Department of Health Science and Technology

Our mission is to establish competencies at the highest scientific level within medical and technological aspects of the health scene - spanning from cell to system. Through interaction of engineering and medical disciplines we develop methods to:

understand and control human biological systems

diagnose and restore impaired physiological functions

retrieve, transmit, interpret and present patient-specific information

Clinical domains for our research include:
Neurorehabilitation, motor control, pain, neurophysiology, cardiotechnology, neurobiology, immunology, stem cells, work-related neuromuscular impairments, diabetes, neurosurgery, medical imaging, intensive care, pervasive healthcare, tele-medicine, and clinical information systems.

Virtual dental treatment causes
cerebral activation

Professor Jens Ellrich and his Medical Physiology & Experimental Pharmacology Group received the Best Paper Award from the scientific committee of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the German Society for Dentistry 2010 for the paper "Cerebral activations resulting from virtual dental treatment". This paper focuses on central nervous system activation evoked by simulation of a dental drill treatment. See paper.

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