Projects

Background Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) has been widely applied to dissect cellular heterogeneity in normal and diseased skin. Sebaceous glands, essential skin components with established functions in maintaining skin integrity and emerging roles in systemic energy metabolism, have been largely neglected in scRNAseq studies. Methods Departing from mouse and human skin scRNAseq datasets, we identified gene sets expressed especially in sebaceous glands with the open-source R-package oposSOM. ...

The study employed high quality non-mydriatic (i.e. pupil dilation is not required) fundus photography (FP) (Oculus Nidek AFC-230, 45 FOV) and a infra-red reflectance (IR) en face image obtained by scanning laser ophthalmoscope (SLO) (Heidelberg Spectralis, 30 FOV) to produce representative images of the retina and optic nerve. In order to prove the scale invariance property of tortuosity metrics, ophthalmological photographs from 18 subjects, both eyes, were randomly extracted from the ...

Generating and evaluating synthetic data in the medical domain. The synthetic data could be tabular or image.

Mice RPKM count data as applied in oposSOM. The gene cluster A-H introduced in this publication.

Coordinating investigators Prof. Dr. Jan C. Simon Prof. Dr. Regina Treudler Klinik für Dermatologie, Venerologie und Allergologie, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig

Sponsor Universität Leipzig Ritterstr. 26, 04109 Leipzig

EudraCT: 2009-011737-27

TitelOptimierung der perioperativen maschinellen Ventilation bei adipösen und normalgewichtigen Patienten durch PEEP-Titration anhand der Elektrischen Impedanz-Tomografie – eine randomisierte kontrollierte klinische StudieStudienleitungProf. Dr. Hermann WriggeKlinik und Poliklinik für Anästhesiologie und IntensivtherapieUniversitätsklinikum LeipzigDRKS0000419

TitelEffektivität der transnasalen Insufflation (TNI) im Vergleich zur nicht-invasiven BiPAP-Beatmung bei Patienten mit chronisch respiratorischer Globalinsuffizienz bei COPD**Studienleitung:**Prof. Dr. med. Hubert WirtzDr. med. Jens BräunlichUniversität LeipzigDepartment Innere Medizin, Neurologie und DermatologieAbteilung für Pneumologieclinicaltrials.gov: NCT02007772

TitleGranulocyte colony stimulating factor (G-CSF) to treat acute-on-chronic liver failure: A multicentre randomized trialCoordinating investigator:Prof. Dr. Thomas BergSektion Hepatologie, Klinik und Poliklinik für Gastroenterologie und Rheumatologie, Universitätsklinikum LeipzigSponsorUniversität Leipzig Ritterstr. 26, 04109 LeipzigEudraCT: 2015-002212-32ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT02669680

TitleProspective multicentre trial of Antibody diagnostics in paediatric Coeliac Disease**Coordinating investigator:**Prof. Dr. Thomas MothesInstitut für Laboratoriumsmedizin, Klinische Chemie und Molekulare DiagnostikUniversität LeipzigDRKS-No.: DRKS00003854

Coordinating investigator: Prof. Dr. Florian van Bömmel Sektion Hepatologie, Klinik und Poliklinik für Gastroenterologie und Rheumatologie, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig

Sponsor Universität Leipzig Ritterstr. 26, 04109 Leipzig

EudraCT: 2013-004882-15 DRKS: DRKS00006240

This project serves as a container for all clinical trial of University of Leipzig (IMISE / ZKS) within the framework of the NFDI4Health

The aim of the Head and Neck Group within the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases (LIFE) is to facilitate improvements in the treatment and care of head and neck cancer patients through insights from molecular studies.

The Head and Neck Group within the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases (LIFE) investigates the molecular mechanisms and the diagnostic and prognostic factors of head and neck cancer. For this purpose, we collected phenotypic information from about 300 ...

LIFE Child wants to find out how environmental factors and lifestyles can affect the health of children and adolescents. The aim of the study is to examine civilization diseases such as allergies, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases in more detail. Furthermore, the study also focuses on healthy mental and physical development from the infant to the young adult. The team of the LIFE Child study around Prof. Dr. med. Wieland Kiess would like to examine and question about 5,000 subjects aged ...

The Leipzig Health Atlas (LHA) is an alliance of medical ontologists, medical systems biologists and clinical trials groups to design and implement a multi-functional and quality-assured atlas. It provides models, data and metadata on specific use cases from medical research fields in which our team has scientific and clinical expertise.

PheP is a platform that enables clinical researchers to work together with statisticians and computer scientists in interdisciplinary collaboration to pursue scientific issues that previously seemed economically and technologically unthinkable. For this purpose, it is necessary to build data sets that can be used for clinical-epidemiological and health-economic issues.From phenotypes, i.e. determinable characteristics of patients, further characteristics can be derived and provided via phenotyping. ...

Medical data routinely generated in everyday clinical practice is processed and made available to medical research in a standardized form. Patients benefit from reliable research results, more precise diagnoses and better treatments. In order to link data from care and research, the participating university hospitals in Aachen, Bonn, Essen, Halle, Hamburg, Jena and Leipzig have established sustainable Data Integration Centers. The network partners Ruhr University Bochum, the Düsseldorf University ...

