Study Centres of GermanNetPaeT

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 

Charité University Medicine Berlin
Department of Pediatric Oncology & Hematology 

With > 3000 hospital beds, the Charité is one of the largest and most renowned university hospitals in Europe. Clinical care, research and teaching are delivered by physicians and scientists of the highest international standard. The Department of Pediatric Oncology & Hematology is one of Europe’s largest centers for the treatment of all pediatric cancers and hematological diseases including thalassemia, sickle cell disease and bleeding disorders. 

The department is member in the European Reference Networks for pediatric cancer (ERN PaedCan) and for blood diseases (EuroBloodNet) as well as in the European ITCC network for early clinical trials in pediatric cancer. Clinical research focusses on neuroblastoma, acute lymphoblastic leukemia and pediatric brain tumors. Accordingly, the  center coordinates the phase III trial (IIT) for relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukemia (IntReALL) on the international level and the phase III trial for high-risk neuroblastoma (HR-NBL2-SIOPEN) as well as the registry for low-grade gliomas (LOGGIC) on the national level. Early clinical trials (IITs) for neuroblastoma and stem cell transplantation trial protocols for thalassemia are under development. The large portfolio of early clinical industry trials (n=20) is managed via the German network for early clinical trials in pediatric oncology & hematology (Network East: www.forschungsverbund-ost.de/). Training and education opportunities include programs for study nurses and for drug development fellows at the interface of preclinical and early clinical drug development.  

Dr. med. Anne Thorwarth: anne.thorwarth@charite.de &
Prof. Dr. med. Angelika Eggert: angelika.eggert@charite.de

Charité University Medicine, Campus Virchow Klinikum
Augustenburger Platz 1, 13353 Berlin

Phone: +49 30 450 566 132
Weblink: https://kinderonkologie.charite.de/

Universitätsklinikum der Ruhr-Universität Bochum

 

University children´s hospital Ruhr University Bochum

The Ruhr University Children’s Hospital (Director: Prof. Dr. Thomas Lücke) located at St. Josef Hospital combines all major pediatric subspecialties except for oncology under one roof including an institute of pediatric radiology and a research department of child nutrition. Due to the close connection of the various departments (for example: Neuropediatrics, Pulmonology, CF, Allergology, Pediatric Gastroenterology, Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetes, Immunology, Neonatology) with the staff of the study centre, a high quality in study realization is guaranteed. 

Pediatric research activities are ongoing in the majority of pediatric subspecialties of the Ruhr University Children’s Hospital. Our employees have many years of experience in GCP-conform clinical research. An attached laboratory enables diagnostic and functional procedures directly on site. Under these favourable conditions, national and international studies of phase I-III and observational studies are being carried out for years. In addition, studies initiated by ourselves (IITs) are performed. Special research interest lies in the fields of rare diseases, neuro-metabolics and nutrition, rare lung diseases, characterization of lung diseases and inflammation, and endocrine disorders, especially disorders of sexual development.

The CSC works closely together with the relevant ethics committee of the Ruhr-University Bochum.

Dr. Folke Brinkmann
Sandra Böger

University children´s hospital Ruhr University Bochum
Alexandrinenstrasse 5 
D-44791 Bochum
+49-234-509-2809
s.boeger@klinikum-bochum.de

https://www.klinikum-bochum.de/kinder-und-jugendmedizin/fachbereich.html

Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden

 

Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus, TU Dresden, Germany (Chairman: Prof. R. Berner)

The department of pediatrics is a tertiary care university medical center caring for a population of roughly 4 million people. We are dedicated to the care of acute and chronically ill children, in particular children with rare diseases. Our main research interest is in infection, rheumatology, autoinflammation and autoimmunity. 

In the past we have performed numerous clinical trials in the above mentioned research areas. In addition, clinical trials have been performed in neonatology, pediatric pulmonology, neuropediatrics and pediatric oncology. The CCTC is part of numerous networks in the respective fields.
One of the most outstanding ongoing clinical studies is the large European Freder1k- and POInT-Study on neonatal screening and prevention of Type-1-Diabetes.

