD. et al. The challenges of modern interdisciplinary medical research. Nat Biotechnol 29, 1145–1148 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2062

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