About us

Organization

DDM’s activities are outlined into three major pillars:

Dissemination

PILLAR II

Across research, education programs, ethics, and the start-ups we create, DDM actively disseminates outcomes and opportunities, convenes stakeholders, and catalyzes cross-fertilization to sustain a thriving digital medicine ecosystem. We communicate through open resources, public briefings, and co-created events with patients, clinicians, industry, educators, and policymakers; our networking seeds enduring partnerships, showcases success stories, and delivers training that helps institutions adopt and scale digital medicine responsibly, while raising public awareness of DDM’s role and enabling society’s informed engagement.

Research

PILLAR III

The Department of Digital Medicine leads research that transforms cutting-edge ideas into tangible healthcare solutions. We aim to identify and nurture novel concepts with the potential to redefine future therapeutic and clinical approaches, ensuring every initiative follows a realistic, deliverable path toward patient benefit. Researchers at the DDM work from early-stage concepts through rigorous proof-of-concept studies, helping refine and validate these technologies. By combining scientific excellence, technological expertise, and a focus on real-world impact, this creates a dynamic environment where digital innovation can move swiftly from the lab to the clinic.

Technology Streams

Technology streams consolidate domain expertise to advance digitalization and systematically facilitate the exchange of methodologies and best practices across research programs. The initial streams are dedicated to Omics, Large Language Models, Sensors and Devices, Clinical Data, and Imaging Data.

Safety & Biases, Diversity & Ethics

The speed at which our healthcare system is becoming digitalized and how it is benefiting from artificial intelligence raises questions that go far beyond the realm of science. In fact, we are currently reinventing our image of humanity. This raises a variety of ethical, legal and social challenges regarding security, potential biases, identity, diversity, responsibility and so on. We do not want to wait for these challenges to arise, but rather anticipate and shape them, discuss and analyze them, both in teaching, in direct exchange between researchers and clinicians, but also in public debate.