Federal funding
The large-scale research projects of the Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus funded by the federal government are listed below (as at 31.12.2025).
Key Area: Oncological Diseases
- 6G-life²: Digital Transformation and Sovereignty of Future Communication Networks (joint project)
- CAMINO: Career development for advanced research physicians in multidimensional tumor research
- CanCorrect: Preclinical validation and transfer of optimized CRISPR base editors into personalized cancer diagnostics and therapy
- CART4CLL: Entwicklung einer neuartigen mutationsspezifischen CAR-T-Zelltherapie für eine Hochrisikovariante der Chronisch Lymphatischen Leukämie (joint project)
- CIRCULATE: Tumor-DNA based decision on adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II colon cancer
- COMPASS: Decompressive stoma and two-stage elective resection vs. emergency resection in patients with left-sided obstructive colon cancer
- DECIPHER-M: Deciphering Metastasis with Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Foundation Models
- DEEP-HCC: LiSyM-Cancer Phase II - Detailed analysis of the spatial organization of the development of hepatocellular carcinoma (Verbund)
- HEROES-AYA: Heterogeneity, evolution and resistance in fusion-driven sarcomas in adolescents and young adults (Collaboration)
- ImplementDIGA: Research into the implementation process of digital health applications and their effects in standard care
- MISSION4SAX: Optimized surgical treatment and study management of oncological patients in Eastern Saxony
- PEARL: Prevention of colorectal cancer in young and middle-aged adults (consortium)
- SAXOCELL EDIT-SAVE: New approaches in the treatment of blood, autoimmune and cancer diseases through safe and virus-independent genome editing (collaboration)
- SAXOCELL NK ALLIANCE: Ex vivo-modified natural killer cells for immunotherapy of tumors and autoimmune diseases (Verbund)
- SAXOCELL MSC-READY: Development of MSC-based drugs and their industrial, data-integrated and AI-supported volume production in Germany (consortium)
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SAXOCELL UNIK-T: Universal AI-guided designer AlloCAR-T cell therapy against tumor, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases (consortium)
- SPIZ: Cross-sector care for patients with hematological diseases following innovative cell therapy
- SurgicalAIHubGermany: Objective measurement of surgical quality through the establishment of a data-based value creation network (Verbund)
Key Area: Metabolic Diseases
- FERROPath: Ferroptosis as a fundamental pathomechanism in tissue ischemia/reperfusion injury (joint project)
- PEDNET-LC: Pediatric Network for Care and Clinical Research on Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID-19, similar Post-Acute Infection and Vaccination Syndromes and ME/CFS (joint project)
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SaxoCHILD: DZKJ development funding - Leipzig/Dresden site (joint project)
Key Area: Neurological & Mental Health Disorders
- CONNECTION: Trauma outpatient clinics in the care network
- KoCoN: IT-supported cross-sectoral patient pathways for the care of children with complex chronic neurological diseases
- PACE-Therapy2: Pathological cell extrusion in the retina and gastrointestinal tract, biomechanics, modeling and coordination
- POTENTIAL: POst-Therapy ENhanced Thrombocyte Inhibition At Low NIHSS score
Cluster: Medical Data Science & Smart Technologies
- CDS2USE: Prospective user-oriented design of clinical decision support systems in the context of personalized medicine
- Clinostat-3DBioprint: 3DBioprint
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GeMTeX: Medical informatics methods platform "German Medical Text Corpus" (joint project)
- MiHUB: Medical Informatics Hub (joint project)
- NUM 3.0: Network University Medicine 3.0 (joint project)
- MIRACUM: NSG AG work Medical Informatics Consortium (joint project)
- PM4Onco: Medical Informatics Use Case "Personalized Medicine for Oncology" (joint project)
- SEMECO A2: Psychoactive multisensory communication implant (joint project)
- SEMECO A3: Real-time network - patient-centered data and communication (joint project)
- SEMECO Q2: AI-assisted regulation for medicine and cybersecurity (joint project)
- SEMECO Q4: Secure Medical Microsystems and Communications - Economic Transfer and Science Communication (joint project)
- 3DP-SKINSPACE: Preparatory project for the production of artificial skin by means of bioprinting in space
- Somnolink: Medical informatics use case "Networked sleep data and decision support along the patient pathway for better care in obstructive sleep apnea"
- WITS: Wireless Intracellular Transceiver System
Cluster: Prevention & Public Health
- B(e) NAMSE: Telemedicine-supported, interdisciplinary and cross-age care for people with rare diseases through NAMSE-B center clusters (network)
- KitaGesund: "Data for action" at nursery age
- Mo2Regio: Cross-sector monitoring and modeling of regional healthcare provision
- SichereGeburt: Safe birth care network: structured care for pregnant women and newborns across care levels, disciplines and disciplines