TA3 focusses on the services, service enabling tools, and software that NFDI4Health will provide to the user community. Services and tools that will be developed or advanced during the project will be published as open source software.

This project serves as a container for all COVID-19 related assets, developed at the University of Leipzig and its partners.

The Onto-Med Research Group conducts basic research in formal ontology, designs formal tools for constructing and managing ontologies and develops top level ontologies as well as domain and core ontologies for medicine, bio-medicine and biology, but also for other fields. The Onto-Med group uses an interdisciplinary approach, combining methods from logic, computer science, philosophy and cognitive linguistics. The Onto-Med group considers Formal Ontology as an evolving science which is concerned ...

NFDI4Health - the National Research Data Infrastructure for Personal Health Data - deals with data generated in clinical trials, epidemiological and public health studies. The collection and analysis of these data on health and disease status and important factors influencing it are an essential component for the development of new therapies, comprehensive care approaches and preventive measures in a modern health care system. Although these data already meet high content quality standards, they ...

The aim of the project is to use methods and processes of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII) to contribute to the detection of health risks in patients with polypharmacy. Polypharmacy occurs especially in elderly patients with multimorbidity. Polypharmacy associated with an increased risk for medication errors and drug-drug or drug-disease interactions, which either reduce or intensify the desired effect of individual active substances or lead to undesired adverse drug effects (ADE). In the ...

During 2004 and 2012 the german cancer aid supported the german glioma network (GGN). The GGN is a consortium where university hospitals with clinical focus in neuro-oncology, reference centers for neuroradiology, neuropathology, molecular diagnostics and biometry cooperate. Thanks to the long-term support it was possible to build a network of competence centers for the treatment of brain tumors in Germany wich is characterized by a interdisciplinary collaboration of all specialist disciplines ...

Historic retinal images of subjects with diabetes are scanned and analysed using modern technology. The accuracy of the methods and the usefulness of the findings in the long-term are in the focus. University of Oulu, Department of Ophthalmology/PEDEGO Research Unit 194/2006

The LIFE-Heart study recruited 7,000 patients with suspected coronary heart disease, manifest heart disease or myocardial infarction. All patients received coronary angiography so that the vascular status in the heart is precisely known. In principle, this examination is not feasible in population-related studies. In addition, the patients were thoroughly examined with regard to the general vascular status and the health of the cardiovascular system. Extensive environmental factors were recorded. ...

Goal of the Leipzig Research Center for Civilization Diseases (LIFE) is the investigation of civilization diseases like depression, diabetes, allergies or cardiovascular diseases. For this purpose we collect as much data as possible regarding health and living conditions of the population in Leipzig and provide these data for scientists of the University of Leipzig and other research institutions.

This population-based study examined 10,000 participants randomly selected from the Leipzig population (2011 to 2014). A follow-up is to be carried out from 2017 - 2020. The study mainly included people aged between 40 and 79. All participants underwent a 6-hour study program and people over 60 years of age were invited two more times to in-depth study of cognition and depression and the brain (MRI, EEG). Extensive measurements of genome, metabolome and transcriptome are available. The LIFE-ADULT ...

FAIR4Health is a Horizon 2020 project which aims to FAIRify medical datasets.

The aim of oBIG is to establish modern genome bioinformatics in Armenia to investigate genesis and progression of complex diseases. Therefore we will extend the collaboration between the Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics (IZBI) of Leipzig University and the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB) in Yerevan, Armenia, to accomplish three main aspects of the project:Firstly, current research topics in systems biology of cancer, lung diseases and infections will be addressed by a joint team ...

The vision of Immune Safety Avatar (imSAVAR) is to develop a platform for integrated nonclinical assessments of immunomodulatory therapy safety and efficacy.The imSAVAR is an Innovative Medicines Initiative funded project that aims to develop a standard for integrated nonclinical safety overviews for immune-modulatory investigational new drugs (IND) and clinical trial applications (CTA).Our imSAVAR platform will improve the prediction of the transferability of safety and efficacy of immunomodulators ...

Analysis of the humoral response against HLA alloantigens is performed using museal methods. With the use of AI we aim to predict deleterious antibody production avoiding allograft deterioration and graft loss.

The aim of this project is to validate and improve an in vitro test system developed in a previous project for the prediction of hepatotoxicity induced by chemical substances and drugs. For this purpose, the test system will be supplemented with immunological cells in order to be able to detect idiosyncratic reactions. In the subproject of the working group of Prof. Daniel Seehofer and Dr. Georg Damm, primary liver cells will be provided and the in vitro model will be improved by Kupffer cells.

Aim of the project group "Management of health information systems" is to contribute to a better health care by developing new methods and tools to support the information management.

The project is also known as: MIG - Management von Informationssystemen im Gesundheitswesen

CAPSyS is an interdisciplinary research network that investigates the causes and course of severe pneumonia. The network works in five subprojects at seven locations throughout Germany. CAPSyS is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with 3.8 million euros.

