News (Oct 2025): The Institute for Biostatistics and Informatics in Medicine and Aging Research welcomes Prof. Dr. Stephanie Roll as its new professor of biostatistics.

With extensive experience in research, teaching, and interdisciplinary collaboration, Prof. Roll will expand methodological support for clinical studies at the UMR. Interdisciplinary collaboration with various clinics and close ties to the Center for Clinical Trials (Koordinierungszentrum für Klinische Studien, KKS) are important for making research projects in Rostock more efficient. Prof. Roll also wants to bring in new teaching ideas to give medical students more tools for their scientific work and for the appraisal of medical publications.

Prof. Dr. Stephanie Roll was a senior researcher in the field of biometrics and epidemiology at the Institute of Social Medicine, Epidemiology, and Health Economics at Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

News (April 2025): We received DFG funding (1 full-time researcher over 3 years), for our core topic of "In-silico evaluation of interventions for molecular health/rejuvenation, using omics data analyses by bioinformatics, and generative AI". See the Intervention Analytics for Longevity for details.

"What I can say to the people that are starting to study aging now is that I think we are on the verge of a revolution, that the science of aging is maturing and becoming a medical science, and a discipline that every doctor will have to be competent in to practice high-level medicine." Luigi Ferrucci, Jan 14, 2021, Nature Aging

The core interest of the Bioinformatics is the investigation of intervention effects using gene expression (next-generation sequencing) data.
More generally, we also investigate biomarkers based on clinical, protein, microbiome and other data. Applications are in healthtech / aging research (including fibrosis, cellular senescence and inflammation), neurodegeneration and cancer. From our bioinformatics perspective, we (co-)coordinate two clinical and one preclinical trial, all done with some focus on biomarkers. See also the sections on "Funding" and Publications".

The Bioinformatics is composed of the following groups:

• Medical Bioinformatics (Fuellen), focussed on intervention effects,
• Junior Research Group Translational Bioinformatics (Barrantes).

The mission of the Biostatistics department can be found here.

With all the best wishes for a long healthspan
Georg Fuellen, Institute Director

Please see the page "About us".

Prof. Dr. Georg Fuellen
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Ms Brauer
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Institut für Biostatistik und Informatik in Medizin und Alternsforschung (IBIMA)
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