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Berner
Director and Chairman
Department of Pediatrics
University Hospital and Medical Faculty Carl Gustav Carus
Technische Universität Dresden
Fetscherstrasse 74
01307 Dresden, Germany

Phone: +49 351 458 2508/2440
Fax: +49 351 458 2508 4384
Email: reinhard.berner@uniklinikum-dresden.de

https://www.uniklinikum-dresden.de/de/das-klinikum/kliniken-polikliniken-institute/kik

 


 

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technische Universitaet Dresden

The emphasis of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus in Dresden lies on the treatment of tic disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity as well as obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism spectrum disorders, eating disorders, trauma-related disturbances, and schizophrenia. Our research focuses on developing a better understanding of the psychopathology of and treatment options for AD/HD, OCD, TD, ASD, eating disorders and affect regulation using a range of approaches including neuroimaging and neurophysiology, genetics and immunology, neuropsychopharmacology pharmacovigilance, and clinical trials.

The close cooperation of medical staff, psychologists, nursing staff, social educators, occupational and movement therapists enables comprehensive diagnostics and targeted treatment. We develop an individually tailored therapy concept consisting of non-drug and drug therapies and procedures. The department engages itself intensively in child and adolescent psychiatric research. Within this framework, the employees of five independent research groups (Experimental Developmental Psychopathology, Cognitive Neurophysiology, Cognitive Developmental Neurobiology, Stress and Substance Dependence in Adolescence, Translational Developmental Neuroscience) design and implement various clinical studies and supervise pharmaceutical studies. Researchers and clinicians further participate in international consortia studies, for example, within the European Society for Study of Tourette Syndrome (ESSTS) or the European Network of Research on Hyperkinetic Disorders (EUNETHYDIS). For all topics, we pursue a broad, multi-method approach with the goal of a better understanding of the pathophysiological processes "from gene to behavior". We pursue the idea of translational research in order to transfer research results as quickly as possible into improvements in diagnostics and therapy.

KJP Forschungssekretariat
Uniklinikum Carl Gustav Carus Dresden 
Klinik und Poliklinik für Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie und -psychotherapie 
Fetscherstr. 74 
01307 Dresden
Germany

phone: 0049 351 458 7168
email: KJPForschung@uniklinikum-dresden.de

homepage: www.kjp-dresden.de

Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf

Universitätsklinikum Erlangen

 

Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Paediatric Clinical Study Centre

The Centre for Paediatric Clinical Studies at the Department of Paediatrics and Adolescents Medicine at the Universitätsklinikum Erlangen was established in in order to meet the increasingly complex regulatory requirements and to ensure highest quality standards for the conduct of clinical trials. Thus we have many years of experience in the conduct of paediatric clinical trials. 

The Centre for Paediatric Clinical Studies coordinates all clinical trials which are conducted in the children’s hospital.  Our highly qualified and experienced staff provides support to our principal investigators for both industry sponsored studies and IITs. These services include the planning, coordination and conduct of clinical trials, development of clinical trial protocols, regulatory activities (submission to the ethics committees and competent authorities) and contract management. Furthermore, CRF-development and query management as well as archiving (Trial Master File = TMF) and the preparation of audits and inspections. We are the primary contact point for sponsors, CROs and internal staff involved in clinical trials.
We closely cooperate with the Erlangen Center for Clinical Studies (CCS) of the University hospital which also enables us to provide pharmacovigilance and GCP trainings.
Currently we are conducting trials in pulmonology, neurology, nephrology, endocrinology and haematology as well as in neonatology and intensive care (e.g. sedation in children and acute pain therapy). 
We have sponsored various national and one multicentre, international, randomised controlled trial (CloSed) and collaborate as partner in many national and international research projects and networks (e.g. GAPP, DEEP, EPTRI and Global PPS). 

