curATime is one of 14 future clusters of the "Clusters4Future" initiative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. This initiative promotes geographically concentrated partnership structures that work towards a common goal through cooperation between all relevant stakeholders. In this way, different technologies and competencies of a region are re-bundled to provide financial support for Germany's top research at an early stage, thus giving the clusters the opportunities to transform their ideas into future-oriented key technologies and applications.
A core team of experts in the fields of biomarker and thrombosis research, clinical cardiology, immunotherapy, epidemiology and machine learning has come together to establish the cluster. With their complementary expertise and access to extensive population studies (Gutenberg Health Study) and disease cohorts, the curATime core partners, consisting of TRON gGmbH, the University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in Kaiserslautern, have excellent prerequisites for achieving the ambitious cluster goals and thus the therapy for combating atherothrombosis that is targeted at the individual patient.