A symposium hosted by the Department of Systems Immunology

November 20-21 2025
Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research Forum X 0.13
Science Campus Braunschweig Süd
Inhoffenstraße 7, 38124 Braunschweig
Germany
Organizer: Prof. Dr. Michael Meyer-Hermann

While control engineering is ubiquitous in everyday devices and has started to take a foothold in medical devices as well, its application in healthcare still has a lot of growth potential. In particular, precision and adaptive medicine offer fertile ground for applying control principles to improve treatment outcomes. This symposium explores the interface between control theory, biomedical engineering, AI, and clinical practice. We aim at establishing an international and interdisciplinary network in order to intensify the dialogue between clinical practitioners, engineers, and mathematical modellers, and to identify concrete healthcare challenges that can benefit from responsive, automated control strategies. 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, such as patient variability, physiological complexity, uncertainty, and the longitudinal and sparse nature of patient data. We aim to foster sustained collaboration between disciplines and define joint initiatives, including the potential development of a flagship project that brings closed-loop control from theory into real-world clinical application. The symposium welcomes researchers from medical research to present data or challenges they face, as well as researchers from theoretical and technical fields to present their work on potential solutions. Besides invited keynote talks, the program includes interactive workshops to identify common interests and ideas for joint projects. We invite participants to submit proposals for talks or ideas for interactive sessions that address clinical challenges or innovative control-based solutions in healthcare. A detailed agenda will be released over the coming weeks.