Research Infrastructure and Core Units
Scientific service facilities
Data Integration Center
The intention of the work in the Data Integration Center (DIC) is to enable medical information to be collected, stored and exchanged in a form in which it can be optimally used for healthcare and research. The services of the DIC contribute directly to health data usage as well as to the establishment of a research-compatible electronic patient record at the Jena University Hospital. As part of the Medical Informatics Initiative as well as of the Netzwerk Universitätsmedizin, DIC is co-funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research.
Ethics Committee
The ethics committee of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena at the Medical Faculty advises researchers on ethical and legal aspects of research projects with people or with human tissue material and personal data. The aim of the voluntary commission, which is made up of various professional groups, is to protect the study participants.
Research Co-ordination
The research coordination in the dean's office advises the UKJ scientists about funding opportunities for project ideas and supports external interested parties in finding cooperation partners at the Jena University Hospital. It develops strategies for securing and exploiting intellectual property.
Animal Welfare Unit
The animal welfare unit supports the planning and application for animal testing projects as well as the practical implementation of experiments. She advises researchers at the UKJ and the FSU on all questions relating to animal research projects.
- Homepage animal welfare unit (German)
Central Animal Facilities
Center for Clinical Studies
The Center for Clinical Studies at UKJ offers advice and support in the conception, planning, implementation, evaluation and reporting of clinical trials.
Profile Centers and Centers with third-party funding
Centre for Medical Optics and Photonics (CeMOP)
The Center for Medical Optics and Photonics is a joint profile center of the University of Jena and brings together scientists from over 30 working groups from the faculties of physics and astronomy, chemistry and earth sciences and medicine. You work with and develop state-of-the-art optical and photonic methods in both biomedical research and clinical applications.
German Center for Mental Health (DZPG)
In the Center for Intervention and Research on Adaptive and Maladaptive Brain Circuits Underlying Mental Health (C-I-R-C), researchers from Jena, Halle and Magdeburg form the Central German location of the German Center for Mental Health, coordinated by the UKJ. The C-I-R-C is funded by the BMBF. The aim of those involved is to improve health across the entire lifespan through translational studies on common psychiatric diseases.
Comprehensive Cancer Center Central Germany (CCCG)
The Central German Cancer Center brings together the university oncology centers in Jena and Leipzig. With funding from the German Cancer Society, the centers cooperat as Comprensive Cancer Center in oncology care, research and education at the highest level.
Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research (LPI)
The Leibniz Center for Photonics in Infection Research is funded by the BMBF as part of the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures. The new building is to be constructed close to the UKJ. In collaboration with the four Jena partner institutions: Leibniz-IPHT, Leibniz-HKI, FSU and UKJ, the LPI bundles competencies in photonics/optics and infection research. In the future, the LPI will be open to top researchers as well as users from industry and will accompany product developments for the diagnosis and therapy of infections right through to their application.
Jena Centre for Healthy Ageing
The Jena Center for Healthy Aging was founded as a profile center of the Jena Medical Faculty in order to focus research activities in the field of aging and age-related diseases at UKJ and to promote teaching and patient care on the subject of aging.
Center for Sepsis Control and Care (CSCC)
The Center for Sepsis and Infection Research is a profile center at the UKJ that coordinates the research focus of sepsis and infectious medicine. It emerged from the Center for Sepsis Control & Care, which was funded by the BMBF as an integrated research and treatment center for sepsis and sepsis sequelae.
Center Health Care Research
The Centre Health Care Research brings together activities in health services research at Jena Medical Faculty and promotes the interdisciplinary processing of health services-related issues.
Gerätezentren und Core Units
Biomagnetic Center
The Biomagnetic Center at the Department of Neurology analyzes electromagnetic fields generated by cerebral neurons, but also by cardiac muscle cells. One focus is on cerebral networks research by temporally high-resolution observation and by analysis of neuronal activity in the human brain.
Homepage Biomagnetic Center
Electron Microscopy Center
The Electron Microscopy Center enables all UKJ working groups to cooperate and use electron microscopy-related techniques. It supports research projects from experimental planning and sample preparation to electron microscopic examination, evaluation and publication of the data.
Central scientific workshops
The Central scientific workshops are dedicated to technical challenges in research and teaching. The services include the development of medical and scientific devices and equipment, technical support for student internships at the Institute of Physiology, a repair service for laboratory equipment and advice on technical questions.
Genome sequencing
In addition to processing cases from routine diagnostics, the sequencing unit also serves to address scientific questions. It advises working groups at the UKJ on the most suitable procedures for the respective applications, creates the sequencing libraries if necessary and carries out the actual sequencing. The evaluation of the data is also carried out in part at the Institute of Human Genetics.
Integrated Biobank Jena
The Integrated Biobank Jena at the Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Diagnostics includes project-based collections, promotes the implementation of standard workflows at the UKJ and supports prospective sample collection based on the informed broad consent of the Medical Informatics Initiative (MII).
Proteomics
At UKJ, over 20 mass spectrometers are used in clinical diagnostics and research. The devices range from quadrupole mass spectrometers for routine use to high-end Orbitrap and ion mobility quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometers. The Functional Proteomics group is building a service-oriented core unit for mass spectrometry to promote mass spectrometry-based applications outside of specialized laboratories.
Werner Kaiser Research Center (MRI research)
The MRI Research Center at Jena University Hospital has, amongst others, a 7 T MRI scanner and a 9.4 T small animal MRI scanner. To coordinate research activities at these scanners, various instruments are provided to ensure efficient, smooth and safe operation of the equipment.
Core Unit Transgenic mice
The central facility for Transgenic mice can advise on the selection of suitable strategies for the planning and implementation of new projects as well as on the selection of the necessary cell culture and the realization of pronucleus and blastocyst injections.
In addition to conventional transgenic technologies, new methods of genome editing with CRISPR/Cas are also used.
Core Facility Cytometry
The Cytometry Equipment Center at the Institute of Immunology enables centralized management of flow and mass cytometry and cell sorters available at the UKJ.
