Research at School VI - School of Medicine and Health Sciences is supported by an interlinking of natural science and clinical departments. The departments' divisions contribute to the university's guiding theme of people and technology with a research focus on neurosensory and hearing research as well as healthcare research. In addition to the research focus areas, the School pursues the three potential areas of Rare Diseases, Oncology and Mobile Health.

Structurally, research is supported by two research centres and coordinated third-party funding programmes.

Research centres

Research Centre Neurosensory Science

How does our brain create an inner image of the world around us based on the signals from our sensory organs? Doctors, neurobiologists, psychophysicists, psychologists, acousticians, engineers, biochemists and neurogeneticists are working on this question on an interdisciplinary basis. The focus is on the processes that create the first sensory building blocks in the sensory organs from the flood of sensory impressions - and the processes that construct a perception from this in the brain. The experts pay particular attention to analysing the interactions between different sensory impressions.

Neurosensory science is one of eleven research focuses at the University of Oldenburg. So far, over 30 working groups have been established in this area, with the Research Centre Neurosensory Science forming the umbrella organisation. It bundles the interdisciplinary activities of the working groups and actively promotes co-operation with non-university institutions. The centre's scientists also see the targeted promotion of young scientists as an important task.

Managing Director

Prof Dr Michael Winklhofer

uol.de/neurosensorics

Centre of excellence for hearing research

The "Hearing4all" cluster of excellence is literally dedicated to "hearing for all". Through improved individualised hearing diagnostics and the provision of personal hearing aids, the scientists aim to significantly improve the communication situation of those affected. The Centre of Excellence for Hearing Research is the joint scientific umbrella structure of the University of Oldenburg, Hannover Medical School and the University of Hanover, which runs the Hearing4all project.

The aim of the centre of excellence is to support and coordinate joint research between the universities at the internationally recognised and well-networked cluster locations of Oldenburg and Hanover. In doing so, it contributes to sustainable, cross-university joint structures that combine basic research with clinical and translational research.

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Managing Director

Sebastian Quirandt

Scientific Director

Prof. Dr Dr Birger Kollmeier

uol.de/centre-of-excellence-for-hearing-research

Interview with Prof Dr Birger Kollmeier

Research networks

Ongoing research networks of the School

These include, among others:

Cluster of excellence EXC 1077 Hearing4all (DFG)
HAPPAA (Collaborative Research Centre Hearing Acoustics: Perceptual Principles, Algorithms and Applications) (DFG)
HEARAZ Hearable-centred assistance: from sensor to participation
iSeFallED - Tailor-made interventions to maintain function for older people after an index fall with presentation at the emergency centre without inpatient admission
OptiPROM - Optimal removal of prostate tissue after minimally invasive enucleation
Nursing Innovation Centre (BMBF)
VIVATOP ("Versatile Immersive Virtual and Augmented Tangible OP") (BMBF)

Completed research networks of the School

These include, among others:

