Working Groups

For special areas of responsibility, the Commission has set up working groups in which individuals can also participate who are not members of the Commission but have specialist expertise in the respective areas.
 

The remit of the working group includes the question of how to improve the framework conditions for conducting clinical trials in Germany. The working group is in close collaboration with the DFG review group "Clinical Trials", whose members Prof. Dr. Andreas Neubauer, Prof. Dr. Rolf Wachter and Prof. Dr. Antonia Zapf have joined the working group.

Members of the Working Group:

  • Professor Dr. Ansgar Lohse (Chair)
  • Professorin Dr. Claudia Baldus
  • Professor Dr. Christian Etz
  • Professorin Dr. Susanne Herold
  • Professor Dr. Tobias Huber
  • Professorin Dr. Gabriele Meyer
  • Professor Dr. Andreas Neubauer
  • Professor Dr. Jörg Schulz
  • Dr. Beatrix Schwörer
  • Professorin Dr. Britta Siegmund
  • Professorin Dr. Meike Stiesch
  • Professor Dr. Rolf Wachter
  • Dr. Frank Wissing
  • Professorin Dr. Antonia Zapf

This working group deals with the evaluation of research performance in the medical field, for example in the context of individual funding in the DFG funding programs. As part of this, the working group looks into evaluation methods and review criteria that can contribute to the standardized assessment of academic careers of clinically active and non-clinically active researchers.

Members of the working group:

  • Professor Dr. Peter Henningsen (Chair)
  • Professor Dr. Tilo Biedermann
  • Professorin Dr. Anja Bosserhoff
  • Professor Dr. Christian Etz
  • Professor Dr. Tobias B. Huber
  • Professorin Dr. Eva Hummers
  • Professorin Dr. Gabriele Meyer
  • Professor Dr. Jörg Bernhard Schulz
  • Professorin Dr. Britta Siegmund
  • Professorin Dr. Meike Stiesch
  • Professor Dr. Robert Thimme
  • Dr. Frank Wissing

The working group “Clinician Scientists" is developing recommendations aimed at highlighting the importance of the already established structured career paths in the "Clinician Scientist" and "Advanced Clinician Scientist" programs for physician-scientists involved in clinical research in Germany. A key focus is on emphasizing the need to sustain these programs at medical faculties even after DFG funding has ended.

Furthermore, the group aims to identify opportunities for integrating Clinician Scientist funding into other support schemes and to outline possible individual career pathways. Taking into account current developments in academic medicine as well as the diverse disciplinary cultures within the medical field, the working group also plans to develop recommendations for quality standards in institutionalized qualification programs for Clinician Scientists.

Members of the working group:

  • Professor Dr. Robert Thimme (Chair)
  • Professorin Dr. Claudia Baldus
  • Professor Dr. Tilo Biedermann
  • Professorin Dr. Anja Bosserhoff
  • Professorin Dr. Dagmar Führer-Sakel
  • Professor Dr. Peter Henningsen
  • Professorin Dr. Susanne Herold
  • Professor Dr. Ansgar Lohse
  • Professor Dr. Jörg Bernhard Schulz
  • Professorin Dr. Britta Siegmund
  • Professorin Dr. Meike Stiesch
  • Professor Dr. Robert Thimme
  • Dr. Frank Wissing

Concluded Working Groups

Looking into the ethical and legal aspects of human genome sequencing, the working group consisted of members of the SGKF, the Senate Commission on Key Questions of Genetic Research and a review board member representing the subject area of human genetics. The working group has completed its work.

Statement

This working group addresses the question of how knowledge-generating trials involving small numbers of cases can be designed to facilitate progress in the development of innovative therapies for rare diseases and personalised medicine. The work of the “Small Numbers of Cases” Working Group was integrated in the 2018 statement “Clinical Trials”.

Among other things, this working group deals with the question of how the framework conditions for conducting clinical trials in Germany can be improved. This working group works in close coordination and sometimes in joint meetings with the Medical Committee of the German Council of Science.

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Among other things, this working group is concerned with mapping out a continuous, structured career path for researching physicians (“Clinician Scientist", “Advanced Clinician Scientist”) at all levels of continuing medical education. Current developments in university medicine are taken into account here, as are the different “cultures” of medical disciplines and changing technical, demographic and social conditions.

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The “Quality in Clinical Research” Working Group addresses the DFG’s principles and requirements with regard to assessing the quality of clinical research on a subject-specific basis. Among other things, work is focused on the development of concrete recommendations for action for the implementation of quality standards in clinical research projects and the appropriate establishment of quality standards, starting in the funding proposals themselves.

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This working group undertakes a focused treatment of the topic of translation in the context of clinical research and the medicine-related life sciences.

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