Prof. Wanka announced HiGHmed and three other Consortia as Partners for a Digital Healthcare System in Germany

Today, Prof. Wanka — head of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research — announced the HiGHmed Medical Informatics Consortium as funded project consortium in the BMBF Federal Medical Informatics Initiative. Together with the three consortia DIFUTURE, SMITH, and MIRACUM, we are looking forward to sharpen the vision of a digital healthcare system in Germany in the upcoming years.

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Matthieu-P. Schapranow: Dr.-Ing. Matthieu-P. Schapranow is Leader of the Working Group "In-Memory Computing for Digital Health" and Scientific Manager Digital Health Innovations at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI). He is a valued member of the Platform Learning Systems and contributes to the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) and the Global Alliance for Genomics and Health. Dr.-Ing. Schapranow holds a PhD as well as the MSc and BSc degrees in Software Engineering. He was named as one of the top Elite Researchers in Life Sciences in 2016 and one of Germany's Top 10 Junior Scientists in 2015. Furthermore, he was honored with the Personalized Medicine Convention Award 2015, the European Life Science Award in 2014, and the Innovation Award of the German Capital Region in 2012. Together with Prof. Dr. Plattner, he published the textbook "High-Performance In-Memory Genome Data Analysis" in 2013.