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The Center for AI-based Real-time Medical Diagnostics and Therapy (CARE-MED) will be established by 2028 – with a focus on chronic inflammatory, degenerative and oncological diseases. The idea of the multimodal sensory laboratory in CARE-MED is to use innovative methods and technologies as well...

On the 20th of April 2023,  16 EmpkinS young researchers spent an afternoon on the "Via Ferrata Norissteig" fixed-rope route in Hirschbach. Led by the more experienced climbers, the young researchers helped each other to complete the adventurous team-building activity in small groups. Participants t...

We congratulate Prof. Dr. Matthias Braun for receiving the prestigious ERC Starting Grant! With 1,5 Million Euros allocated to 5 research-years Prof. Dr. Braun and his team will research ethical questions in the realm of "digital twins", which are simulations of certain body-functions or organs w...

Prof. Dr. Schett (D01) has been awarded one of the highest honors: the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the most important German research funding prize! Prof. Dr. Georg Schett is one of the leading international scientists in the field of inflammation and immune medicine with groundbreaking find...

We cordially congratulate Alexander German (sub-project B04) for being named the FAU Innovator 2022! In the category of student-innovators, Alexander satisfied the jury with his principle of “Voxelomics”. Voxel are spatial imaging, which help in visualizing physical tissue properties in radiologi...

We congratulate our P.I. Prof. Dr. Peter Dabrock (sub-project E) for becoming one of the new presidential members of acatech (German National Academy of Science and Engineering). At its 20th anniversary, acatech, an independent science- and fact-based policy and society consultancy, appointed its...

On January 19th, Professor Matthias Braun (P.I. of sub-project E) from the University of Bonn presented "Ethical and Societal Chances and Challenges of AI-driven Health Simulations". In his talk, he challenged the audience to think critically about the boundaries between self and digital representat...

On Dec 15, Robert Richer (sub-project D03) was invited by the Institute of Humanities at Unisinos (IHU), Brazil, to give a remote guest lecture as part of their “Digital Health Study Series”. Robert talked about “Machine Learning and Biomedical Signal Analysis Applications in Health Psychology”. Amo...

Tabea Ott and Markus Gambietz presented the Science Slam "Future Diagnoses" organized by EmpkinS on February 10, 2023. In the video below they answer some questions about it.   Click here for the flyer: https://www.empkins.de/activities/upcomingevents/public-events/science-slam/  

We are proud to announce that our P.I. of subproject C02, Dr.Ing. Jörg Miehling, becomes funding member of the Emerging Talents Initiative. He will be supported by the ETI in the twelve-month-period January 2023 - January 2024.   For more information about the ETI please visit: https://ww...