Our Collaborators

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    Felix Ratjen

    Felix is the Division Chief of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine at The Hospital for Sick Children, Professor of Paediatrics at The University of Toronto, Program Head and Senior Scientist at the Research Institute in the Translational Medicine research program. He is co-leading the CF Centre at SickKids. Felix’s main research interest is in cystic fibrosis lung disease including new therapeutic strategies to target the underlying defect, treatment of airway infections such as first infection with Pseudomonas aeruginosa, airway inflammation and other important aspects of the disease. 

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    Harm Tiddens

    Harm Tiddens is a Professor in pediatric pulmonology at the ErasmusMC-Sophia Children’s Hospital and at the department of radiology. He is heading the research of the Sophia Cystic Fibrosis (CF)-center and of the ErasmusMC Lung Imaging Group (ELIG) focusing on the development of novel structure and function outcome measures and computational model systems to study chronic lung diseases. In 1997 he co-founded the European CF Society Clinical Trial Network (ECFS-CTN) that currently includes participation of over 17.500 CF patients and 43 CF centers.

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    Jochen Mainz

    Jochen is the head of the CF Centre and a Professor for Paediatric Pulmonology at Brandenburg Medical School (MHB), University, Germany. His research interests concern abdominal and sinonasal involvement in CF. With his team, he developed the CFAbd-Score, a validated CF-specific PROM for quantification of the multi-organic gastrointestinal symptoms.

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    Anna M. Georgiopoulos

    Anna is a child & adolescent, adult, and consultation-liaison psychiatrist affiliated with the Massachusetts General Hospital CF Center in Boston and is Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Anna leads studies in CF mental health and palliative care. She is inaugural chair of Prioritizing Research In Mental Health (PRIME) for the CF Foundation.