TREATING INFLAMMATION
From the laboratory directly to the patient
Unique challenges demand special measures: Rampant inflammation of the human body, a phenomenon of civilization, is just such an extraordinary task and Germany's concerted inflammation research is the appropriate response. Especially as these efforts extend far beyond basic research. However, the focus is still on optimum patient care - with new forms of treatment and the development of innovative medicines.
It is a modern understanding of medicine: holistic and interdisciplinary. Preventive instead of reactive. Individually matched to an individual patient. This makes it a thing of the past for the same patient to be treated by a dermatologist for psoriasis only, a pulmonary consultant to alleviate only his or her asthma and a rheumatologist to care only for the inflamed joints of the selfsame patient. Ultimately all these inflammations - wherever they become apparent on the body - are based on similar or in many cases the same mechanisms.
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For the patient's good health
Because not only were the scientific competences of highly specialized molecular, structural or cell biologists concentrated in the "Inflammation Research Excellence Cluster" but also experienced medical doctors from all disciplines were brought together in a single clinic: in the "Inflammation Medicine Excellence Centre". A major outpatient clinic for inflammatory illnesses, unique in Germany up to now, has come into being at the University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein. The doctors - with their many patient contacts every day - collaborate directly with the fundamental research scientists. Equipped with the most modern technology and in a closely networked organization: the ideal preconditions not only for the optimum treatment of patients with inflammation but also to develop new anti-inflammatory therapies and medicines: the studies necessary for this, often with thousands of patients, will be carried out in the "Inflammation Medicine Excellence Centre". And there's even more: the researchers and doctors are already working promisingly on innovative active ingredients that can control the processes of inflammation in the body in an even more precisely targeted way.