About us

The TMF - Technology and Methods Platform for Networked Medical Research e.V. stands for research, networking, and digitalization in medicine. It is the umbrella organization for collaborative medical research in Germany, within which top researchers exchange knowledge, work together to develop ideas and concepts, and thus shape the future of medical research in the digital age.

What We Do

Improving the framework conditions for research

Shaping digitalization in health research

Creating expert opinions and policy recommendations

Networking experts

Bundling interests

Creating infrastructures for research

Vision

Innovations in medical research and healthcare are based on data. Our vision is to make research and healthcare data usable for the improvement of prevention and therapy options. Together with biomaterials, they form the basis for the development of personalized medicine. The key to this lies in digitalization and cooperation across locations, institutions, and sectors. The establishment of a general research data infrastructure is, therefore, essential.

Mission

We bring together researchers from different disciplines and stakeholders from science and healthcare, politics and society, and develop concepts, infrastructures, and methods that advance healthcare research and medical care.

With sustainable infrastructures, we strengthen Germany as a science location in European and international competition.

With sustainable infrastructures, we strengthen Germany as a science location in European and international competition.

We promote interdisciplinary dialog in the workgroups, which are primarily made up of representatives of TMF members (research networks and institutions). Scientific and methodological projects can be initiated from the joint discourse to develop solutions. The results of the TMF's work are publicly available and free of charge.

With our projects and events, we bring different institutions in the healthcare system into discourse with each other: Stakeholders in patient care and clinical research, experts in research infrastructure or standardization, researchers from universities come together with non-university research institutions, federal institutes are involved as well as expert associations and associations from related fields.

Results

The TMF contributes to

making methodological know-how and infrastructures available for medical research,
strengthening harmonization, interoperability, and quality management through appropriate infrastructure, guidelines, and services,
strengthening collaboration in German medical research and German researchers in international collaborations,
supporting the continuity and sustainability of academic medical research projects,

and the sensible use of funds in medical research.

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