AFSOR ("Cryptochrome based magnetic sensing")
ÄKHOM - Medical Expertise Hamburg Oldenburg Munich (BMBF)
AlarmRedux ("Reduction of acoustic stress for nursing staff in intensive care units") (BMBF)
BBDiag ("Blood Biomarker-based Diagnostic Tools for Early Stage Alzheimer's Disease") (EU)
DiDiER
ESCAlife ("Evidence-based, Stepped Care of ADHD along the life-span") (BMBF)
EurHealth-1Health (Interreg/EU)
Field Potentials in the Auditory System - FEPAS (BMBF)
Research Unit 1732 Individualised Hearing Acoustics (DFG)
Research Training Group 1885 Molecular Basis of Sensory Biology (DFG)
Health-i-care (Interreg/EU)
HOMERN (G-BA)
Inno_RD (Innovation Fund)
iTAGAP ("Integrated Technology and Work Process Development for Health in Outpatient Care") (BMBF)
Clinical Research Unit KFO 250 "Genetic and cellular mechanisms of autoimmune diseases." Sub-project 8: "Effector functions of eosinophil and basophil granulocytes and anti-FC-epsilonRIalpha autoantibodies in bullous pemphigoid." (DFG)
mEEGaHStim ("Mobile EEG-based brain stimulation to improve hearing") (BMBF)
Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 31 Active Hearing (DFG)
NeuroCommTrainer (BMBF)
PP1608 "Ultrafast and temporally precise information processing: Normal and dysfunctional hearing" (DFG)
PROCLAIR ("Linking Patient-Reported Outcomes with CLAIms data for health services Research in rheumatology") (BMBF)
PhD Programme "Hearing" (MWK)
PhD Programme "Signals and Cognition" (MWK)
Safety4Bikes (BMBF) Priority Programme 1665: Resolving and manipulating neuronal networks in the mammalian brain - from correlative to causal analysis (DFG)
LivingCare (www.living-care.de)
STADPLAN (BMBF)
QuoVadis ("Networked living in neighbourhoods with dementia", OFFIS)
Collaborative project Model-based hearing aids: Development and evaluation of innovative model-based techniques for technical hearing aids (BMBF)
WEBWiKo ("Tools and methods for creating small-scale population forecasts and impact scenarios", OFFIS)
Centre for Hearing Research (MWK)

Research networks with the participation of the School

These include, among others:

AEQUIPA ("Physical Activity, Equity and Health: Primary Prevention for Healthy Ageing") (BMBF)
Development of part-time study programmes in nursing and health sciences (BMBF)
EIDEC ("Ethical and social aspects of co-intelligent sensor-based assistance systems in dementia care") (BMBF)
HiGHmed Consortium
Medicine and the temporal structure of a good life - DFG research group
Medolution (OFFIS)
Open community platform for hearing aid algorithm research (NIH)
TESIComP ("Theoretical, ethical and social implications of AI for neuropsychiatric research and practice") (BMBF)
PRISMAE ("The Public (Re-)Negotiation of Intergenerational Solidarity and Responsibility in the Corona-Pandemic - Media Discourse Analysis and Ethical Evaluation") (Volkswagen Foundation)

Other networks

National Network of University Medicine (NUM)

The coronavirus pandemic is leading to major changes in society, healthcare and the economy worldwide and poses major challenges for everyone. The "Network of University Medicine (NUM)", funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), was founded at the beginning of 2020 to better coordinate Covid-19 research and disseminate best practices.

The network pools the expertise of the 36 participating university medical centres in Germany. This enables a quality-assured and rapid response to the Covid-19 pandemic and future crises, and crisis management and patient care can be supported by the new findings.

https://uol.de/medizin/forschung/corona-task-force
https://www.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de

Projects with the participation of University Medicine Oldenburg:

https://uol.de/fk6/forschung/netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin/projekte

Oldenburg Research Network for Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine (OFNI)

The "Oldenburg Research Network for Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine" is one of the focal points of the Scientific Centre "Care Systems and Patient-Oriented Research" at the School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Oldenburg.

https://uol.de/ofni

Cross-Border Institute of Healthcare Systems and Prevention (CBI)

Launched in February 2019, the CBI is a joint initiative of the School V - School of Medicine and Health Sciences at the University of Oldenburg and the University of Groningen/University Medical Centre Groningen. The Aletta Jacobs School of Public Health in Groningen and the Department of Health Research at the University of Oldenburg act as coordinators of the CBI. The CBI is conceived as a unit for co-operation between Groningen and Oldenburg on health-related issues.

https://uol.de/en/cbi

Intersectoral care for vulnerable groups - INGVER

The Intersectoral Care of Vulnerable Groups - INGVER project at University Medicine Oldenburg (UMO) is dedicated to improving the care of vulnerable groups through a cross-sectoral, individualised and interdisciplinary approach. These groups - including high-risk babies, oncology patients and the elderly - have specific, sometimes complex medical and psychosocial needs that require intensive and personalised care.

https:// uol.de/ingver

Responsible: Dean of Research

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Intersectoral care for vulnerable groups - INGVER

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