University of Giessen Lung Center

Scientific Profile

Scientists from different institutes and departments are actively taking part or coordinating a number of prestigious national and international networks of scientists focussing on lung diseases:

Only recently, the Excellence Cluster "Cardio-pulmonary System" (ECCPS)was elected within the excellency initiative launched by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, short BMBF) in cooperation with the University of Frankfurt and the Max-Plank-Institute (MPI) for Heart and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim.

A defining role within the scientific network on the Giessen School of Medicine plays the prestigious Collaborative Research Center 547 "Cardiopulmonary Vasculature", funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, short DFG) as the central public funding organization in Germany. Closely affiliated are three Clinical Research Groups (Klinische Forschergruppen) investigating projects related to Respiratory Insufficiency, Pneumonia, and Pathomechanisms and Therapy of Lung Fibrosis. Two junior research groups are specifically investigating the mechanisms of pulmonary fibrosis. Other important networks are the 5th EU Framework Project "Genetic Disposition for Pulmonary Hypertension", and 6th EU Framework Project "Pulmotension" , the GRID as part of the NGFN as well as the Collaborative Research Center 535 "Invasion and Replication Strategies of Pathogens". Members of the UGLC participate in extramural studies at the Max-Planck Heart and Lung Institute, Bad Nauheim, which is closely linked to the Justus-Liebig-University research facilities.