Institute News

As part of its activities to promote young talent, Fraunhofer MEVIS once again offered a course at this year's Informatica Feminale for female practitioners from all disciplines with an interest in medicine, computer science, and mathematics.

Giving society a better idea of the importance of mathematics for innovation and our everyday lives and making the best possible use of mathematical results are the goals of the sustainable model region for industrial mathematics (MOIN) in Bremen, Bremerhaven, and the district of Osterholz. The aim is to establish industrial mathematics as a driver of innovation in business and industry, raise public awareness of industrial mathematics, and make maths in schools attractive again. The transfer project has now been honored with the NordWest Award 2024 from the Metropolitan Region Northwest.

Starting with the 2025/26 school year in summer 2025, there will be a new offer for Bremen students at the secondary school Oberschule am Waller Ring, which has a health focus: recently, the school authorities approved the “Digital Medicine” specialization. It sheds light on the part of medicine that addresses the question of how digital methods can improve healthcare. The role of imaging techniques and the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) are prominent examples. The profile is offered in cooperation with the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS. The first trial run is now starting at the MEVIS partner school Oberschule am Waller Ring (formerly part of the Walle school center). It enables interested students to take a look at the future professional fields of medicine.

On July 10, 2024, at the Curious Future Insight Conference, experts from science and industry discussed the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in health research in a workshop organized by Fraunhofer Health. The biennial conference with over 2,000 participants highlights societal challenges from the perspectives of science, technology and innovation.

At this year’s World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM) in Vancouver, Fraunhofer MEVIS scientist Elin Theilen will give an oral presentation about “Prediction of patient-specific knee joint dynamics in tibial fractures”.

Fraunhofer MEVIS participates in a new special exhibition at Universum® Bremen, showing the many faces of the key technology.

On Friday, June 21, 2024, the 16th meeting of the Fraunhofer MEVIS Advisory Board took place in Bremen under the direction of Prof. Hans Maier, Chairman of the Advisory Board.

The EU-funded project TACTIX was kicked off successfully by a joint workshop held in Istanbul at Bogaziçi University (BOUN) on June 4 and 5. Approximately 40 members and students from the Faculty for Biomedical Engineering attended the official project kickoff, followed by the first meeting of the project's General Assembly to plan the next three years of work packages.

As an institute working with human medical data from all over the world, Fraunhofer MEVIS relies on diversity as an important asset. To raise awareness of diversity and unconscious bias and increase the visibility of diversity at the institute, Fraunhofer MEVIS is celebrating German Diversity Day 2024 on May 28 with on-site and online activities.

From May 8 to 10, 2024, the radiology community will gather at the 105th German Radiology Congress, short “RÖKO”, in Wiesbaden, Germany. The motto of this year’s congress is “Radiology in Transformation” and will focus primarily on AI (artificial intelligence) applications. Fraunhofer MEVIS has contributions to several sessions of the RÖKO Wiesbaden and RÖKO Digital.