Project Details
Projekt
GSC 235: Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences
Subject Area
Systems Engineering
Neurosciences
Neurosciences
Term
from 2007 to 2014
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 39133334
The University of Lübeck is a young campus university consisting of a medical faculty and a faculty of technology and natural sciences. These faculties cover three research areas: medicine, informatics and life sciences and are located on one campus. Both faculties have been ranked among the top eight faculties in all of Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the official ranking organised by CHE (centre for university development) in 2006. Although the university is young, it has acquired a very substantial number of interdisciplinary projects on a nation-wide scale.
The concept of the graduate school is the following: The graduate school will consist of two programmes. The first programme involves interdisciplinary research between medicine and informatics. The second programme will focus on computational methods in the life sciences. This structure is a direct map of the overall structure of the university. The university has gathered substantial experience in interdisciplinary undergraduate education. Among other initiatives, new undergraduate programmes "Computational Life Sciences", "Molecular Life Sciences" and "Biomedical Engineering" have been created in recent years. All three programmes have been highly successful in providing equal opportunity environments, with a percentage of female students ranging consistently over 45 percent in the Computational Life Sciences programme, and 60 percent in the Molecular Life Sciences programme. More than 20 percent of the principal investigators participating in the school are female. Biomedical engineering is taught entirely in English with a percentage of students from foreign countries ranging consistently over 65 percent, and student exchange programmes with 26 international universities are in place.
The goal of the graduate school is to extend these well-established interdisciplinary structures to graduate education. To this end, current academic structures must be adapted, thereby providing the potential for far-reaching structural innovation. Each of the two main programmes of the new graduate school will define research areas called branches. The first branch addresses computational methods in neurotechnology, navigation and robotics, the second computational methods in structural biology and cell biology.
The graduate school will organise a summer school for undergraduates, called "Summer School of Applied Computing" each year at partner universities throughout the Baltic region. The host university has created three new professorships at the W1-level specifically for the graduate school. The new professorships are: "Structure-based Drug Design", "Medical Robotics" and "Machine Learning in Medicine and Life Sciences". The host university has provided full long-term funding for all three new professorships.
The concept of the graduate school is the following: The graduate school will consist of two programmes. The first programme involves interdisciplinary research between medicine and informatics. The second programme will focus on computational methods in the life sciences. This structure is a direct map of the overall structure of the university. The university has gathered substantial experience in interdisciplinary undergraduate education. Among other initiatives, new undergraduate programmes "Computational Life Sciences", "Molecular Life Sciences" and "Biomedical Engineering" have been created in recent years. All three programmes have been highly successful in providing equal opportunity environments, with a percentage of female students ranging consistently over 45 percent in the Computational Life Sciences programme, and 60 percent in the Molecular Life Sciences programme. More than 20 percent of the principal investigators participating in the school are female. Biomedical engineering is taught entirely in English with a percentage of students from foreign countries ranging consistently over 65 percent, and student exchange programmes with 26 international universities are in place.
The goal of the graduate school is to extend these well-established interdisciplinary structures to graduate education. To this end, current academic structures must be adapted, thereby providing the potential for far-reaching structural innovation. Each of the two main programmes of the new graduate school will define research areas called branches. The first branch addresses computational methods in neurotechnology, navigation and robotics, the second computational methods in structural biology and cell biology.
The graduate school will organise a summer school for undergraduates, called "Summer School of Applied Computing" each year at partner universities throughout the Baltic region. The host university has created three new professorships at the W1-level specifically for the graduate school. The new professorships are: "Structure-based Drug Design", "Medical Robotics" and "Machine Learning in Medicine and Life Sciences". The host university has provided full long-term funding for all three new professorships.
DFG Programme
Graduate Schools
Applicant Institution
Universität zu Lübeck
Spokesperson
Professor Dr.-Ing. Achim Schweikard
Participating Researchers
Professorin Dr. Silke Anders; Professor Dr. Jörg Barkhausen; Professor Dr. Thorsten Buzug; Professorin Dr. Jeanette Erdmann (†); Professor Dr. Bernd Fischer (†); Professor Dr. Stefan Fischer; Professor Dr. Jens K. Habermann; Professor Dr. Enno Hartmann; Professor Dr. Rolf Hilgenfeld; Professor Dr. Ulrich G. Hofmann; Professorin Dr. Christine Klein; Professor Dr. Charli Kruse; Professorin Dr. Lisa Marshall; Professor Dr. Thomas Martinetz; Professor Dr.-Ing. Alfred Mertins; Professor Dr. Thomas F. Münte; Professorin Dr. Kerstin Oltmanns; Professorin Susanne Schneider, Ph.D.; Professor Dr. Heribert Schunkert; Professor Dr. Georg Sczakiel; Professor Dr. Volker Martin Tronnier; Professor Dr. Alfred Vogel; Professor Dr. Jürgen Westermann; Professor Dr. Detlef Zillikens (†)
