Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen
Fachbereich 11 - Medizin
Institute for Lung Health (ILH)
Address
Aulweg 130
35392 Gießen
Deutschland
GERiT
This institution in GERiT
35392 Gießen
Projects
Research Grants
Current projects
Defining the mesenchymal niche in airway epithelial regeneration
(Applicant
El Agha, Ph.D., Elie
)
The role of mesenchymal cells in developmental alveologenesis and alveolar repair during lung regeneration
(Applicant
El Agha, Ph.D., Elie
)
Collaborative Research Centres
Current projects
Biobank of human right ventricular tissue, lung and blood specimens from CTEPH patients
(Project Heads
Dorfmüller, Peter
;
Liebetrau, Christoph
;
Mayer, Eckhard
;
Wiedenroth, Christoph
;
Yogeswaran, Athiththan
)
Inflammatory lung microenvironment in lung cancer-associated pulmonary hypertension
(Project Heads
Ghofrani, Hossein Ardeschir
;
Grimminger, Friedrich
;
Schermuly, Ralph
;
Weiß, Astrid
)
iNOS- and NoxO1-based redox signaling in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) associated PH – pathomechanisms and therapeutic exploitation
(Project Heads
Gredic, Ph.D., Marija
;
Weißmann, Norbert
)
Origin and fate of vascular myofibroblasts and smooth muscle cells during pulmonary vascular remodeling and reverse remodeling
(Project Heads
Bellusci, Saverio
;
El Agha, Ph.D., Elie
;
Hadzic, Stefan
)
Phenotyping of pulmonary hypertension and cor pulmonale
(Project Head
Kojonazarov, Baktybek
)
Completed projects
Central resource facility for virus genomics and host transcriptomics
(Project Heads
Chakraborty, Trinad
;
Hain, Torsten
;
Wilhelm, Jochen
)
Clinical Research Units
Completed projects
Core Unit - Genome signatures and integrated systems biology of pathogen-host interaction
(Applicants
Goesmann, Alexander
;
Hain, Torsten
;
Looso, Mario
;
Wilhelm, Jochen
)
Harnessing FGF-10 signaling to protect ER-stress alveolar epithelial cells against viral infection - impact on regenereration versus fibrosis
(Applicants
Bellusci, Saverio
;
El Agha, Ph.D., Elie
;
Günther, Andreas
)
KFO 309: Virus-induced Lung Injury: Pathobiology and Novel Therapeutic Strategies
(Spokesperson
Seeger, Werner
)
Research Units
Current projects
Deciphering Immune Cell Function in the Testis and Epididymis by Single-Cell Transcriptomics, Spatial Proteomics and Integrative Bioinformatics (Central Project Z1 of the FOR 5644 ‘INFINITE’)
(Applicants
Bartkuhn, Marek
;
Schlitzer, Andreas
;
Wilhelm, Jochen
)
FOR 5644: The role of immune cells in the function of the normal and diseased testis and epididymis (‘INFINITE’)
(Spokesperson
Meinhardt, Andreas
)
