Principal Investigators

Participating Institutions

The CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security (CISPA) in Saarbrücken is one of the world’s leading research institutions in information security and privacy, with a dedicated focus on addressing the grand research challenges in security and privacy in a comprehensive and holistic manner, in particular the intersection of security and privacy with AI/machine learning. It strives for cutting-edge, often disruptive foundational research, augmented with innovative application-oriented research, corresponding technology transfer and societal outreach. Medical security and privacy, as well as foundational research in AI/machine learning have been topics of central importance for CISPA ever since its inauguration.

The German Research Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE) is dedicated to neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and frontotemporal dementia (FTD), in all their facets. To cover this diversity, the DZNE pursues an interdisciplinary research strategy that comprises four interconnected areas: Fundamental research, clinical research, health care research, and population research. In line with this agenda, DZNE experts cooperate across sites and disciplines to promote translation of research findings into practical application. Efficient and trustworthy processing of large datasets containing sensitive biomedical information is crucial to the core of DZNE’s research, and the HMSP was initially inaugurated by a bilateral endeavor between DZNE and CISPA.