Projects

Projects

Personalized Medicine for Oncology (PM4Onco)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Project Name: Personalized Medicine for Oncology Use (PM4Onco)
Summary: PM4Onco will establish a national, interoperable infrastructure for molecular tumor boards that streamlines the harmonization of the existing approaches and continues the efforts from the establishment phase of the MII.
Working Period: 2023-2026
Position: Prime Investigator

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Open Medical Inference (OMI) – Method Platform

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Project Name: Open Medical Inference (OMI) - Method Platform
Summary: OMI will specify open protocols and data formats for the semantically interoperable peer-to-peer exchange of multimodal healthcare data and remote AI inference and produce infrastructure components that implement the OMI protocol.
Working Period: 2023-2026
Position: Prime Investigator

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Privacy-Preserving Analytics in Medicine (PrivateAIM)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Project Name: Privacy-Preserving Analytics in Medicine (PrivateAIM)
Summary: The project focuses on new methodological developments in federated learning and data privacy. To implement these new approaches, a unified platform will be developed.
Working Period: 2023-2026
Position: Prime Investigator

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Smart Health Innovation & Future Technologies Hub (Shift-HUB)

EU /

Project Type: European Union Project (HORIZON-HLTH-2022-IND-13)
Project Name: Smart Health Innovation & Future Technologies Hub (Shift-HUB)
Summary: SHIFT-HUB aims to establish a pan-European Smart Health Innovation Hub bringing together a rich network of multidisciplinary stakeholders across the dimensions of the quadruple helix, with the mission to facilitate the development, ensure the promotion and foster the uptake of Smart Health technologies and services.
Working Period: 2023-2025
Position: Prime Investigator

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Collaborative Data Exchange and Usage (CODEX+)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Project Name: Collaborative Data Exchange and Usage (CODEX+)
Summary: CODEX+ adds technical and organizational aspects to the CODEX platform from the first funding phase, which has now been transferred to the NUM Routine Data Platform infrastructure, so that the successful solutions from the various NUM projects can be operated and used in a common infrastructure at the university hospitals.
Working Period: 2022
Position: Prime Investigator

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FAIR Data Spaces

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Project Name: FAIR Data Spaces
Summary: In dem Projekt werden die föderierte, sichere Dateninfrastruktur Gaia-X und NFDI zu einem gemeinsamen, cloud-basierten Datenraum für Industrie und Forschung unter Einhaltung der FAIR-Prinzipien verbunden.
Working Period: 2021-2024
Position: Principal Investigator. University of Cologne

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NFDI for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (NFDI4DS)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Project Name: Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur (NFDI) for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
Summary: NFDI4DS verfolgt die Entwicklung, Einrichtung und Aufrechterhaltung einer nationalen Forschungsdateninfrastruktur für die Communitys in Data Science und der Künstlichen Intelligenz in Deutschland.
Working Period: 2022-2026
Position: Principal Investigator. University of Cologne

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Diagnosis Support for the Rare Disease Family Leukodystrophy(LEUKO Expert)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Bundesverwaltungsamt (BVA)
Project Name: KI-basierte Diagnoseunterstützung bei Seltenen Erkrankungen am Beispiel der Seltenen Erkrankung Leukodystrophie
Summary: The main aim of the project is to develop machine learning models for the family of leukodystrophies that can be used in a diagnostic support system. Models will be built using clinical, genetic and image data (MRI) from three centers for rare diseases.
Working Period: 2020-2023
Position: Principal Investigator. RWTH Aachen

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NFDI for Personal Health Data (NFDI4Health)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
Project Name: Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur für personenbezogene Gesundheitsdaten (NFDI4Health)
Summary: The project aim to implement a federated health data infrastructure to foster data sharing and cooperation between clinical research, epidemiological and public health communities in Germany.
Working Period: 2022-2025
Position: Principal Investigator. University of Cologne

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Collaboration On Rare Diseases (CORD_MI)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Project Name: Collaboration On Rare Diseases (CORD_MI)
Summary: The "Collaboration on Rare Diseases" use case is a joint project comprising the four consortia of the Medical Informatics Initiative, in which numerous German university hospitals and partner institutions are involved. The aim is to improve care and research in the field of rare diseases.
Working Period: 2020-2022
Position: Principal Investigator. RWTH Aachen

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Polypharmazie, Arzneimittelwechselwirkungen, Risiken (POLAR_MI)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Project Name: Polypharmazie, Arzneimittelwechselwirkungen, Risiken (POLAR_MI)
Summary: The "POLypharmazie, Arzneimittelwechselwirkungen, Risiken" use case encompasses all four consortia of the Medical Informatics Initiative and aims to contribute to the detection of health risks in patients with polymedication.
Working Period: 2020-2022
Position: Principal Investigator. RWTH Aachen

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FAIRplus Project

EU /

Project Type: H2020 (EU.3.1.7. - Innovative Medicines Initiative 2 (IMI2))
Project Name: FAIRplus
Summary: The FAIRplus project aims to develop tools and guidelines for making life science data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable). The project has 22 partners from academia and industry, and runs from January 2019 to June 2022.
Working Period: 2019-2022
Position: Researcher. Fraunhofer FIT.

