The Core Unit for Research Data Management enters another 3-year funding period

The Medical Faculty and the Interdisciplinary Center for Clinical Research (IZKF) continue to support the Core Unit for Research Data Management (cRDM). Lead by Prof. Katrin Heinze and Prof. Philip Tovote, the cRDM will help researchers of the Medical Faculty with all their needs around research data management. The cRDM supports data management within research networks and data-intensive projects. Its goal is to enable researchers to use data efficiently, foster collaboration, and advance scientific discoveries in this field. In doing so, the cRDM promotes the FAIR principles for scientific data management: Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, and Reusability. A key objective of the Core Unit is to develop, together with the IT departments of UKW and JMU a Virtual Research Campus (VRC)—a data management and analysis platform that integrates seamlessly into the university’s and hospital’s IT environments. The VRC is designed to enable researchers to support the full data life cycle from acquisition to primary exploitation, re-usage and storage. In the next funding period, the focus will be on expanding capacity, integrating the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Persistent Identifiers (PID), as well as further developing individual VRC components and merging them into seamlessly integrated data management platforms. In this way, cRDM lays the foundation for sustainable, networked, and transparent biomedical research—and makes a significant contribution to the digitalization, quality improvement, and long-term research strategy of the Würzburg Medical Faculty.