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Antje Neubert
Head of the Paediatric Clinical Study Centre

Universitätsklinikum Erlangen
Department of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine
Paediatric Clinical Study Centre
Loschgestraße 15
91054 Erlangen

paed-studienzentrale@uk-erlangen.de

Tel: +49 (0) 9131 85-36874
Fax: +49 (0) 9131 85-36873

www.kinderklinik.uk-erlangen.de
http://www.kinderklinik.uk-erlangen.de/en/research-teaching/paediatric-clinical-study-centre/

Universitätsklinikum Essen

Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt

Universitätsklinikum Freiburg

 

Medical Center – University of Freiburg, Center for Pediatrics

The Center for Pediatrics (ZKJ) in Freiburg offers comprehensive treatment concepts for all childhood diseases. In addition to proven therapies, we provide patients with access to new and innovative therapeutic approaches through appropriate clinical trials. Our institution specializes in General Pediatrics including neonatology and intensive care, Neuropediatric and Muscular Diseases in children, Congenital Heart Defects/ Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Hematology and Oncology.

Our pediatric study office supports clinical studies from initial planning through completion. Project managers and study assistants work closely with medical staff to guarantee that study participants receive the best possible medical care and logistical support. Currently, our institution is participating in approximately 50 clinical trials and 80 registries. 
Close cooperation with the Clinical Trials Unit at the University Medical Center Freiburg allows for implementation of investigator-initiated clinical trials and access to training/ continuing education in all aspects of clinical trial management. The spectrum of our services ranges from data management, monitoring and pharmacovigilance, to data analysis and publication.

Clinical trials at the ZKJ Freiburg focus on: 

  •  Diagnosis and treatment of fatty acid oxidation disorders
  • Diagnosis and treatment of growth disorders
  • Treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus
  • Risk factors for atherosclerosis
  • Antiviral therapy of chronic hepatitis C
  • Diagnosis and treatment of complications of preterm birth
  • Role of complement in chronic kidney disease
  • Treatment of juvenile idiopathic arthritis
  • Therapy of neuromuscular diseases (e.g., spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), Duchenne muscular dystrophy)
  • Therapy of epilepsy
  • Therapy of congenital or acquired heart defects and myocardial diseases
  • Diagnosis and treatment of congenital immunodeficiencies including hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH)
  • Diagnosis and therapy of myelodysplastic diseases in childhood
  • Diagnosis and treatment of bone marrow failure
  • Therapy of juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia
  • Therapy of soft tissue sarcoma
  • Therapy of vascular malformations and overgrowth syndromes

On our homepage, we provide an overview of the ongoing clinical trials that are currently running in our clinics:
https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/kinderklinik/klinische-studien.html

In our newsletter, we report regularly on new developments concerning pediatric clinical trials in Freiburg:
https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/kinderklinik/klinische-studien/newsletter1.html

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the ZKJ Study Secretariat at any time:
Email: zkj.studien@uniklinik-freiburg.de

Contact: Susanne Grüninger, Dr. Kristina Schachtrup
Phone: 0761-270-46949

Medical Contact: PD Dr. Simone Hettmer, Prof. Dr. Stephan Ehl
https://www.uniklinik-freiburg.de/kinderklinik/klinische-studien.html

Universitätsmedizin Göttingen

 

Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy
University Medical Center Goettingen

The University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) is one of the largest university hospitals in Germany with Neuroscience as priority research area delivering outstanding science, research and teaching. The Clinic of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) is equipped with 30 inpatient and 20 day clinic beds distributed in 5 units/wards plus an outpatient facility including special outpatient centers for ASD and ADHD. The department’s outpatient clinic sees about 100 new patients with ASD per year. 

