The University Hospital

The University Hospital Tübingen was opened in 1805 and has been a public law institution since 1998 with a Board of Directors and a Supervisory Board. According to the 2017 patient survey, 97 percent of inpatients would recommend us to others!

Infrastructure

• 17 Hospitals
• Medical Care Centres
• 13 Institutes of Indirect Health Care
• 16 Interdisciplinary Centres
• Catchment area from the conurbation Middle Neckar to Lake Constance

Function

• House of maximum care
• Center of University Medicine
• Function of a district hospital for the city and district of Tübingen

Focal points

• Tumour centre
• Perinatological Centre
• Social Pediatric Centre
• Geriatric centre
• Transplant centre for kidney, liver and pancreas transplants as well as intestinal and multivisceral transplants
• Supra-regional pain centre
• Focus on cardiology and heart surgery with pediatric heart surgery
• Focus on neurology, neurosurgery, neuroradiology with stroke unit

Neurosciences

• Excellence Cluster Centre of Intergrative Neuroscience CIN
• Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience
• Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research (HiH)
• German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE)
• SFB 1233
• FOR 1847
• FOR 2715

Infection biology

• German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF)
• SFB 766
• SFB/TR 34
• SPP 1656
• Research Training Group 1708
• Interfaculty Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine (IMIT)

Oncology, Immunology

• Southwest German Tumor Center - Comprehensive Cancer Center Tübingen-Stuttgart (CCC)
• German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research (DKTK)
• SFB/TR 156
• FO/TR 2314
• FOR 2497

Vascular Medicine/Diabetes

• German Center for Diabetes Research (DZD)
• Centre for Nutritional Medicine Tübingen - Hohenheim (ZEM)
• Clinical Research Unit 274

Medical technology

• Interuniversity Centre for Medical Technologies Stuttgart Tübingen (IZST)
• Zeiss Vision Science Lab - Werner Siemens Science Center

Didactics

• Competence Center for University Didactics in Medicine Baden-Württemberg
• Interdisciplinary Training Center DocLab
• Consistent evaluation of teaching in all degree programmes

International exchange

• International exchange (University of Queensland, Brown University, Erasmus program etc.)
• International Summer School "Comparative Medical Ethics" and Winter School "Critical Care"

Internationalized financial statements

• Bachelor's programme "Molecular Medicine", Master's programme "Molecular Medicine".
• Bachelor's degree in "Medical Technology", Master's degree in "Biomedical Technologies", Master's degree in "Medical Radiology".
• PHD course of studies Experimental Medicine
• Neuroscientific Master's Courses

Doctorate and Graduate Funding

• Graduate Training Centre with the neuroscientific master programmes: Neuro- & Behavioural Science, Cellular & Molecular Neuroscience, Neural Information Processing and a Joint PhD Program
• IZKF Doctoral College