
Prof. Dr. med.
Sven Schulzke, MSc, FRACP
Position(s)
Chief Physician Neonatology
Deputy Medical Director & Head of Research UKBB
Institution
University Children's Hospital Basel
Phone +41 61 704 12 12
Research Group Sven Schulzke
Research Focus
Critical Care & Respiratory Medicine
Area of Research
Neonatal research, especially methodological and physiological studies on neonatal lung function in premature birth. Diagnosis and therapy of chronic lung diseases. Clinical studies and meta-analyzes in newborns
Approved Research Projects
- THOMI-HOPF Foundation Paediatric Clinical Research at UKBB – fostering early career advancement of young academic paediatricians in Northwestern Switzerland (competitive grant)
- Swiss National Science Foundation, Predictive value of heart rate variability on cardiorespiratory events of preterm infants routinely immunised in the hospital
- Special Program Paediatric Research, UKBB, Heart rate variability of preterm infants prior to and after stopping of respiratory support
- Kommission für Technologie und Innovation KTI, Forced-oscillation technique for improving lung function and respiratory care in preterm infants
- European Respiratory Society, Forced oscillation technique to measure breath-by-breath lung function in preterm neonates
Collaborations
National Collaborations
- Paediatric pulmonology research group of Urs Frey, UKBB
- All SwissNeonet Level III neonatal intensive care units in Switzerland (Aarau, Berne, Chur, Geneva, Lausanne, Lucerne, St Gallen, Zurich) (clinical trials, SwissNeoNet projects).
- Prof Philipp Latzin, Division of Paediatric Pulmonology, Inselspital and University of Berne (lung development projects)
- Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz (biomedical engineering)
- Prof Olivier Baud, University of Geneva (lung development)
International Collaborations
- Prof Bela Suki, University of Boston, MA (advanced mathematical time-series analyses)
- Prof Raffele Dellaca, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (lung function/lung development/biomedical engineering)
- Dr Kerstin Jost, Karolinska Institutet Stockholm, Sweden (biomedical engineering)
- Dr Sotiris Fouzas, Patras University, Greece (lung function/lung development)
- Prof Jane Pillow, University of Western Australia (lung function/lung development)
Ongoing Research Projects
- Predictive value of heart rate variability on cardiorespiratory events of preterm infants routinely immunised in the hospital
- Air Pollution and Effects on Lung Functional Development and Respiratory Morbidity in At-Risk Infants (PI: Urs Frey)
- Paediatric Clinical Research at UKBB – fostering early career advancement of young academic paediatricians in Northwestern Switzerland (THOMI HOPF Foundation grant)
- Prospective observational study on an individualized PEEP optimization strategy in neonates on respiratory support
- ALBINO: Multi-centre clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of allopurinol in term neonates
- ROPROP study :Multi-centre clinical trial to assess the efficacy and safety of oral propranolol for prevention of threshold retinopathy of prematurity