AI Health Innovation Cluster

The AI Health Innovation Cluster was bringing together leading scientists at the interface of artificial intelligence (AI), healthcare, and data science with the goal of combining and further developing the outstanding research networks and infrastructures in modern health data sciences that have emerged in the Rhine-Neckar region in Germany in recent years. The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg University, Heidelberg University Hospital, University Hospital Mannheim, the Central Institute of Mental Health, and the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research joined forces in the AI Health Innovation Cluster (AIH). The collaboration among these seven institutions intended to generate sustainable synergies in the academic, medical, and health economic sectors and to improve the transfer of innovative technologies from health research into products and clinical practice. Through a competitive fellowship program, AIH funded 55 interdisciplinary projects that link data infrastructures, AI methods research, ethical-legal research issues, and clinical application fields across disciplines. The top criterion for the projects was scientific excellence.