Welcome to the IFS website

The Institut für anwendungsorientierte Forschung und klinische Studien (IFS) is an academie clinical trial service provider acting in accordance with international ICH-GCP quality standards. The IFS serves as point of contact for all matters relating to clinical research.

The IFS

  • provides the administrative and organizational infrastructure needed by pharmaceutical companies and investigators to conduct clinical trials.
  • enables efficient contract research.
  • provides expert assistance to investigators of the Universitätsmedizin Göttingen (UMG) seeking to design and conduct investigator-initiated trials (IITs)
  • supports investigators and medical personnel to lighten their workload.
  • is deeply committed to support result-oriented research.

Competent guidance and support from the start

Designing and conducting such trials involves considerable administrative and organizational effort. This is where our services come into play: With its expertise and management structure, the IFS covers all areas of clinical research management and acts in accordance with internationally recognized ICH-GCP quality standards.

Modern structures - efficient research

The IFS is located at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. Staffed with highly professional, specialized, and service-minded personnel, the company's mission is to network and coordinate among investigators, research-based pharmaceutical companies, authorities, and public sponsors. Serving both as site management organization(SMO) and as-contract research organization (CRO), the IFS supports university's resident researchers as well as external partners in their efforts to develop and realize pharmaceutical projects.