Medizinische Fakultät

Universitätskliniken Inselspital

Department of Pneumology and Allergology

Inselspital Bern

The Department offers comprehensive clinical services for patients with lung diseases and respiratory disorders. It conducts experimental (primarily in cell and tissue cultures) and clinical research and strives to bridge the gap between these fields to bring new knowledge from experimental-translational research to the patients.

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Profile

  • Pathophysiology of lung inflammation and fibrosis
  • Novel treatments of lung cancer
  • Tuberculosis research in global health
  • Validation of 3D lung tissue models for inhalation of environmental particles
  • Investigating the human lung bacterial microbiome and its impact on the lung immune system
  • Exacerbations of fibrotic lung diseases
  • Biomarkers for lung fibrosis
  • Long-term effects of COVID on the lung
  • Clinical phenotype, cytokine pattern and T-cell phenotype in patients with drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS)
  • Evaluation of quantity and avidity of anti-FcεRI and anti-IgE autoantibodies in chronic spontaneous urticaria
  • Treatment response and sensitization patterns in patients with hymenoptera venom allergy

Grants

  • Bern MedTech Collaboration Grant: Electrical Impedance Tomography for the Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients with Chronic Lung Diseases (S. Guler)
  • Bern MedTech Collaboration Grant: Digital companion diagnostics of respiratory impairment & frailty for long-term oxygen therapy - a proof of concept study (S. Guler)
  • Lungenliga Schweiz (T. Geiser, A. Gazdhar)
  • Lungenliga Bern (F. Blank, PI); NRP79 (F. Blank , Co-PI)
  • Lungenliga Bern (A. Gazdhar)
  • JnJ Funding (A. Gazdhar)
  • SF Board Grant from the Medical Faculty Bern to the EV Consortium (A. Gazdhar, member)
  • BAG support COVID Lung Study (M. Funke-Chambour)
  • Swiss National Science Foundation (Weave) Investigating the pathophysiology of pulmonary arterial hypertension with organ-on-chip technology (O. Guenat)