The department has an expertise research on neurobiology and neuropsychology of ASD, ADHD and Systems Neuroscience associated child psychiatric disorders with the focus on neurodevelopmental disorders.  We are especially interested in exploring the early precursors of neurodevelopmental disorders and their developmental trajectories.  The research unit of the clinic is equipped with an electrophysiological laboratory, an eye tracking system and a baby lab.  Current projects are a BMBF-funded multicenter trial on Oxytocin enhancement of a group-based social skills training in adolescents with ASD (ASD-net), an EU-funded study on epidemiology in ASD (ASDEU) and various studies on neurofeedback and neurophysiology in ASD, ADHD and related disorders. 

Prof. Dr. med. Luise Poustka
University Medical Center
Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry/Psychotherapy
Head and Chair
von-Siebold-Str. 5
D - 37075 Göttingen
Germany

phone.:+49 (0)551/3966727
fax: +49 (0)551/398120
email: Luise.Poustka@med.uni-goettingen.de

http://www.kjp.med.uni-goettingen.de/

Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf

 

University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University Children´s Medical Clinic

The University Children´s Medical Clinic at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf is a highly specialized center for the in- and outpatient care of children and adolescents, focused on complex and rare diseases.

With dedicated multidisciplinary teams, highly personalized care as well as research and scientific expertise can be offered, to provide best possible standards of care as well as innovative new strategies and clinical trials in the field of neuroscience (with a main focus on childhood dementia), metabolic diseases (lysosomal diseases), immunology and infectious diseases as well as patient care research. 

Our main clinical research areas are degenerative brain diseases with a focus on childhood dementia NCL, inherited lysosomal and metabolic diseases with a focus on MPS disorders, immunology and infection. With highly specialized clinics for gastroenterology and nephrology (including liver and kidney transplant section), pneumology and rheumatology as well as a large metabolic basic research laboratory section and the affiliated metabolic and neonatal screening laboratory, there is high focus on translational bench to bedside research. Discovering disease mechanisms in inherited metabolic disorders as well as mechanisms of fetal programming and autoinflammation in diseases at the interface between metabolics and immunology with genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and complexomics are our expertise.

Paediatric clinical trials in rare diseases of the brain (including international PI lead on Phase I/II trials) as well as gene therapy trials are conducted and supervised in close cooperation with the clinical trial center CTC North which offers full service in conducting sponsored clinical trials as well as IITs. We also offer experience with successful audits from FDA and EMA as well as scientific support in applying to national authorities (PEI and BfArM).

Close cooperation with patient organisations and foundations for clinical research in NCL and MPS, international research cooperations, lead and management of the international DEM-CHILD patient registry for childhood dementia NCL, Project BatCure (EU Horizon 2020 funded), Project NCL2TREAT (BMBF funded), with our International Center for Lysosomal Diseases (ICLD) part of MetabERN.

Prof. Dr. Ania C. Muntau
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Children´s Medical Clinic
Martinistraße 52
Building Ost 45
20246 Hamburg

Phone: +49 (0)40 7410-56133
Fax: +49 (0)40 7410-55107
muntau@uke.de
www.uke.de
www.kinder-uke.de

Miriam Nickel
University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf

Children´s Medical Clinic
Martinistraße 52
Building Ost 45
20246 Hamburg

Phone: +49 (0)40 7410-20440
Fax: +49 (0)40 7410-40326
m.nickel@uke.de
www.uke.de
www.kinder-uke.de

https://www.uke.de/kliniken-institute/kliniken/kinder-und-jugendmedizin/index.html
https://www.uke.de/kliniken-institute/zentren/das-kinder-uke/index.html

Hannoversche Kinderheilanstalt

 

Foundation Hannoversche Kinderheilanstalt (HKA)
Kinder- und Jugendkrankenhaus AUF DER BULT
Diabetes Centre for Children and Adolescents, Hannover, Germany
Lead: Prof. Dr. Thomas Danne

The Foundation Hannoversche Kinderheilanstalt (HKA) was founded in 1863 by wealthy Hannover citizens. The HKA has a prominent position amongst the non-governmental institutions for the support and care of sick, underprivileged and handicapped children in Germany. Nowadays it is the responsible body of the only Children´s and Adolescents Hospital in Hannover, the Kinder- und Jugendkrankenhaus AUF DER BULT, as well as other institutions for the care of children and adolescents in the Federal State of Lower Saxony. 

