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12.03.2021 14:25
Göttingen selected as a partner location in the “German Center for Child and Adolescent Health DZK”. UMG coordinates.
Great success for the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG): The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has selected the UMG as the location coordinator for the new German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) in Göttingen. UMG coordinates the concept development for the DZKJ with another six locations in Berlin, Greifswald, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Ulm.
(umg) Great success for the University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG) and other partner institutions on the Göttingen Campus: The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has received the UMG with other scientific partner institutions from Göttingen from a total of 23 applications for the location for the new German Center for Children – and youth health (DZKJ) selected. The decision was made in a multi-stage competition process on the basis of recommendations from two international expert committees. Among other things, the long-term vision and the planned mission statement of the center, the scientific excellence of the concept, the innovative content of the joint research activities, the integration of basic and clinical research and the management structures were evaluated.
In addition to Göttingen, the coordinating university clinics in Berlin, Greifswald, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich and Ulm were selected as further locations for the new DZKJ. The locations are made up of universities, university clinics and non-university research institutions that work closely together regionally, across Germany and internationally.
The aim of the German Centers for Health Research, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the federal states, is to be able to combat common diseases more effectively. Two new centers have now been added to the six existing centers: the German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) and the German Center for Mental Health (DZP). The German Centers for Health Research combine basic research with clinical as well as prevention and health services research.
German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) – Göttingen site
Göttingen made it and was awarded the contract for the facility as a location in the “German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ)”. Prof. Dr. Jutta Gärtner, director of the UMG Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, is the site coordinator. The University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), the Georg August University Göttingen, the Max Planck Institutes for Biophysical Chemistry and Experimental Medicine, the German Primate Center Leibniz Institute for Primate Research and the Fraunhofer Institute for Translational Medicine and Pharmacology are involved. The new German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) is involved in internationally recognized research in the neurosciences at the Göttingen campus (SFB889, SFB1190, SFB1002, SPP2205, MBExC, SPP1738, SFB860, TRR274, SFB1286, Heart & Brain Center, DZNE).
“The selection as a partner location in the DKKJ speaks for the excellent expertise that Göttingen has acquired in the field of neuroscientific research in the field of pediatric and adolescent medicine. We have been working with our partner institutions for years with a high level of competence in basic research through to the development of new diagnostic options and therapies for children and adolescents with diseases of the brain and nervous system. Apparently this was convincing and led to success, ”says Prof. Jutta Gärtner.
“The fact that Göttingen was selected as a location for the German Center for Child and Adolescent Health after a highly competitive selection process shows that research is carried out here in the top group both nationally and internationally. For the University Medical Center Göttingen, we are extremely pleased that the Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, with its years of high-quality research in the neurosciences, will take over the coordination “, says Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Brück, spokesman for the UMG board.
Lower Saxony’s Minister for Science and Culture Björn Thümler said of the BMBF’s location decision: “The new German Center for Child and Adolescent Health at the Göttingen location will bundle the expertise even better and implement innovative treatment approaches more quickly. This is good news for all patients. With the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the German Center for Cardiovascular Research, Göttingen already has two nationally important centers for top-class medical research under the leadership of its university medicine. The renewed election confirms the outstanding charisma of Göttingen as a city of knowledge and the excellence of Lower Saxony as a research location. ”
The science location Göttingen represents the GoBrain – Center for Child Brain Health Göttingen, the Children’s CNS Center Göttingen. The human central nervous system (CNS) is a highly complex structure that is influenced by a multitude of genes, genetic control mechanisms and environmental factors. It determines all of our life functions, including our feeling, thinking and acting. Disturbances in the development or function of the CNS lead to disabilities and neurological diseases which, in addition to limitations in mental and physical development, lead to visual, hearing, speech and behavioral problems and usually manifest in childhood or adolescence. For the affected patients and their families, this represents an extreme and often lifelong burden that significantly affects their quality of life.
The central concern of the Göttingen location of the German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) is to develop prevention, diagnosis and individually adapted therapies for affected children and adolescents while at the same time taking the special needs of patients and their families into account. University and non-university institutions in Göttingen work closely together in research. The essential strength of the DZKJ at the Göttingen location results from this close network: the combination of scientific research and clinical application on the basis of bundled expertise and a high level of interdisciplinary exchange between highly specialized scientists and doctors.
German Center for Child and Adolescent Health – the locations
• Berlin, coordination: Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
• Göttingen, coordination: Göttingen University Medical Center
• Greifswald, coordination: University Medicine Greifswald
• Hamburg, coordination: University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf
• Leipzig, coordination: University of Leipzig
• Munich, coordination: Ludwig Maximilians University Munich
• Ulm, coordination: Ulm University
The selected locations for the German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) will now work out an overall concept for the new center in a six-month concept development phase. A common strategy for future research and cooperation as well as concrete content-related, programmatic and structural goals for the establishment of the center will be worked out. The concept should aim to improve diagnostics, treatment and prevention in child and youth health. The concept is then examined by an international committee of experts.
German Center for Child and Adolescent Health – Order
The new German Center for Child and Adolescent Health (DZKJ) is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The focus of the seven locations ranges from disease development to prevention, diagnosis and therapy research. In addition, there are overarching questions such as the connections between mental and physical illnesses. Across all locations, children and young people are viewed holistically in their respective phases of life. In principle, the DZKJ is to be set up like the other already existing German Centers for Health Research. Close cooperation is sought, particularly in the areas of diabetes, cancer and lung research. In addition, a joint research platform between the DZKJ and the German Center for Mental Health is to be created.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University
Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Prof. Dr. Jutta Gärtner, phone 0551 / 39-67015
[email protected]
Corporate communication, press and public relations
Stefan Weller, phone 0551 / 39-61020
[email protected]
Von-Siebold-Str. 3, 37075 Göttingen
www.umg.eu
Scientific contact:
University Medical Center Göttingen, Georg-August University
Clinic for Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Prof. Dr. Jutta Gärtner, phone 0551 / 39-67015
[email protected]
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