Inherited and acquired disorders of primary and secondary hemostasis
Barbara Zieger
Rare Disease Genetics
Miriam Schmidts
Human T cell Immunodeficiencies
Stephan Ehl
EPIdiagnosis and EPItherapy of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
Christian Flotho
Pediatric Endocrinology
Karl Otfried Schwab
Cellular Innate Immunity
Philipp Henneke
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation in Primary Immunodeficiencies
Carsten Speckmann
Rare Blood Disorders and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
Brigitte Strahm
Inborn errors of metabolism with a renal phenotype
Anke Schumann
Fatty acid oxidation disorders: risk stratification, disease modifiers and metabolic networks
Ute Spiekerkötter
Pediatric Healthcare Research
Thorsten Langer
Hilda Biobank Freiburg
Hilda Biobank
Adaptive Immunity
Oktay Kirak
Understanding Vascular Anomalies
Friedrich Kapp
Hematopoiesis and Leukemogenesis
Miriam Erlacher
Pediatric Sarcomas
Simone Hettmer
Improving treatment in glycogen storage diseases and fatty acid oxidation defects
Sarah Grünert
Improving Intensive Care Outcomes
Hans Fuchs
MetaboCF
MetaboCF
Neuromuscular Diseases in Children and Adolescents
Astrid Pechmann
Metabolism and Cofactor Enzymology
Luciana Hannibal
Clinical Trials and Registries
Study Office
Pediatric epilepsy
Kerstin Alexandra Klotz and Julia Jacobs
Epigenetic Regulation of Stem cells and Cancer
Manching Ku
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
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 [...]
German Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases Prize for Dr. Florens Lohrmann
Florens Lohrmann, from Philipp Henneke's research group, has been awarded a prize at the 48th meeting of the German Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases for his talk entitled "Skin infections uncover division of labour in [...]
Advanced Clinician-Scientist Fellowship for Dr. Roland Elling
Roland Elling has been selected as one of the Faculty of Medicine's new cohort of Berta-Ottenstein Advanced Clinician Scientists, starting 1 January 2022. The aim of the Berta-Ottenstein-Programme is to provide research-active clinicians with optimal [...]