A new graduate school for the development of imaging in medicine will open its doors next April in Berlin, according to a statement from the German Radiology Society (DRG).
Part of the BIOQIC (Biophysical quantitative imaging towards clinical diagnosis) project, the school will be funded by the German Research foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft - DFG) with project funding by Charité Medical University and Freie University Berlin, the organizations said in a statement. Also involved are Berlin Technical University, Leibniz Institute of Molecular Pharmacology, and the National Technical Research Institute (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt).
The research program will focus on the image-based determination of system-independent, tissue-specific, biophysical parameters.
Within the framework of the new BIOQIC graduate program, doctoral students in imaging science will be supported in developing and applying biophysical-based, quantitative medical imaging in clinical pilot studies, the school stated. BIOQIC provides interinstitutional and interdisciplinary research and teaching between funded institutes and clinical institutes at Charité as well as other regional entities.
The support of doctoral students by physicians and basic scientists will facilitate the transfer of the newly developed methods into the clinical realm, said Dr. Ingolf Sack, a professor at the Charité Institute of Radiology and spokesperson for the graduate school. The training includes 15 subprojects within the topics of fluid transport, tissue mechanics, and tissue structures, which will include quantitative analysis of image markers within the program, which begins on 1 April.
