Success Stories
Virtual Liver Cells Optimize Drug Development
Insilico Biotechnology AG from Stuttgart with new funding for systems biology research from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Liver in 3D
Surgery without cutting open the patient –OrganNicer software from the German Cancer Research Center is revolutionising surgeons’ planning.
Speeding up drug development
An informatics professor at the University of Tübingen shows molecules as they’ve never been seen before. This also helps to accelerate the development of new medications.
At a glance
The EyeVisionBot at the Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe could revolutionise the handling of images: it searches for photo-graphs in databases or on the Internet and is controlled solely by eye movements.
The computer takes the strain
Young, creative, successful – Britta Nestler is the figurehead of a new generation of female professors. Her specialised field: the simulation of crystal growth in materials - and even the motion of cells in blood.
