Justus-Liebig-University Giessen The Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI)

Within The Excellence Cluster Cardio-Pulmonary Institute (CPI) researchers from the universities of Giessen and Frankfurt and of the Max-Planck Institute (MPI) for Heart- and Lung Research in Bad Nauheim have joined forces.

The CPI consists of basic, clinical and translationally-oriented researchers and experts, which joined forces to understand cardio-pulmonary diseases and to find new treatments. They already made groundbreaking contributions to cardiopulmonary science and the development of novel treatments. The Excellence Cluster was established in 2019 and will receive ~ 45 million euro funding by the DFG over the next 7 years.

The Cluster aims at translational research. Our interdisciplinary team allows us to study mechanisms of cardio-pulmonary diseases in model systems ranging from cell culture experiments to animal models and to combine these results with clinical data.

Importantly, we are well equipped to carry out translational studies validating our basic research results in patients in the clinical setting. Moreover, physician-scientists of the CPI are intensely involved in clinical studies at every stage to evaluate novel therapeutics and therapies.