Digital Health News

Congratulations Christian!!! Researchers today often do not look through the microscope themselves: With the vast number of cells, tissue sections and tumor samples, there is simply too much for the human eye to spot and record.

Charité CIO Martin Peuker is driving digitization in the healthcare sector with the Health Data Platform. The jury awards him 1st prize in the Public Sector category for his outstandig achievment.

We are pleased to present our recent achievements in building the Human Cell Atlas of the Pancreas on single-cell resolution.

Professor Dominik Niopek, Department of Biology at the TU, has been awarded the "Life Sciences Bridge - Aventis Foundation Postdoctoral Award" research prize sponsored by the Aventis Foundation. The prize is endowed with 100,000 euros.

We are pleased to announce our novel computational model for reducing off-target effects in CRISPR-Cas9 approaches: The manuscript Coupling Cas9 to artificial inhibitory domains enhances CRISPR-Cas9 target specificity by Aschenbrenner et al. got recently accepted and will be published in Scientific Advances .

On January 30th 2020, Roland Eils was invited as key speaker to an evening event with the focus on the digitalization and usage of artificial intelligence in health and disease, organized by the Bundespresseamt and the Einstein Foundation. As an expert for digital medicine, Roland Eils critically discussed the lack of digitalization in the medical sector specifically in Germany and emphasized the high potential of data-driven diagnostics in precision medicine. As an example, he presents recent efforts in translational research in the field of cancer diagnostics, closing his talk with the words „Data can save lives!“.

Our EU Horizon 2020 project ESPACE started on January 1st 2020. The kick-off meeting end of January 2020 took part in Berlin and hosted most of the ESPACE partners for fruitful discussions and a successful start of the project. We are very much looking forward to exciting two years in which we are working towards a Human Cell Atlas of the Pancreas.

The Digital Health Center organises this year's INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEMS BIOLOGY OF HUMAN DISEASE - SBHD 2021 in Berlin, July 05th - 07th. Don't miss this opportunity to participate in a scientifically outstanding and highly entertaining program. We are looking forward to welcoming you in Berlin!

The BIH Center for Digital Health is part of the BMBF Gaia-X program that aims to create an open digital infrastructure for save and trustful data sharing, data storage and data handling. The Center for Digital Health is supporting Gaia-X with the available infrastructures of the de.NBI cloud. See also new project HEALTH-X dataLOFT (BMWi funded).