At the 27 institutes and 25 clinical centers of the university hospital Jena, the scientists and physicians work both in the fields of fundamental biomedical research and in patient-related clinical research. Therein two foci of research have grown. Concentrating on this profile but also covering the broad range of clinical research, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Clinical Research is a proven instrument for promoting young researchers and internal initial funding of research groups.

In 2009, scientist at the school of medicine raised an amount of 18.7 Mio Euro of Third-party funds for research projects. They published 676 articles in refereed journals with total impact of 2343. For a complete review of research at the Jena Univerity Hospital see our research report (german).

Outstanding Publications:

• J. Kusch, C. Biskup, S. Thon, E. Schulz, et al. (2010) Interdependence of Receptor Activation and Ligand Binding in HCN2 Pacemaker Channels. Neuron, doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2010.05.022

• Ernst T, Chase AJ, Score J, et al. (2010) Inactivating mutations of the histone methyltransferase gene EZH2 in myeloid disorders. Nature Genet. published online

• Burchert A, Müller MC, Kostrewa P, et al. (2010) Sustained Molecular Response With Interferon Alfa Maintenance After Induction Therapy With Imatinib Plus Interferon Alfa in Patients With Chronic Myeloid Leukemia. J Clin Oncol published online