New German Center for Child and Youth Health

The University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE) has been appointed the German Center for Child and Youth Health on March 10, 2021. Together with other research institutions, the UKE will research diseases of children and adolescents. The Heinrich Pette Institute is part of the new center.

The UKE has been selected by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) as the site coordinator of the new German Center for Child and Youth Health. In the coming months, the UKE will develop a concept for the new center together with the coordinators at the other sites in Berlin, Göttingen, Greifswald, Leipzig, Munich and Ulm. BMBF is funding the concept development with 500,000 euros. The goal of the new German Center for Child and Youth Health is to create optimal research conditions in order to better combat widespread diseases and to bring research results into practice more quickly. To this end, basic research will be linked with clinical research as well as with prevention and health care research

The UKE applied alongside 22 other sites and was selected by the BMBF as coordinator for Hamburg after a multi-stage process. The sites will now develop an overall concept for the new center in a six-month concept development phase. This will include a joint strategy for future research and collaboration as well as concrete content-related, programmatic and structural goals for the establishment of the center. The concept is to be geared toward improving diagnostics, treatment and prevention in mental illnesses and in child and adolescent health. The concept will then be reviewed by an international panel of experts.

The HPI is taking part in the German Center for Child and Youth Health with Prof. Marcus Altfeld and Dr. Madeleine Altfeld-Bunders.