Rare Blood Disorders and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Brigitte Strahm
Rare Disease Genetics
Miriam Schmidts
Metabolism and Cofactor Enzymology
Luciana Hannibal
Pediatric epilepsy
Kerstin Alexandra Klotz and Julia Jacobs
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Primary Immunodeficiencies
Carsten Speckmann
Improving treatment in glycogen storage diseases and fatty acid oxidation defects
Sarah Grünert
EPIdiagnosis and EPItherapy of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
Christian Flotho
Pediatric Sarcomas
Simone Hettmer
Understanding Vascular Anomalies
Friedrich Kapp
Fatty acid oxidation disorders: risk stratification, disease modifiers and metabolic networks
Ute Spiekerkötter
Hilda Biobank Freiburg
Hilda Biobank
CRC/TRR 359 Perinatal Development of Immune Cell Topology (PILOT)
Philipp Henneke
Clinical Trials and Registries
Study Office
Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis
Miriam Erlacher
MetaboCF
MetaboCF
Inherited and acquired disorders of primary and secondary hemostasis
Barbara Zieger
Improving Intensive Care Outcomes
Hans Fuchs
Cellular Innate Immunity
Philipp Henneke
Human T cell Immunodeficiencies
Stephan Ehl
Neuromuscular Diseases in Children and Adolescents
Astrid Pechmann
Environmental Pathogens in Extreme Prematurity
Daniel Klotz
Pediatric Endocrinology
Karl Otfried Schwab
Pediatric Healthcare Research
Thorsten Langer
Inborn errors of metabolism with a renal phenotype
Anke Schumann
Research is central to the work of the Freiburg Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Our research strengths represent a wide spectrum of pediatric research. Our basic and translational research stimulates new understandings of disease mechanisms and inspires new approaches to treatment. Through our clinical research we test novel therapies which have been specifically adapted or newly developed to suit the needs of children and young people. And our healthcare research drives improvements that enable delivery of better care for children and their families in a complex and changing environment.
On the Research pages of this site, our leading researchers showcase their work. For more information about the Freiburg Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, please visit our pages on the website of the Freiburg University Medical Center.
About the Freiburg Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Over €4.5 million
In 2018, the Freiburg Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine received over €4.5 million in external funding and grants.
Four Collaborative Research Centers
The Freiburg Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine coordinates one and participates in three further DFG-funded Collaborative Research Centers (SFBs):
- SFB 1160 "IMPATH: Immune-mediated pathology as a consequence of impaired immune reactions" (Speaker: Stephan Ehl, Pediatric Immunology)
- SFB 992 "Medical Epigenetics"
- SFB 1140 "KIDGEM: Kidney Disease – from genes to mechanisms"
- SFB/TRR167 "NeuroMac: Development, function and potential of myeloid cells in the central nervous system"
Six European Reference Networks
In association with the Freiburg Center for Rare Diseases, we are involved in six of the European Reference Networks for Rare Diseases:
- ERN-BOND for rare bone diseases
- EURO-NMD for rare neuromuscular diseases
- MetabERN for rare hereditary metabolic disorders
- PaedCan-ERN for pediatric cancer/hemato-oncology
- ERN-RITA for rare immunodeficiency, autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases
- VASCERN for rare multisystemic vascular diseases.
200 publications
In 2020, our researchers were authors on over 200 scientific publications.
120 clinical trials & registry studies
In 2018, the Freiburg Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine enrolled participants in over 120 clinical trials and register studies via our Study Office.
Research centers & networks
Researchers from the Freiburg Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine play a key role in many regional, national and international research centers and graduate colleges, including:
- the German Cancer Research Center (DKTK) and the Comprehensive Cancer Center Freiburg (CCCF)
- the Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency (CCI)
- the PRIMAL Consortium ("Priming Immunity at the Beginning of Life")
- the iMACnet project ("Genetically corrected iPSC-derived macrophages (i-MAC) for innovative gene therapeutic strategies")
- the Spemann Graduate School of Biology and Medicine
Recent News
DFG funding for a new Collaborative Research Center (TRR 359 PILOT)
A new transregional Collaborative Research Center (TRR 359) on the topic of Perinatal Development of Immune Cell Topology ("PILOT"), led by Philipp Henneke, has been awarded funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG). PILOT [...]
New Corona-Kinderstudie paper
A new paper from the Corona-Kinderstudie has recently been published in the journal EBioMedicine. The study investigated Long COVID symptoms in exposed and infected children, adolescents and their parents one year after SARS-CoV-2 infection. The [...]
Prizes for two early career researchers
Two early career researchers from Philipp Henneke's group have been awarded prizes from the German Society for Immunology. Dr. Anne Kathrin Lößlein was one of two post-docs to receive the Werner Müller Prize for [...]