The Else Kröner Fresenius Center (EKFZ) for Digital Health is a joint initiative of Dresden University Medicine with the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology and the Faculty of Computer Science of the TU Dresden as well as non-university partners. With its foundation, a new interdisciplinarity between high technology and medicine was created on the Dresden campus. The common vision is to bundle the expertise of physicians and high-tech specialists in order to create ideal conditions for promising medical research.

CeTI’s central vision is to enable humans to interact in quasi real-time with cyber-physical systems (CPS) in the real or virtual world over intelligent wide-area communication networks. Such advances go far beyond the current state-of-the-art approaches in computer and engineering sciences

At the National Center for Tumor Diseases Dresden (NCT/UCC), research and patient care are linked as closely as possible. Cancer patients benefit from treatment based on cutting-edge scientific knowledge. At the same time, the proximity of laboratory and clinic gives scientists important impulses for their practice-oriented research.