Driven by specific medical needs and with direct access to the medical infrastructure, the research projects of the EKFZ accelerate the digitalization of medicine.
ideal framework conditions for promising medical research
Interdisciplinary
Innovation Projects
The EKFZ supports medical-technological Interdisciplinary Innovation Projects (IIP). IIPs are an open instrument. It is coordinated by two PIs: an experienced clinician and a hight-tech specialist. The clinician needs a scientific track record in the respective field at Dresden University Hospital/Faculty of Medicine representing the medical need and needed clinical mentorship. The high-tech specialist of the TU Dresden, one of the Fraunhofer institutes IWS, IWU, FEP, IKTS, IPMS, of the HZDR/NCT/UCC Dresden and/or a Leibniz-Institute brings outstanding expertise and technologies into the IIP. In each round, we fund up to three new projects with excellent scientific quality, high originality, and demonstrable clinical relevance. A committee of internal and external experts reviews all applications and makes recommendations to the steering committee, who makes the final decisions.
The increasing opportunities of the digitization for medicine require an increased interdisciplinary consideration of digital health from an economic, business and methodological perspective. In addition to the project funding line for medical-technological IIPs the EKFZ supports projects with a focus on health economics (IIP Economic) and projects with a focus on the humanities and social sciences (IIP Social).