Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology (Department)

Connective tissue diseases

All Vasculitis entities

Auto-Inflammatory Syndromes

Metabolic and Joint Disorders

Systemic Inflammatory Diseases

Differential diagnosis of rheumatic and other diseases

Innovative medical therapies

Special focuses and expertise

Systemic Sclerosis with experience in treating more than 1200 patients

ANCA-associated vasculitides: Granulomatosis with polyangiitis and microscopic polyangiitis

Eosinophilic Granulomatosis with polyangiitis

Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

Myositis and related syndromes

Interstitial lung disease and other lung manifestations (e.g. Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, PAH) of inflammatory systemic autoimmune diseases

Digital ulcer treatment

Giant cell arteritis

Low-dose IL-2 therapy in systemic lupus erythematosus

Regulatory antibodies targeting G protein-coupled receptors

Pathogenesis of granulomatosis with polyangiitis and giant cell vasculitis

Animal models for interstitial lung disease, systemic sclerosis, and PAH

Clinical studies on AAVGPA, GCA, SLE and systemic sclerosis sclerosis

National Reference Center for Systemic Sclerosis

Vasculitis Center

Local reference center for severe rheumatic diseases

Lectures in Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology

German and European Systemic Sclerosis Network and Registry (EUSTAR and DNSS center)

Center of the German Trinational Vasculitis Registry (GeVas)

Center for research on antibodies directed against G protein-coupled receptors