Projekte und Kooperationen

Auswahl laufende Projekte  /  Selection of Current Research Projects

Newborn Research Zurich (NRZ)

• Newborn Research Zurich (NRZ)
• SwissNeoNet – Swiss National Registry of High-risk Newborns to Perform Research, Neurodevelopmental Monitoring and Quality Improvement.
• TREOCAPA
• OSCIFLOW – Effect of High Frequency Oscillatory High Flow Nasal Cannula on Desaturations and Bradycardia in Preterm Infants
• SUNSET – Surfactant nebulization for the early aeration of the preterm lung – Principal Investigator
• ROPROP – Oral Propranolol for prevention of threshold retinopathy of prematurity
• EpoRepair – Erythropoietin for the repair of cerebral injury in very preterm infants
• ALBINO – Effect of ALlopurinol in addition to hypothermia for hypoxic ischemic Brain Injury on Neurocognitive Outcome.Informations-Flyer für Eltern
• The ALBINO Parent Study: Parental Satisfaction, Needs and Preferences for Consent Procedure in Emergency Clinical Trials for Critically Ill Newborns
• General Movements Assessments from birth to 3 months and neurodevelopmental outcome up to the age of 2 years in infants < 30 weeks of gestation
• PLASM – Placental surveillance of the fetal metabolism
• Perinatal Palliative Care Services and Needs of Health Care Professionals Working in Swiss Perinatal Centres – A Nationwide Survey
• NIPA – The impact of neonatal health and prematurity on their parents’ health
• Longitudinal, process, and outcome analyses of the Swiss Asphyxia and Cooling Register (2011-2018) – a national quality improvement project
• BrainDNIU, Impact of intrauterine growth restriction brain development and consequences for later neurodevelopmental outcome: a prospective cohort study.
• Creative Music Therapy to promote brain structure, function, and neurobehavioral outcomes in preterm infants: a randmized controlled pilot trial
• NEuroSIS (FP7 EU) The Neonatal European Study of Inhaled Steroids is a randomized placebo-controlled international multicentre clinical trial.

Forschungslaboratorium für Biomedizinische Optik / Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory (BORL)

• Beyond individual brain activity: Assessing inter-personal brain coupling using functional near-infrared imaging (fNIRI) hyperscanning (Swiss National Science Foundation)
• Non-invasive high resolution near-infrared imaging of the neonatal brain based on time-resolved single photon detector arrays (NCCBI)
• Tumour oxygenation measured quantitatively and non-invasively by near-infrared optical tomography (cancer research)
• A new instrument to accurately measure the oxygenation of the gut to prevent shock in critically ill preterm patients. (Innovation Promotion Agency (KTI/CTI)
• OxyPrem, Translating a novel oximeter to clinical use
• Non-invasive glucose measurement in preterms