Medicine and Healthcare at Fraunhofer ITWM

Health and Life Sciences: Socially Relevant, Wide-Ranging, Individual

Improving health care, increasing chances of recovery, supporting diagnoses – these are the goals that the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft wants to achieve in the lead market  »Health Economy«. We contribute mathematics to this – especially with a focus on smart tools for decision-making and the optimal use of digitization. This page is dedicated to this major topic, collecting and highlighting outstanding projects and presenting the extensive work being done at Fraunhofer ITWM. Further projects on medicine and health can be found at the departments and divisions themselves.

Example Applications and Projects

 

Life Sciences

Our department »Optimization in the Life Sciences« develops and provides innovative and individually designed methods as well as software solutions and services in various areas of the life sciences.

 

Diagnostic Tool for Rare Diseases

Together with pharmaceutical company Chiesi, our researchers are developing a tool to help doctors identify rare diseases faster.

 

AI Accelerates Nanomedicine

In the project »Smart-Form«, we develop an AI platform for the targeted optimization and prediction of formulation processes for nanotherapeutics.

 

News / 19.11.2024

Funding for the Project »DIGICHEM«

Fraunhofer IMM and Fraunhofer ITWM receive 599,511 euros for their project »DIGICHEM«. 

 

Interview / 29.08.2024

»Optimization in the Life Sciences« – Socially relevant, wide-ranging, individual

 

»KIDAGO« – Digital health data for sub-Saharan Africa

A hybrid system for digitizing handwritten medical documents using AI, image processing and OCR.

 

 

 

Energy-Efficient Hardware for Artificial Intelligence

The project »HALF« uses AI to help detect atrial fibrillation at an early stage.

 

With AI Against Billing Fraud

In the »PflegeForensik« project, we are developing AI software to combat billing fraud.

 

Financial Mathematics

Retirement Plans

We developed the software ALMSim-Pathgenerator to support providers of pension products in questions of product development and placement and effective cost calculation.

 

Damage Extrapolation in the Healthcare Sector

Our goal in this research area is the estimation of guaranteed damage in billing fraud in the health care sector.

 

MaTBiZ: Simulating Biological Cell Separation

In the »MaTBiZ« project, we simulate biological cell separation processes in order to optimize filter media manufactured using additive processes.

 

Diagnostic System

Diagnostic System for the Brain Maturation Process in Premature Infants

 

Development of New Medication

Mathematical learning methods support the development of new pharmaceutical drugs.

 

Data Analysis in Life Sciences and Biotechnology

Collection, processing and interpretation of complex data

 

Next Generation Sequencing

Evaluation of software for the primary analysis of NGS Data

 

Fraunhofer ITWM versus Corona

Our experts are contributing to the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by conducting various research projects and thus supporting the economy and society in overcoming the corona crisis with mathematics. On our landing page »Fraunhofer ITWM versus Corona« we collect all the news from the institute on the topic: