Research Fields & Collaborative Projects
- Family SCOUT - cross-sector and cross-phase support for families with cancer parents, supported by the GB-A Innovation Fund
The following externally funded collaborative projects are currently being carried out at the Medical Faculty:
Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG):
- SFB 1382 The gut-liver axis - functional relationships and therapeutic strategies
- TRR 57 Organ Fibrosis: From the Mechanisms of Damage to Influencing the Disease
- TRR 219 Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Complications in Chronic Kidney Diseases
- SPP On the way to the implantable lung(s), since 2017, more information on the DFG's new Priority Programmes website.
- FOR 2591 Severity Assessment in Animal Based Research (since 2017)
Funded by the European Union (EU):
- Adapt – Airway Disease Analysis and Prevention
- ANTI-SUPERBUGS PCP –ANTI-SUPERBUG Precommercial procurement
- Cardiateam – CARdiomyopathy in type 2 DIAbetes mellitus
- CaReSyAn – Combatting the CardioRenal Syndrome: towards an integrative Analysis to reduce cardiovascular burden in chronic kidney disease
- Cemacube – Common European Master´s Curriculum in Biomedical Engineering
- CLAIRE – Clinical Artificial Intelligence Improving Healthcare
- DIH Hero – Digital Innovation Hubs in Healthcare Robotics
- EJP-RD – European Joint Programme on Rare Diseases
- ElectroPros – Training research pioneers by utilizing and validating the promise of electroporation for minimal invasive oncological treatments.
- Homecare@COPD – RAS-Q: Bringing care home for COPD patients
- Human Brain Project – Human Brain Project SGA1
- HYPMED – Digital Hybrid Breast PET/MRI for Enhanced Diagnosis of Breast Cancer
- INTRICARE – International Network for Training on Risks of vascular Intimal Calcification And roads to Regression of cardiovascular diseasE
- LITMUS – Liver Investigation: Testing Marker Utility in Steatohepatitis
- NIGHTINGALE – Connecting Patients and Carers using wearable sensor technology
- Smart4Health – Citizen-centred EU-EHR exchange for personalised health
- SyMBioSys – Systematic Models for Biological Systems Engineering Training Network
- THALEA II – Telemonitoring and Telemedicine for Hospitals Assisted by ICT for Life saving co-morbid patients in Europe as part of a patient personalised care program of the EU
- TransQST – Translational quantitative systems toxicology to improve the understanding of the safety of medicines
Funded by the Federal Government and the Federal State (selection):
- BMBF-Research Network LiSym – System Medicine of the Liver
- TELnet@NRW - Telemedical, intersectoral network as new digital structure for measurable improvement of health care close to home, supported by the Innovation Fund of the G-BA
- OncoCare - Initiative for Innovative Patient-Centered Oncological Care in the Euregio, funded by the Interreg V Programme
- BMBF Medical Informatics Initiative-SMITH - Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare
- Family SCOUT - cross-sector and cross-phase support for families with cancer parents, supported by the GB-A Innovation Fund