Of international reputation is the Diabetes Centre for Children and Adolescents at the Kinder-und Jugendkrankenhaus AUF DER BULT. Taking care of ca 700 children with diabetes mellitus it is the largest paediatric diabetes centre in Germany and is one of the first 12 certified “Centre of Reference for Pediatric Diabetes” in Europe.
The multidisciplinary team of the Diabetes Centre for Children and Adolescents provides very specialized in- and outpatient care for children and adolescents with type 1 and type 2 diabetes and has a high level of diabetes specific expertise in teaching and training activities for patients and their families. In addition the centre is involved in numerous single- and multicentre clinical studies and has long experience in the coordination of serious national and international projects, like the NIH and EU founded TRIGR study and the IMI founded INNODIA – project (Translational approaches to disease modifying therapy of type 1 diabetes: An innovative approach towards understanding and arresting Type 1 diabetes, https://www.innodia.eu) as well as the EU – founded SWEET-Project (Better control in Paediatric and adolescent diabetes: working to create Centres of Reference). Since 2011, SWEET e.V. is the legal entity that continues and monitors the process of establishing Centres of Reference (CoR) for Paediatric Diabetes (https://www.sweet-project.org). 

Lead: Prof. Dr. Thomas Danne 
Diabetes Centre for Children and Adolescents 
Janusz – Korczak – Allee 12
30173 Hannover, Germany

phone: +49 511 8115 3331
eMail: danne@hka.de

https://www.auf-der-bult.de

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover

Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg

Universitätsklinikum Leipzig

Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel

Universitätsklinikum Köln

Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit Mannheim

 

Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit (ZI)
Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH)

The Central Institute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, Germany is an independent public foundation of the State of Baden-Württemberg associated with the University of Heidelberg and is one of Europe’s premier research institutions dedicated to mental health. It is dedicated to research in psychiatry, addiction medicine, psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy, neuroscience, clinical psychology, medical sociology and epidemiology. The Institute has been a Collaborating Centre for Research and Training in Mental Health with the WHO since 1980. 

The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (CAP), headed by Prof. Tobias Banaschewski, MD, PhD, at the (CIMH), specializes in psychiatric treatment and research in neuropsychiatric disorders (e.g., ADHD, Conduct Disorders, Tourette Syndrome and Autism). Research on efficacy and safety of medication treatment for psychiatric disorders in youths is a main focus of the department’s research agenda. 

Prof. Dr. Dr. Tobias Banaschewski
Qualifications: MD, PhD, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, PhD Psychology, Medical Director of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Deputy Director of the Central Institute of Mental Health

Dr. Alexander Häge 
Qualifications: MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist, Senior physician in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Head of research group Paediatric Psychopharmacology

Tobias Banaschewski is an expert in the neurobiology and neuropsychology of ADHD and associated child psychiatric disorders. He has been the principle investigator and/or work package leader in several research projects and clinical trials. TB is Chair of the European Network of Research on Hyperkinetic Disorders and member of the European ADHD Guidelines Group, the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology, the ECNP Network ADHD across the Lifespan, the ECNP Child & Adolescent Neuropsychopharmacology Network, the Directory Board of the German ADHD network and the Advisory Board of ADHD Europe. TB was awarded the Kramer-Pollnow-Award for research on ADHD in 2003 and the August-Homburger Award in 2014. He is former President of the German Society of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy (DGKJP) and DGKJP representative for supervision of CAP guideline development.

Alexander Häge is an expert in pediatric psychopharmacology. He has been investigator, principle investigator and work-package leader in several projects including clinical trials on psychopharmacology in ADHD, MDD, OCD, CD and autism. His Research Group was recently awarded the German AGNP price for research on psychopharmacology.

