• The main goal is to establish a data integration centre (DIZ) in Oldenburg, in order to make the routine data available and accessible for (medical) research.
• Main tasks of the DIZ: Data transfer from various data-providing (hospital) systems, consolidation and processing of these data and the assurance of data quality.
• As part of a sustainable infrastructure, the DIZ can make an important contribution to FAIR data management. FAIR in this case means Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable.

More information on the project can be found here.

Further information on the Medical Informatics Initiative and the HighMed Consortium can be found here.

Local PIs:

Prof. Dr. Antje Wulff

Marc Wilken

• Establishment of a nationwide infrastructure for collecting radiological data from Covid-19 cases.
• Provision of real-time assessed and analysed data from Covid 19 pneumonia cases. 
• Development of an AI for the analysis of image data.

More information about the project can be found here.

Local PIs:

Prof. Dr. Björn Poppe

PD Dr. med. Christian Mathys

PD Dr. med. Alexander Kluge

• The overarching goals are to research the collateral health effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and to identify important factors that trigger these effects
• This "surveillance infrastructure" is intended to protect vulnerable groups in particular from such collateral health effects in the future
• In order to achieve these goals, the following structures will be established and developed within this project:
  1. A national platform for research into such collateral damage
  2. A sustainable interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research network within the NUM
• In Oldenburg, collateral damage to pre-existing mental illnesses and cancers in the ENT area will be investigated and characterized in more detail

Local PIs:

Prof. Dr. Dr. René Hurlemann

Prof. Dr. med. Katrin Radeloff

• Continuation of the NAPKON project: Collection of high-quality clinical phenotyping data, including biospecimens and image data.
• Focus changed to the inclusion of control patients, paediatric patients and controls of patients with vaccine breakthroughs.
• Inclusion of over 50 patients at all three participating Oldenburg hospitals.

Further information on the project can be found here.

Local PIs:

Prof. Dr. Axel Hamprecht

Prof. Dr. Astrid Petersmann

• The main objective of PREPARED is to develop a comprehensive, collaborative, adaptable and sustainable infrastructure for pandemic management and preparedness within the NUM.
• The goal is to ensure patient healthcare in times of crisis and to enable and ensure coordinated, rapid and evidence-based responses to public health threats.

Local PIs:

PD Dr Anna Levke Brütt

• The main goal is to develop and implement a pipeline for COVID-specific and prognostic imaging biomarker extraction to enable the phenotyping of the disease and the patient him/herself.
• The results will help to improve patient management and the understanding of different Covid-19 disease patterns and the organ-organ crosstalk specific to the virus.

More information about the project can be found here.

Local PIs:

Prof. Dr. Björn Poppe

PD Dr. med. Christian Mathys

PD Dr. med. Alexander Kluge

• The aim of the project is to create a university telemedicine network (UTN) for high-frequency, standardized, electronic data acquisition and integration for COVID-19 research
• To this end, a common, interoperable, standardized and secure telemedicine infrastructure is to be created that implements and unites the heterogeneous telemedicine data infrastructures and networks that have prevailed to date

Local PI:

PD Dr. med. Daniel Overheu

• Establishment of a Germany-wide, population-based panel to test the population’s immunity to SARS-CoV2 through vaccination and infection.
• This will provide prospective and retrospective epidemiological estimates for the expected wave of disease in autumn and winter 2022.
• Oldenburg acts as the central laboratory in this national project

Local PI:

Prof. Dr. Astrid Petersmann

• Main focus of this project is to characterize the vaccination status of Ukrainian refugees.
• The data collected in this context should advance the identification of care needs in the group of war refugees to formulate appropriate recommendations.
• Oldenburg functions as the central laboratory in this national project.

Persons involved:

Prof. Dr. Astrid Petersmann

Prof.Dr. Axel Hamprecht