Symposium

Symposium: Control Engineering for Health

Braunschweig
20.11.25 - 21.11.25
Scientific
HZI Campus

This two day symposium taking place at the HZI Campus Braunschweig Süd explores how control engineering, AI, and biomedical approaches can improve precision and adaptive medicine. Hosted by Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer-Hermann and supported by CAIMed, the event aims to spark lasting collaborations and shape future flagship projects bringing closed-loop control into clinical practice.

Program

The symposium will cover adaptive treatment strategies and drug scheduling, closed-loop system identification for patient-specific modeling and control, and clinical decision support systems. It will provide a structured space for interdisciplinary discussion on the unique challenges of applying control systems in medicine by talks and interactive sessions.

Participants are invited to submit proposals for talks or ideas for interactive sessions that address clinical challenges or innovative control-based solutions in healthcare.

Further information can be found here: Interactive Session Ideas

Registration

Registration for in person and online attendance is availaible here: Register here 

Agenda

Day 1: 20.11.25

1:00 p.m. – 1:10 p.m.
Opening — (Welcome message by Michael Meyer-Hermann)

1:10 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Talk — (Dr. Doris H. Fürtinger, Renal Research Institute, Fresenius Medical Care)
Title: Model-Based Optimal Control for Personalized Anemia Management in Hemodialysis

1:45 p.m. – 2:20 p.m.
Talk — (Thao Dang, PhD, French National Center for Scientific Research CNRS & VERIMAG, Université Grenoble Alpes)
Title: Control and Monitoring of Anesthesia using Formal Methods and Machine Learning

2:20 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.
Coffee Break

2:40 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.
Talk — (Prof. Dr. Dagmar Wirth, Dpt. of Model Systems for Infection and Immunity MSYS, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research)
Title: Rewiring of cellular signaling pathways to synthetic expression cassettes for self-controlled therapeutic responses

3:15 p.m. – 3:50 p.m.
Talk — TBA

3:50 p.m. – 4:25 p.m.
Talk — (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Findeisen, Control and Cyber-physical Systems Laboratory, TU Darmstadt)
Title: Model refinement during online operation via evolving Gaussian processes

4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Interactive Session incl. Wrap-Up

7:00 p.m.
Joint Dinner with Speakers and Organizers

Day 2: 21.11.25

9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Intro, Recapitulating Interactive Session — (Michael Meyer-Hermann)

9:30 a.m. – 10:05 a.m.
Talk — (Prof. Dr. Ville Mustonen, Finnish Multidisciplinary Center of Excellence in Antimicrobial Resistance Research FIMAR Organismal and Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki and the Helsinki Institute for Information Technology, Finland)
Title: Eco-evolutionary control of cell populations

10:05 a.m. – 10:40 a.m.
Talk — (Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Ivica Grgic, Department of Internal Medicine and Nephrology, Marburg Transplant Center & Institute for AI in Medicine, Philipps University Hospital Marburg UKGM)
Title: AI and Immersive Technologies in Healthcare: Chances and Challenges

10:40 a.m. – 10:55 a.m.
Coffee Break

10:55 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Talk — (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. med. Steffen Leonhardt, Helmholtz Institute of Biomedical Engineering, RWTH Aachen University)
Title: Control of therapeutic systems interacting with pathophysiological systems

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Interactive Session

1:00 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Closing Session & Goodbye

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