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The Else Kröner graduate study program “Rethinking Health” is going to close the crucial gap between studying for a medical degree and academic careers, and introduces medical students to a substantial scientific activity at an early stage. Accordingly, the graduate study program provides a hook-up at the location to the BIH Charité Clinician Scientist Program, which has been readily established for years at Charité and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH).

Digital transformation makes it necessary to address issues which arise due to digitalization in diagnostics and therapy. This applies to to medical training and research as well. With DigiStrucMed, an innovative structure involving collaboration between medicine and computer science is going to come about on the part of MHH and its cooperation partners from the informatics departments at the Technical University Braunschweig and Leibniz University Hannover.

Besides infectious pathogens, a broad spectrum of non-infectious causes for inflammatory reactions exists as well. The graduate study program “FöFoLe-Inflammation” makes this the starting point and is going to strengthen the outstanding research on inflammation on the LMU campus in the case of infectious and non-infectious diseases. The opportunity to take part in “FöFoLe-Inflammation” is provided to project managers in many specialized areas and to students with very different clinical interests.

The graduate study program entitled “ONCOnnect” focuses on new therapies and diagnostic instruments in the field of personalized oncology. This occurs in four subject areas: Alongside the development of robot-supported surgical assistance systems and image-guided, high-precision irradiation techniques, projects are equally planned in the area of medicinally personalized cell therapy products and the utilization of computer-based simulations. ONCOnnect shall be closely affiliated with the Dresden School of Clinical Science.

Physicians work hand in hand with various disciplines from the basic sciences on new developments such as mRNA-based vaccines. The graduate study program in Mainz therefore wants to establish a sustainable concept for the training of Medical Scientists, their research, and the research they conduct on RNA-based immunotherapies. Medical Scientists will work closely together with Clinician Scientists and find an optimal research environment for their projects in structures such as the Research Center for Immunotherapy or the Helmholtz Institute for Translational Oncology.

The Else Kröner School for Medical Scientists entitled “nextGENERATION” is targeted toward setting off on new paths in the training of young postdoctoral fellows in the field of regenerative medicine in order to close the gap between fundamental research and clinical practice. The postdoctoral fellows’ research projects within the program place an emphasis on the use of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSC) and gene therapy approaches with the aim to develop therapies to repair tissue and organs.

Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to improve medical research and practice, but it is often enormously difficult to translate theoretical advances in AI research into medical practice. The goal of the Else Kröner Medical Scientist Kolleg ClinBrAIn is to help close this gap. It aims to train 'Medical Machine Learning-Scientists' who, together with clinical experts, will develop and apply tailored AI methods for clinical problems. ClinbrAIn, which is led by Prof. Jakob Macke together with PD Dr. Kathrin Brockmann, and Prof.

Viele schwerwiegende Erkrankungen, darunter Infektionen, Krebs und neurologische Störungen, sind durch Entzündungsreaktionen charakterisiert. Diese tragen maßgeblich zum Schweregrad der Krankheit bei, jedoch sind derzeit für viele Entzündungsreaktionen keine effektiven Therapien bekannt und es bleibt nur eine symptomatische Behandlung. Die Erforschung dieser Entzündungsprozesse und ihrer zugrundeliegenden komplexen Zusammenhänge setzt eine spezifische Kombination von wissenschaftlichen Kenntnissen, Expertisen und modernsten Untersuchungsmethoden voraus.

Progress in data science, life science and technical disciplines places great demands on physicians and researchers, who must rapidly implement the latest finding from these disciplines into benefits for patients. Especially in oncology, interdisciplinary collaboration between scientist and clinical physicians is urgently needed.

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