Institute News

Fraunhofer MEVIS is once again participating in Girls' Day on April 3 with an extensive program on the topic of “Digital Medicine”. The aim is to arouse the interest of around 20 participating schoolgirls from the 7th grade onwards in scientific content, to convey this in a practical way and to show them perspectives within the STEM subjects.

From April 8 to 10 DMEA 2025, Europe’s leading digital health event, will take place at Messe Berlin, bringing together experts from healthcare, IT, and research to showcase and discuss the latest developments, technologies, and solutions for digitalization in healthcare. Our experts look forward to welcoming you at the joint booth of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Hall 2.2, Booth D-109. This year Fraunhofer MEVIS presents AI-powered solutions for informed decisions and better patient care:

MOIN, short for Model Region for Industrial Mathematics, aims to make mathematics tangible in everyday life, spark interest in the subject, and improve its attractiveness in schools in the long term—for example by contributing to the new upper secondary specialization “Digital Medicine” at the Oberschule am Waller Ring secondary school. Fraunhofer MEVIS, a partner of MOIN and member organization of the U Bremen Research Alliance (UBRA), aims to contribute to strengthening innovation in the region.

The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) is an international event, renowned for its significance in radiology. It ranks among Europe's largest medical gatherings and globally as the second-largest radiological congress. A key highlight of this year’s ECR is Pixel Pandemonium, a showcase of novel AI and machine learning tools for medical imaging. This first-of-its-kind session is co-hosted by Fraunhofer MEVIS institute director Prof. Horst Hahn and is endorsed by the Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI). Fraunhofer MEVIS is excited to contribute to this year’s program with an oral presentation, a poster, and several live demonstrations.

Artificial intelligence and computer-aided support for diagnosis and therapy in digital medicine—these are the topics the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Medicine MEVIS is presenting at the SPIE Medical Imaging conference, which is held in San Diego/USA from February 16 to 20. This year, Fraunhofer MEVIS is again well represented at the renowned conference with numerous scientific and educational contributions, including a live demonstration workshop, two training courses, three oral and six poster presentations.

Fraunhofer MEVIS simplifies the introduction to MRI imaging with a workshop for students.

Prof. Dr. med. Fabian Kiessling has been recognized by Clarivate as a Highly Cited Researcher 2024 in the Pharmacology and Toxicology category. This is the sixth consecutive year he has been on the Highly Cited Researcher list, having already been recognized in the same category between 2021 and 2023 as well as in the Cross-Field category in 2019 and 2020.

On the occasion of Breast Health Awareness Month, the “Breast Health Awareness STEAM Workshop” took place at the Institute on October 28th—an event by women for women, featuring scientists, school students from the trial run of the “Digital Medicine” specialization at the Oberschule am Waller Ring, along with their friends, mothers, and teachers.

Andrea Schenk, Deputy Director of Fraunhofer MEVIS and Professor of Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Therapy at Hannover Medical School, has been a visiting professor at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) for three months since August 1, 2024.

“We Flow into the World, and the World Flows into Us — The Beauty of Blood Flow" wins Industry Award for Best Animation at the Raw Science Film Festival 2024. The Awards Ceremony was held on October 5, 2024, in New York, USA.