Set up a new study
The NUM offers various support services for researchers who would like to conduct a study - regardless of whether you already have funding for your research project or would like to participate in a NUM call for proposals with a project idea.
Do you already have funding for your research project and are looking for supporting platforms, tools or advice? Or are you currently planning an application for third-party funding and still looking for an infrastructure partner?
General counselling services
Aim
The NUM-MB provides all researchers and infrastructures with a comprehensive and needs-based consulting and support portfolio along the entire course of the project (planning, implementation, evaluation and subsequent utilisation). This applies to primary data, routine clinical data and external data as well as biosamples and the resulting data.
Support services
The NUM-MB's services include advice on clinical and genetic epidemiology, patient-reported outcomes, external care-related data, paediatric cohorts and clinical data science as well as support on biosamples, ethics, regulation and data protection throughout the course of the project. The interdisciplinary expertise is requested via a central contact. Enquiries are processed in NUM-MB and lead to individual consultations if required. NUM-MB also assists with the application for and utilisation of data and biosamples collected in NUM studies and offers methodological, regulatory and logistical support.
Aim
The NUM study network is a Germany-wide infrastructure through which clinical and clinical-epidemiological studies can be conducted faster, more efficiently and with higher quality.
Support services
The NUM study network provides support in conducting studies through standardised processes, local contact persons and a central online portal. This relieves the administrative and operational burden on researchers and allows them to concentrate more on their research. Contact the NUM SN if you would like to conduct a study at the NUM centres.
Goal
To systematically strengthen clinical infection research in Germany: through faster, more effective study implementation, high-quality data and biosample collection and pandemic preparedness.
Support services
The infrastructure of the specialist network is open to researchers from the academic and commercial context to conduct further infectiological studies once the study project has been approved.
Aim
NUKLEUS develops and operates the research data infrastructure for the efficient joint planning, implementation and evaluation of clinical and clinical-epidemiological studies in the Network University Medicine in order to make high-quality data, biosamples and analysis results widely available to the scientific community.
Support services
NUKLEUS creates a space of trustful collaboration, comprises ready-to-use solutions and interdisciplinary expertise in scientific methodology, organisation and technologies and implements them quickly and in the best possible way. NUKLEUS works supra-regionally and across sectors, co-operates with existing infrastructures and initiatives and has international connections. Among other things, NUKLEUS provides structures for data storage and subsequent utilisation of the collected data. In NUM 3.0, the existing research data infrastructure (RDI) will be expanded to include support for adaptive clinical platform studies.
Goal
To maintain a Germany-wide radiological Reseach Infrastructure for the structured collection, standardisation, AI-supported analysis and use of clinical image data to support multi-centre studies.
Support services
RACOON connects all German university hospitals via a central, standardised platform for radiological image data. Researchers and clinicians can securely curate, annotate and analyse image data from various sources - including clinical studies, registries, AMG/MPG and self-initiated studies - using AI tools. Access is project-based and requires the review of ethics and data protection concepts. RACOON thus supports both radiological research and clinical studies based on imaging data.
Contact: office@racoon.network
Aim
The NUM-DIZ provide researchers with data from university patient care.
Support services
The NUM-DIZ offer technical and organisational support for the implementation of cross-site, data-driven research. Researchers can obtain an overview of the available data in the Research Data Portal for Health (FDPG), carry out targeted feasibility queries and apply for data. They can use free text fields to select data modules and define inclusion and exclusion criteria with and-or links in order to obtain a live case number. In this way, the FDPG supports researchers in carrying out cross-site research projects based on harmonised data - from the research idea to contracts, analysis tools and the provision of data. Furthermore, information for patients is made available in the transparency portal.
Contact: mii-num-diz-koordination@fau.de
Local DIZ: Advice and support for programming and carrying out data analyses
Objective
AKTIN enables the daily updated, continuous, standardised collection and use of routine data for care research, quality assurance and health planning in Emergency Departments and, in the future, intensive care units and preclinics.
Support services
AKTIN supports clinics, researchers and healthcare institutions by providing access to quality-assured emergency room data as well as intensive care units and preclinics. The infrastructure offers advice on study planning, applications for data utilisation, data provision and research cooperation.
Contact: office@aktin.org
Aim
NATON provides an expert platform for networked autopsy-based research.
Support services
The methods platform can be used to review research projects, integrate organ-specific expertise and develop recommendations for the quality assurance of samples and innovative autopsy methods. Local autopsy centres are supported in building up capacities and carrying out complex diagnostics. The NATON Office coordinates the network, communicates with partners and stakeholders and provides organisational support for projects and collaborations. NATON not only acts as a central interface between centres and research, but also involves public health stakeholders, provides research results for clinical issues and promotes close feedback between science, patient care and pandemic management.
Contact: info@naton.network
NUM Hub
The NUM Hub is the NUM web portal. There, the NUM community has the opportunity to cooperate with each other in various areas (e.g. cooperation portal, convention portal, sub-project portals). Several tools are available to the NUM community for this purpose, such as the cloud, survey tool, calendar and task management. In addition, the admin portal of the NUM Hub contains a wealth of helpful information and files that make it easier to work together in the network.
All employees at NUM locations can access the NUM Hub free of charge.
Would you like to promote your study idea through the NUM?
The specific requirements for research projects in the NUM are explained in the calls for proposals. As a rule, research projects are only eligible for funding in the NUM if they utilise and further develop the Reseach Infrastructure in accordance with the requirements in the calls for proposals. In principle, the NUM funds clinical, clinical-epidemiological or other practice-changing research and pursues a cooperative approach based on partnership and data exchange. For this reason, NUM funding requires project participation from most or all German university medical centres. To achieve its goals, the NUM supports large, multi-centre research projects, clinical and clinical-epidemiological studies and platforms that are not funded or organised by other research or funding institutions due to their scope or structure.
All projects funded by the NUM fall into one of two categories:
- Platforms: The NUM provides interoperable platforms for the design and implementation of cooperative research projects at national level. The platforms support the planning, implementation and evaluation of clinical and clinical-epidemiological studies on the one hand and provide structures, data and biosamples for secondary use on the other.
- Research projects ("use cases"): The multi-centre clinical and clinical-epidemiological studies and data analyses in the NUM use the NUM platforms to carry out their research project and test and further develop the NUM platforms. The data and biosamples collected in studies are available in the NUM for subsequent use to answer further research questions.
Please contact the NUM Coordination Office (contact: forschungsnetzwerk-unimedizin@charite.de) or the respective platforms directly:
- AKTIN: office@aktin.org
- NATON: info@naton.network
- NUM-DIZ: mii-num-diz-koordination@fau.de
- NUKLEUS: info@nukleus.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de
- NUM MB: info@qsmb.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de
- NUM SN: info@sn.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de
- SNID: snid@sn.netzwerk-universitaetsmedizin.de
- RACOON: office@racoon.network