Researchers at the Department of Internal Medicine 3 are actively involved in various collaborative research programs. In local, nationwide and international research networks, scientists and their research are closely interconnected with the aim to promote new insights into current scientific questions.

The collabortive research projects at the Department of Internal Medicine 3 are funded by the German Research Foundation (CRC 1181, PP 1468 Immunobone), the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF - METARTHROS, BMBF - NeuroImpa, BMBF Innovation Fund VERO), the European Union (FP7-Health Euro Team, FP7-Prefer) and the Initiative „Innovative Pharmaceuticals“ (IMI BT-Cure, IMI RT-Cure):