Graduate School of Information Science in Health (GSISH)

The Graduate School of Information Science in Health (GSISH) is a young & highly innovative Graduate School of the Departments of Medicine and Informatics of the Technische Universität München. The school provides interdisciplinary doctoral education at the interface of informatics and medicine, ranging from bioinformatics to biomedical engineering to health informatics.

The GSISH believes that due to substantial changes within medicine and the whole health care domain, a key role has emerged for informatics in health, in health technology and in related fields. To face these challenges, multidisciplinary collaboration between informatics, medicine, and many other fields has become essential. The school fosters this multidisciplinarity by establishing an institutionalized framework, which

• transfers our broad scientific and industrial knowledge
• translates research results into the practice of health care
• creates an 'osmosis' between science and industry

The GSISH vision is to educate a new breed of scientists, who

• start early on with joint research and training
• live true multidisciplinarity
• understand other ways of thinking
• bridge cultural gaps and build common ground

The GSISH educates scientists, who can combine this multidisciplinary knowledge and skills from the areas of medicine and informatics and transfer them into practice. To put it more concretely, we train our doctoral candidates to

• understand molecular mechanisms of diseases based on biological networks
• visualize diseases, increasing granularity down to molecules
• study & apply new fine-grained insights into disease mechanisms for personalized medicine, including identifying personal risks and targeting preventive interventions
• construct sensors and devices for research, diagnosis, treatment
• gain & apply knowledge about genetic variation in the population
• analyze and evaluate cost-effectiveness of health care interventions