During 2003 and 2011 the german cancer aid funded the molecular mechanisms in malignant lymphomas (MMML) project. It is based on strongly interacting networks of reference pathologists, lymphoma scientists, bioinformaticians and clinical trial groups. Within the project about 1000 lymphoma samples and controls were characterized by gene expression and copy number arrays. The datasets were supplemented by extensive histopathological and clinical descriptions of the lymphoma cases. The aim of the ...

The German Consortium for Hereditary Non-Polyposis Colorectal Cancer has been founded in 1999 by the German Cancer Aid and has been funded by the German Cancer Aid until recently. GC-HNPCC currently comprises 6 university centers providing genetic counseling, histopathological and molecular tissue analysis, genetic testing, and specific structured surveillance programs for early cancer detection at each clinical unit, all based on defined standard operating procedures.

The central objective of HaematoOpt project is to demonstrate that recently developed dynamic mathematical models of normal and leukemic hematopoiesis can be used to practically impact clinical decision- making

MMML-MYC-SYS is a interdisciplinary consortium where partners from clinical haemaoncological study groups, pathologists, geneticicts, cell biologists as well as mathematicians, statisticians and bioinformaticists have allied. The goal is to investigate the process of development of B-cell lymphoma under special consideration of mutation of MYC. MYC is known to support the development and growth of tumors. This consortium collected and evaluated comprehensive molecular-genetic data for this purpose. ...

The joint project "MMML Demonstrators" deals with improvements in the diagnosis and therapy of lymphoma and consists of seven subprojects. In lymphoma, the so-called diffuse large cell B-cell lymphomas (DLBCL) are responsible for the highest number of deaths. Although the disease is curable in principle, approximately one third of patients still die. However, the expression of certain genes in tumor cells and surrounding tissues can be used to diagnose certain subgroups of these tumors and, in ...

The NLP4CR project was initiated as part of Colleen Goldberg's master thesis. Medical information is not always available in a structured form, but as free text documentation. NLP techniques make it possible to analyse, annotate and extract these free texts. In this way, medical data can be made accessible for machine processing and for clinical research.

The Leipzig Melanoma Studies project consists of studies of the Department of Dermatology, Venereology and Allergology (Leipzig University), Interdisciplinary Center for Bioinformatics (IZBI, Leipzig University) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig. Single cell transcriptome analyses of melanoma cases and cultures where preformed in the studies.

The aim of the MDR-Evaluation project was an evaluation of the possible application scenarios for metadata repositories by a larger group of experts. The focus was not on concrete software, but on the community's basic expectation of a web-based database of data elements.

Metadata repositories (MDR) are databases for data elements that can be used both in research, e.g. in clinical studies or epidemiological cohorts, and in care, e.g. in hospital information systems. These data elements are not ...

As an interdisciplinary network of scientists, the SepNet study group deals with the topics of severe sepsis and septic shock. The aim of the network is to create the prerequisites for better clinical and experimental research into sepsis and thus to develop efficient treatment approaches.

The group is interested in omic-level studies including the genome, methylome, transcriptome, and metabolome of the general population as well as of various diseases including cardiovascular diseases, pneumonia, sepsis, obesity, and brain cancers. Additionally, we aim at transfering results of biomathematical model simulations into clinical practice e.g. by haematopoietic growth-factor opimization during cytotoxic chemotherapy and optimization of EPO applications in chronic kidney disease.

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B-cell lymphoma is the most frequent lymphoid neoplasia accounting for one third of all lymphomas. R-CHOP (rituximab, cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine and prednisolone) is the current treatment standard, leading to high cure rates especially in younger patients. Although the 3-year event-free survival is about 60% even for elderly patients between 60-80 years old, the remainder of patients eventually relapse and the majority die of their disease. The German Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Study ...

The German Consortium for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer HBOC has been founded in 1996 by the German Cancer Aid and has been funded by the German Cancer Aid until recently. GC-HBOC currently comprises 17 university centers providing genetic counseling, histopathological and molecular tissue analysis, genetic testing, and specific structured surveillance programs for early cancer detection at each clinical unit, all based on defined standard operating procedures.

Project for testing requests and functions of LHA

e:Med has the objective of establishing systems medicine in Germany. e:Med promotes system-oriented research into diseases in order to facilitate improved prevention, more comprehensive diagnostics and individually adjusted therapy schemes in individualized medicine. The program brings together scientists with molecular-genetic, clinical, mathematical and information technology expertise, with the objective of ensuring that research results quickly benefit patients.

In the interdisciplinary consortium HaematoSys partners from leading clinical haematooncological study groups, pathologists, geneticists, cell biologists as well as mathematicians, statisticians and bioinformaticians have joined forces.

Gastric cancer (GC) is a complex disease that represents the fifth most common malignancy in the world and the third leading cause of cancer death in both sexes. GC shows a high level of heterogeneity as well as a marked gender difference in incidence, GC affecting twice as many men as women. Chemotherapy (Ct) combined with surgery represents the standard of care for stages II-III GC, but the efficacy of such treatments is still limited for many patients. It is mandatory to develop novel therapeutic ...

The aim of the project is to investigate the range of residuals possible for people of similar height/weight.