Department of Rheumatology and Immunology

Inselspital Bern

The Department covers the entire field of rheumatology, immunology, allergy, and vaccinology. This includes the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of inflammatory and non-inflammatory diseases of the musculoskeletal system, systemic autoimmune diseases, autoinflammatory syndromes, unclear systemic inflammatory diseases, immunodeficiencies, ageing, and neurodegenerative diseases.

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Profile

  • Participating in University and University Hospital Teaching programs for students of human medicine, biomedicine and biology; master students of biology are also coming from foreign Universities
  • Four basic research groups and 5 clinically and/or translationally oriented research groups
  • Clinical research focuses on pregnancy in rheumatic diseases, arthritis, musculoskeletal rheumatology and pain as well as vasculitis, osteoimmunology, Sjögren’s disease, systemic autoimmune disease-related ILD
  • Basic research focuses on understanding of immune regulation and the development of potential new biomarkers and therapies for infectious, inflammatory and fibrotic diseases

External Partners

In Rheumatology

SCQM; EUSTAR; Euromyositis; EULAR; ESR; Swiss Sjögren’s Disease Registry; ERS CRC PROFILE.net; Prof. M. Kreuter, Universitätsklinik Mainz; Prof. I. Lundberg, Karolinska Institute; Dr. A. M. Hoffmann-Vold, University Hospital Oslo; Prof. V. V., ETHZ; PD Dr. M. Behe, PSI; Prof. C. Ospelt, and Prof. O. Distler, University Hospital Zurich; Dr. Alexandre Dumusc, Lausanne University Hospital; Dr. Polona Žigon, University Medical Centre Ljubljana; Prof. H. Schiller, Helmholtz Center Munich, Prof. Stijn Verleden, University of Antwerp; Prof. Wim Wuyts/Prof. Laurens de Sadeleer, KU Leuven; Prof. Mareike Lehmann, University of Marburg;  Prof. Phil Hansbro/Dr. Alen Faiz, Centenary Institute, University of Technology Sydney; Dr. Laurent Boyer, IMRB Paris; Prof. Danny Jonigk, TU Aachen; Prof. Antje Prasse, University Hospital Basel; Prof. Lavinia Neubert, Hannover Medical School

In Immunology

The Jenner Institute, University of Oxford; Allergy Therapeutics (UK); BRSC (Latvia); Anhui Agricultural University (China); BaseImmune (UK); DeepVax GmbH; Saiba AG; Saiba Animal Health AG; Botanischer Garten Zürich; Eidg. Forschungsanstalt für Wald, Schnee und Landschaft WSL; Dermatologische Klinik USZ, Prof. Thomas Kündig; Prof. Rolf M. Zinkernagel; Prof. Manfred Kopf und Prof. Annette Oxenius, ETH Zürich; Ontario Cancer Institute, Prof. Pamela Ohashi; Stanford University, (USA) Prof. Theodore Jardetzky; The Hospital for Sick Children (Canada), Prof. Thomas Eiwegger; ATANIS Biotech AG; Excellergy, Inc. (USA); Labor Spiez, Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz (BABS)

Grants

  • SNSF project grant to Prof. Martin Bachmann & Dr. Paul Engeroff (CHF 1.2 Mio / 4 years) – Bachmann Lab
  • SNSF project grant to Prof. Alexander Eggel (CHF 796,244 / 4 years) – Eggel Lab
  • SNSF Spark grant to Dr. Paul Engeroff (CHF 99,965 / 1 year) – Bachmann Lab
  • SNSF Ambizione grant to Dr. Federica Conedera (CHF 966,030 / 4 years) – Bachmann Lab
  • DeepVax project to Prof. Mona Mohsen (CHF 200,000 / 2 years) – Bachmann Lab
  • FOREUM grant to Dr. Janine Gote-Schniering (€ 200,000 / 3 years) – Gote-Schniering Lab
  • Paul Klee Research Award to Dr. Janine Gote-Schniering (€ 20,000 / 1 year) - Gote-Schniering Lab