Dr. Alexander Häge, MD
Central Institute of Mental Health
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy
Square J5, 68159 Mannheim (Germany)
Phone: +49 (0) 621/1703-4522 (secr.)
Email: alexander.haege@zi-mannheim.de

http://www.zi-mannheim.de

Klinikum der Universität München

 

Klinikum der Universiät München / Interdisziplinäres pädiatrisches Studiencenter (Hauner iPSC)

Research is a global task - the scientific activities at the Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital make the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) part of a network featuring numerous clinical and scientific centres worldwide. The multifaceted clinical research activities are coordinated by the interdisciplinary paediatric study centre (Hauner iPSC) and the researchers of the various subdivisions and working groups are supported in their research activities by specialized personnel. The Hauner iPSC established a clinic-wide quality assurance system for clinical studies and thus enables clinical trials to be conducted in accordance with the requirements of the German Medicines Act (AMG) and the Medical Devices Act (MPG) in accordance with Good Clinical Practice (GCP) for all working groups of the Children's Hospital.

The Dr. von Hauner Children’s Hospital is part of the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich (LMU) and our physicians and scientists demonstrate unwavering commitment and the highest level of enthusiasm for the continuous advancement of paediatric medicine. The research activities at the hospital are wide-ranging and encompass all questions relating to health and illness in the early stages of human development.  
A main aim of paediatric research is to discover new and effective treatment possibilities and make them available for children in particular for those with chronic, complex, and rare diseases. To push ahead our efforts, Physicians and researchers at the Dr. von Hauner Chidren’s Hospital are part of numerous national and international research networks and are involed in pioneering projects for research into diseases and treatments. The hospital is involved in three out of six of the national health centres funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF):
-    The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)
-    The German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)
-    The German Centre for Lung Research (DZL)

In 2018, the Dr. von Hauner's Children's Hospital recorded 209 ongoing clinical trials.  
Actually the Dr. von Hauner's Children's Hospital is leading one IIT, the “HCQ in pediatric ILD particularly 4surfdefect” Study, and a new study is due to start shortly (TRACE - Transfer of multivirius-specific T-cells following transplantation).
Our research focuses on rare diseases, on systems biology, and cell and genetic function.


Research co-operations and network memberships
The Hauner Children's Hospital houses the office of the 11 networks for rare diseases funded by the BMBF (ERA-NET E-Rare) as well as the central coordination of the German Network for Primary Immunodeficiency Diseases (German PID-NET) and the coordination unit for monogenic immunodeficiency of the European Reference Network European Network on Rare Primary Immunodeficiency, AuToinflammatory and Autoimmune diseases (ERN/RITA). 
Furthermore, the Hauner Children's Hospital is also a member of: 
- EPTRI
- KIONET
- Research4Rare
- IBD-Porto of ESPGHAN
- VEOIBD

Annina Herrmann
Hauner iPSC - interdisciplinary Paediatric Study Center
Department of Pediatrics 
Dr. von Hauner Children`s Hospital
University Hospital, LMU Munich
Lindwurmstrasse 4, 80337 München


Tel:  +49 (0) 89 / 4400 – 57423 
Fax: +49 (0) 89 / 4400 – 57418
E-Mail: Annina.Herrmann@med.uni-muenchen.de

www.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de

www.klinikum.uni-muenchen.de/Kinderklinik-und-Kinderpoliklinik-im-Dr-von-Haunerschen-Kinderspital/de/index.html

Universitätsklinikum Münster

 

University Hospital Muenster
Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 
Department of General Pediatrics

We treat children and adolescents of all ages at the Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine of the University Hospital Muenster. The doctors of the Children's Hospital are involved in various research projects covering basic research to clinical research. This close connection between basic research and patient care (bench to bedside) enables individual and innovative treatments at the highest medical level as well as continuous improvement of therapies.  

The Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine has its research focus on rare diseases. The rarity of diseases complicates adequate patient care and clinical research. We face this challenge as a university institution with special ambition in our own "Centre for Rare Diseases" (CSE Münster, ZSE Duo), within several European Reference Networks for Rare Diseases (ERN-LUNG, ERKNet, MetabERN, Endo-ERN, ERN RITA) and the GermanNeonatalNetwork. We coordinate rare disease registries such as the ERN PCD Registry (www.pcdregistry.eu) for Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) and the NEOCYST Registry (register.neocyst.de) on Early Onset Cystic Kidney Diseases, and we participate in additional registries such as the German Registry for Cystic Fibrosis Muko.web (www.muko.info).
Research areas cover especially ciliopathies, pneumology, neonatology, nephrology, congenital metabolic disorders, neurology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, immunology, and psychosomatics. We continuously conduct clinical studies in those fields. Particularly in the field of ciliopathies and congenital metabolic diseases, we also work on the development of new therapeutic approaches.

Our clinic promotes close cooperation with patients and parents on a national and international level. Members of the clinic were founding members of "Kartagener Syndrom und Primäre Ciliäre Dyskinesie e.V." (www.kartagener-syndrom.org), US PCD Foundation (pcdfoundation.org) and NEPHTHI – N (www.nephthi-n.de). We are also tightly linked to overarching patient/parent organisations such as EURORDIS (www.eurordis.org), the voice of Rare Disease Patients in Europe.

We have dedicated curricula and structured career programs for clinician scientists and medical scientists to give doctors and scientists both the knowledge and the time to conduct clinical studies in our clinic. We continously train research staff in internal and external courses following national and international guidelines to ensure Good Clinical Practice (GCP). 

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heymut Omran
University Hospital Muenster
Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 
Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, building A1 
48149 Muenster
+49251-8347732
heymut.omran@ukmuenster.de

Dr. rer. nat. Petra Pennekamp
University Hospital Muenster
Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 
Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, building A1 
48149 Muenster
+49251-8340004
petra.pennekamp@ukmuenster.de

Simone Helms
University Hospital Muenster
Clinic for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine 
Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, building A1 
48149 Muenster
+49251-8348358
simone.helms@ukmuenster.de


www.ukm.de/index.php?id=paed_uebersicht
pcd.uni-muenster.de
www.neocyst.de/de/
www.metabolic-disease.com
cdg.uni-muenster.de
www.pcdregistry.eu
www.muko.info
www.kartagener-syndrom.org
pcdfoundation.org
www.nephthi-n.de
www.eurordis.org
ern-lung.eu
www.erknet.org
metab.ern-net.eu
rita.ern-net.eu
endo-ern.eu
 

Universitätsmedizin Rostock

Universitätsklinikum Tübingen

 

Center for Pediatric Clinical Studies (CPCS)

As a DIN-ISO 9001:2015 certified academic full service CRO the CPCS seeks to improve pediatric research methods and practice by promoting clinical studies of high methodological quality. Due to its cross-linking to the University Children’s Hospital the CPCS also provides clinical investigators and study assistants in all fields of pediatrics.

The CPCS is a branch of the University Children’s Hospital Tübingen, but the work, expertise and experience of its members are not confined to the University Hospital Tübingen but are also available for other hospitals, institutions and organizations. The CPCS aims to improve the design, management, execution and evaluation of pediatric clinical studies, and in doing so, the CPCS takes all pediatric fields and age groups into consideration.
The CPCS supports clinical trial design, the writing of study protocols and grant applications, and authority as well as ethics committee submissions, and provides study assistance, clinical investigators, monitoring, data management, data bases, statistical analyses and reporting.


Steering Committee:
Dr. C. Engel
Prof. Dr. A. Franz
Prof. Dr. R. Hangretiniger (komm.)

CPCS Secretary
Maike Rein
Frondsbergstraße 23
72070 Tübingen
phone.: +49 7071 29-81469
fax: +49 7071 29-4857
E-Mail: CPCS@med.uni-tuebingen.de
https://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/kinderklinik/de/abteilungen/cpcs/

Universitätsklinikum Würzburg