in 1901) Ernst Boris Chain – biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945) Paul Ehrlich – immunologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1908) Hermann Emil Fischer – chemist (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1902) Werner Forssmann – physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956) Robert Koch – physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1905) Albrecht Kossel (1853-1927) – physician (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1910) Sir Hans Adolf Krebs (1900-1981) – physician and biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953) Fritz Albert Lipmann (1899-1986) – biochemist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1953) Hans Spemann (1869-1941) – embryologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1935) Otto Heinrich Warburg (1883-1970) – physiologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1931) Medical school In 2003 the Berlin city and state House of Representatives passed an interim law unifying the medical faculties of both Humboldt University and Freie Universität Berlin under the roof of the Charité. Since 2010–11 all new medical students have been enrolled on the New Revised Medical Curriculum Programme with a length of 6 years. Referred to the points needed in the German Abitur to get directly accepted, the Charité is together with Heidelberg University Medical School Germany's most competitive medical school (2020). 3,17% of all Charité Medical School students are supported by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, the highest percentage of all public German universities. The Erasmus Exchange Programme offered to Charité Medical School students includes 72 universities and is the largest in Europe. Charité students can spend up to a year at a foreign medical school with exchange partners such as the Karolinska Institute, University of Copenhagen, Sorbonne University, Jagiellonian University, Università di Roma La Sapienza, University of Amsterdam, and the University of Zürich. Students are also encouraged to participate in research projects, complete a dissertation, or join Charité affiliated social projects. In 2021, the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) became the translational research unit of Charité, marking a change in the German university system by making the Charité the first university clinic which receive direct and annual financial support by the federal state of Germany. Together with private charity donors like the Johanna Quandt's private excellence initiative or the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as financing by the State of Berlin, the new direct federal investments will become the third financial