Selected Project Links

Consortia and Institutions

• Sophia - Stratification of Obese Phenotypes to Optimize Future Obesity Therapy (EU-IMI)
• Innodia - A private public partnership against Type 1 Diabetes (EU-IMI)
• PEDA-QS - Work Group Quality Control Pediatric Endocrinology, Diabetology and Obesity Therapy (in German)

Clinical Studies

• Phase 2 and 3 studies with orphan drugs in genetic obesity
  • Setmelanotide for the Treatment of LEPR Deficiency Obesity
  • Long Term Extension Trial of Setmelanotide
  • Setmelanotide Phase 2 Treatment Trial in Patients With Rare Genetic Disorders of Obesity
• German multicenter Youth with Extreme Obesity (YES) Study
  • Identification and Characterization of Youth With Extreme Obesity (YES)
  • Economic Aspects of Extreme Obesity in Adolescent (YES)
  • Course of Obesity and Extreme Obesity in Adolescents (YES)
  • Weight Loss Surgery in Adolescents With Extreme Obesity (YES)
  • Low-level Intervention for Adolescents With Extreme Obesity (STEREO)

Clinical Guidelines

• Therapy and Prevention of Obesity in Childhood and Youth (in German)
• Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Diseases (in German)
• Endocrinologic aftercare after oncological disorders in childhood and youth (in German)

Teaching and Continuing Education

• Standard comprehensive textbook on childhood obesity (in German)

Registries and Databases

• ECLip Registry for patients with lipodystrophy
• DPV - German Diabetes Registry (in German)
• APV - World's largest obesity patient registry (in German)
• Hypo-Dok - Decentralized registration of patients with hypothyroidism (in German)
• AGS - Software for documenting patients with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (in German)

Projects

• ERC Advanced Grant Role of autonomous B cell receptor signalling and external antigen in the pathogenesis of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) (Jumaa)

Study Groups

• RECOMB - Treatment for the most common type of SCID, RAG1-SCID by performing phase 1 and phase 2 clinical trials using autologous haematopoietic stem cell‒based gene therapy (EU Horizon 2020)
• Prevalence of COVID-19 in children in Baden-Württemberg (PDF)

Clinical Guidelines

• Therapy of primary antibody deficiencies (in German)
• Newly diagnosed immune thrombocytopenia in children and adolescents (in German)
• Virus infection in patients with organ- and allogeneic stem cell transplantation: diagnostics, prevention and therapy (in German)
• Diagnosis of primary immune defects (in German)

Projects

• ERC Consolidator Grant Major depression as a metabolic disorder (MitO2Health; Kolassa)
• BMBF Consortium ENHANCE: Enhancing understanding and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder related to child maltreatment

Infrastructure and Cohorts

• Research Building Multidimensional Trauma Sciences (MTW) (in German)
• My childhood – Your childhood cohort - Stress resilience in the transgenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment

• European Rhabdoid Registry (EU-RHAB): A multinational registry for rhabdoid tumors of any anatomical site
• BLUEPRINT - A BLUEPRINT of Haematopoietic Epigenomes (EU FP7)

Institutions

• Center for Trauma Research Ulm
• Competence Center Child Abuse and Neglect (in German)
• Dazugehören e.V. - an interdisciplinary professional association to support individual participation of persons with and without handicaps (in German)

Projects

• ADOPT - Affective dysregulation: optimization of prevention and therapy
• CARE-FAM-NET - Children affected by rare disease and their families
• CCSchool - Continuum of Care School: Improving Continuity of Care for Children and Adolescents With (or in Danger of) Psychological Impairment
• CHIMPS-NET - Children of mentally ill parents
• COACH - Chronic Conditions in Adolescents (in German)
• Foster-Care - Online-intervention for adolescents living in foster families (in German)
• LQM - Online monitoring of quality of life of children with chronic diseases
• MILESTONE - Managing the Link and Strengthening Transition from Child to Adult Mental Health Care
• Onko-STEP - Web-based cognitive-behavioral disease management support program for young adult cancer survivors – a randomized controlled trial
• ProTransition - an Online-Course for Professionals to optimize the Health Care Service for Young People with Mental Illness in Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood
• STAR - Self-Injury: Treatment, Assessment, Recovery (in German)

Clinical Guidelines

• Endocrinologic aftercare after oncological disorders in childhood and youth (in German)
• Preserving fertility after oncological disorders (in German)

Teaching and Continuing Education

• Textbook on adolescent and transition psychiatry (in German)

• "Join the Healthy Boat" - School-based prevention program reaching 141,000 children
• "Ulmer SPATZ Gesundheitsstudie" - Cohort of >1.000 new-borns and their families (in German)
• For disease-specific registries and cohorts please see the topics under "Systems and Diseases" above.

Institutions

• ISRII Special Interest Group Internet-based interventions in chronic medical conditions – bridging the chasm between somatic and mental health
• Special Interest Group E-Health, German Psychological Society, Clinical Psychology Section

Online Interventions and Frameworks

• Ulm Online Clinic - Information, Consultation and Therapy for Patients and Relatives
• eSano Online Trainings - Open-source online diagnostics and intervention platform
• feelBack - Digital solution for psychooncology (in German)
• INSIGHTS - The App to track smartphone usage for your studies
• NEMO (by ZIV) - An app for monitoring side-effects of cancer treatment (in German)
• StudiCare - Health-related online trainings for students (in German)

Projects

• Overview of E-Mental-Health Projects at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
• Overview of Psychodiagnostics, Digital Phenotyping and Smart Sensing Projects at the Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy
• Overview of Knowledge Transfer, Dissemination and E-Learning Projects at the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (in German)

Projects

• Healthcare as a Public Space - Social Integration and Social Diversity in the Context of Access to Healthcare in Europe (part of the ERA-NET "HERA")

Policies

• Bonn Ethics Declaration (PDF, in German)
• Children's Rights at the Department of Pediatrics (in German)
• Points-to-Consider on the Return of Epigenetic Research Results (PDF)

Self-Help and Parent's Initiatives

• KORN e.V. - umbrella organization of local self-help initiatives with links to all initiatives (in German)

Consortia

• Boehringer Ingelheim Ulm University BioCenter (BIU)
• CRC 1074 - Experimental Models and Clinical Translation in Leukemia
• CRC 1149 - Danger Response, Disturbance Factors and Regenerative Potential after Acute Trauma
• DIFUTURE - Data Integration for Future Medicine
• NCT SüdWest - Site of the National Center for Tumor Diseases (PDF, in German)

Promotion of Young Scientists

• International Graduate School in Molecular Medicine Ulm (IGradU)
• Graduate & Professional Training Center Ulm
• Internal Funding Programs at the Medical Faculty

Infrastructures

• The Medical Faculty Core Facilities
• Center for Translational Imaging - From Molecule to Man (MoMAN)
• Center for Rare Diseases Ulm (ZSE)
• Comprehensive Cancer Center Ulm (CCCU) (in German)

Policies

• European Initiative for Exercise in Medicine - Encouraging primary care physicians and other health care providers to include physical activity when designing treatment plans
• Policy Evaluation Network - Evaluating policy measures to promote a healthy diet and physical activity of the population in terms of their content, implementation and effectiveness
• Mission Statement Gender Equality
• Statement on Reproducibility of Results in Medical and Biomedical Research (PDF)