What we offer


Personalized Health Data Services

SIS supports the biomedical and personalized health research community of the ETH Domain and at national level as part of the BioMedIT network, with secure data and IT solutions for sensitive research data.

Sensitive data requires special cybersecurity measures to protect the Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability of data and to protect the Privacy of individuals. Sensitive data usually classifies as: strictly confidential or confidential. An example of sensitive research data is biomedical patient data (pseudonymized or identified).


Leonhard Med Secure Scientific IT Platform

We offer the Leonhard Med Platform as a service to customers (shareholders). The expert services focus on specialized solutions for secure handling of sensitive research data (strictly confidential and confidential data) and covers the full research data life cycle, supporting the steps from data collection to eventual archival. With Leonhard Med, we provide:

  • Secure tenants as complete environments for data transfer, storage, management, and analysis

  • Expert Research Data Management and IT solution engineering support

  • Expert consultancy on secure services for strictly confidential and confidential data

  • Gateway to the national secure BioMedIT network services

Added value: secure & customizable to fit various specific research use cases.

Leonhard Med is suitable for sensitive data from any research area (medicine, social and political sciences, economics, environmental sciences etc.). Specialized use cases (e.g. not related to research) may be supported and are subject to specific rules.

Leonhard Med service info:

Leonhard Med Service Level Agreement and Leonhard Med infopoint for shareholders and prospective customers


Leonhard Med highlight features

  • Security as service: compliance with Swiss and ETH regulations; compatible with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

  • FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) data and computing environment for sensitive data (strictly confidential and confidential data)

  • Customizable research platform that can be tailored to specific research needs;  you bring in your use case and we support you in enabling it at Leonhard Med with either standard or non-standard service support (see also Leonhard Med infopoint for shareholders and prospective customers)

  • Collaborative research environment for ETH internal and external users


Compliance and Regulation

Leonhard Med is secure by design and compliant with Swiss and ETH regulations for data protection. LeoMed has a very high level of protection, suitable for sensitive data (strictly confidential and confidential data).

The following Leonhard Med Official Policies apply:

The Leonhard Med AUP is in line with the Directive on Information Security at ETH Zurich. At national level, the Swiss Laws and Policies for Data Protection apply.


National and regional collaborations

We actively coordinate and align with the:

  • BioMedIT network (BioMedIT)
  • digital Trial Intervention Platform (dTIP)
  • the LOOP Zurich (LOOP)
  • Swiss Personalized Health Network (SPHN) 
  • Personalized Health and Related Technologies (PHRT)
  • Swiss Data Science Center (SDSC)


SPHN - The BioMedIT Network: A Secure IT Platform for Research with Sensitive Human Data

Leonhard Med in the ETHZ inside|out newsletter, 19th issue, July 2019

ETHZ Blog Leonhard Med: Secure Scientific Platform for Confidential Data


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Contact

  • E-mail
  • Service owner: Anna Wiegand (ID)