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Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare (SMITH)

BMBF/DFG/BVA /

Project Type: Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF)
Project Name: SMITH Smart Medical Information Technology for Healthcare
Summary: The aim within the scope of SMITH is the development of an innovative structure for cross-institutional connectivity and exchange of healthcare and research data between sites and beyond the consortium.
Working Period: 2017-2022
Position: Researcher. RWTH Aachen

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The PICASO Project

EU /

Project Type: H2020 (EU.3.1.6. - Health care provision and integrated care)
Project Name: A Personalised Integrated Care Approach for Service Organisations and Care Models for Patients with Multi-Morbidity and Chronic Conditions (PICASO)
Summary: The PICASO project is developing an ICT platform to support coordination of care plans for people diagnosedwith co-occurring chronic diseases.
Working Period: 2017-2018
Position: Researcher. Fraunhofer FIT

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POLYCARE Project

EU /

Project Type: H2020 (EU.3.1.6. - Health care provision and integrated care)
Project Name: POLY-stakeholders for integrated CARE for chronic patients in acute phases (POLYCARE)
Summary: POLYCARE project aims to develop and test an integrated care model, patient-centred, supported by the use of advanced ICT systems and services that allows the monitoring and care of older chronic patients in acute phases at home.
Working Period: 2017-2018
Position: Researcher. Fraunhofer FIT

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MARIO Project

EU /

Project Type: H2020 (EU.3.1. - SOCIETAL CHALLENGES - Health, demographic change and well-being)
Project Name: Managing active and healthy aging with use of caring service robots (MARIO)
Summary: MARIO addresses the difficult challenges of loneliness, isolation and dementia in older persons through innovative and multi-faceted inventions delivered by service robots.
Working Period: 2015-2016
Position: Member of the coordination team, acquired funding as co-producer. Insight, NUI Galway.

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Irish Record Linkage 1864-1913

Others /

Project Type: Irish Research Council (IRC)
Project Name: Irish Record Linkage 1864-1913
Summary: The project aims to provide a comprehensive map of infant and maternal mortality for Dublin from 1864-1913 by linking records of Birth, Marriage and Death, provided by the General Register Office.
Working Period: 2014-2015
Position: Ontology Engineer. Insight, NUI, Galway.

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SIFEM Project

EU /

Project Type: FP7 (ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies)
Project Name: Semantic Infostructure interlinking an open source Finite Element tool and libraries with a model repository for the multi-scale Modelling and 3d visualization of the inner-ear (SIFEM)
Summary: The aim of project is to develop a semantic infostructure and supportive tools with the clinical knowledge, the available clinical and experimental data and a model repository in order to obtain multi-scale models of the inner-ear.
Working Period: 2014-2015
Position: Researcher. Insight, NUI, Galway

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Linked2Safety

EU /

Project Type: FP7 (ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies)
Project Name: A Next-Generation, Secure Linked Data Medical Information Space For Semantically-Interconnecting Electronic Health Records and Clinical Trials Systems Advancing Patients Safety In Clinical Research (Linked2Safety)
Summary: The vision of Linked2Safety project is to advance clinical practice and accelerate medical research with an innovative semantic interoperability framework.
Working Period: 2011-2014
Position: Researcher. DERI, NUI Galway.

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USST, Phase I

Others /

Project Type: EU-State Institute of Statistics (SIS) of the Republic of Turkey
Project Name: Upgrading the Statistical System of Turkey Programme (USST) Phase I, Technical Assistance to Improve the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) system in the State Institute of Statistics (SIS) of the Republic of Turkey
Summary: -
Working Period: 2005-2006
Position: Expert (data warehousing and data mining) (METEKSAN System)

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URBAS: National Radiology and PACS Development Project

Core Resources Management System (CRMS)

Others /

Project Type: The World Bank, Ministry of Health (Türkiye)
Project Name: Core Resources Management System (CRMS)
Summary: CRMS is an online registration system which indicates the staff status of the Ministry of Health across the country. CRMS project was begun to be formed within the framework of the World Bank's Second Health Project.
Working Period: 1998-2000
Position: Software Quality Manager (LIKOM Software)

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