Translational Medicine

The translation of scientific findings from basic and preclinical research into clinical trials and the care of the population is one of the central challenges in medicine. The Elite Graduate Program “Translational Medicine” provides scientifically active physicians (Clinician Scientists) with tools to combine research and health care and to master the transfer from bench to bedside and from bedside to population.

The train­ing pro­gram com­prises theo­retical and practi­cal parts, rang­ing from basic exper­imental bio­medi­cal re­search to clini­cal and epi­de­mio­logical re­search and clini­cal trials. Con­cepts of trans­lation­al medi­cine, the critical analy­sis of scien­tific litera­ture and partic­ipation in re­search pro­jects are inte­gral parts of the curric­ulum.

The train­ing pro­gram can be com­pleted in par­allel to medi­cal stud­ies as addi­tional stud­ies or inde­pen­dently as a subse­quent mas­ter’s course. The Elite Grad­uate Pro­gram thus pro­motes partic­ularly talent­ed young scien­tists in medi­cine at an early stage and in a tar­geted man­ner. Grad­uates have the best quali­fica­tions for a career as Clini­cian Scien­tists and are quali­fied both pro­fes­sional­ly and per­sonal­ly for lead­ing posi­tions at uni­versi­ties, clinics and in the private sec­tor.