LVR-Klinikum Düsseldorf Hospital of the Heinrich-Heine University ...

LVR-KLINIKUM DÜsseLDORF – hOsPITaL OF The heINRIch-heINe UNIVeRsITY DÜsseLDORF
3.1.10 Research funding
A considerable number of qualified research grants (e.g.
DFG, FMER) were obtained within the current reporting
period. In the years 2001 to 2009, the total amount of 17.43
million Euro was divided among several projects; the
projects have already been reported in more detail in the
chapter dealing with the individual research laboratories and
research groups. The average funding received amounted
to 1.94 million Euro per annum (range: 1.21 to 2.94 million
Euro/p.a.). The large amount of funding can be attributed
in particular to the department’s strong participation in
medical research associations, which were funded to such
a high degree by the German Federal Ministry for Education
and Research (FMER) for the first time during this reporting
period.
The majority of the funding received by the department
came from various federal ministries, especially the
FMER, with funds also being increasingly obtained from
the German Research Association (GRA) – thanks to the
initiation and coordination of a new GRA priority programme
– as well as by participation in a range of multi-centre
clinical studies. In comparison with other psychiatric
university departments in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW),
according to the report of the NRW University Medicine
Expert Commission (2006) during the evaluation period
2002-2004 this department achieved the second-best
ratio of resources earned (and weighted according to the
type of sources) to available budgets in NRW (see Figure
27). In terms of content, the primary focus was on clinical
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Funds obtained (Euro)
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schizophrenia research, which, for many years, has been a
focus in the department and which was mainly funded by
the FMER within the reporting period. Within the context
of the co-initiated Competence Network on Schizophrenia,
which is coordinated by the department, the department
has led studies on the disease course and treatment of
persons with first-episode schizophrenia, including clinicalpsychopathological
investigations and neuropsychological
and neurophysiological investigations by means of
fMRT and evoked potentials. Furthermore, employees
of the department led several investigations relating to
quality assurance in the treatment, destigmatisation and
rehabilitation of socio-cognitive disorders. Beyond the
Competence Network on Schizophrenia, the department
participated in a number of multi-centre clinical trials
in schizophrenia, increasingly in the field of evaluating
cognitive-behavioural approaches to treatment. Other
more extensive research activities with qualified third party
funding, headed by departmental employees, related to
quality assurance projects in the treatment of depressive
disorders within the context of the Competence Network
on Depression, a multi-centre clinical trial on detoxification
treatment in alcohol dependence as well as the analysis
of the clinical, brain-functional and molecular effects of
nicotine and nicotine withdrawal within the context of the
GRA Priority Programme 1226, 1226 “Nicotine: Molecular
and physiological effects in the central nervous system”,
which was initiated and coordinated in the department.
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Budget (Euro)
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Figure 27: Comparison of third-party funds raised and available to budgetary resources of the psychiatric university hospitals in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW)
according to the report of the university medicine expert commission, 2006. The size of the circle depicted represents the quality level of the publication (i.e.
the size corresponds to the mean impact factors in 2001-2005). Since the commission of experts was unaware of the budgetary levels of the Department of
Psychiatry and Psychotherapy in Düsseldorf, the position of the circular area was corrected in the figure by the authors of this report (see arrow).
Bonn
Düsseldorf
Essen
Cologne
Münster