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Frey, MD, PhD, Urs

Prof. Urs Frey, MD, PhD

Urs Frey - UKBB - Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel - Pädiatrie - Kinderheilkunde - Pediatrics - Pédiatrie - Seltene Krankheiten - Rare Diseases - Maladies Rares - Perinatal Zentrum - Perinatal Center - Centre Périnatal - Pseudocrupp - Impfungen Baby - Baby Vaccination - Vaccin Bebe

Medical Director UKBB,
Chief Physician Pediatrics,
Member of the Executive Board,
Research Group Leader

Personal data

Date of Birth	June 7, 1962
Nationality	Swiss
Marital Status	married, 2 children

Current positions

2019 - present	Chairman of the National Steering Board, Swiss Personalized Health Network
2015 - present	Individual member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Researchers
2010 - present	Medical Director, Chair of Pediatrics, University Children's Hospital, Basel
2016 - 2018	Vice President of the National Steering Board of the Swiss Personalised Health Network
2015 - 2018	Vice President Swiss PedNet

Education and training

1999	Ph.D. Bioengineering, Leicester University, Leicester, UK
1997	Specialisation - Child and Youth Medicine and Pulmonology, University of Bern, CH
1995	Specialisation - Pediatrics, University of Bern, CH
1990	MD, University of Bern, CH

Professional positions

2005 - 2010	Head of Department and Professor of Pediatric Pulmonolgy, University Hospital of Bern, CH
2001 - 2005	Consultant Pediatric Pulmonology, University Hospital of Bern, CH
1997 - 2001	SCORE Fellowship - Swiss National Society, University of Bern, CH
1994 - 1997	Fellowship - Swiss National Society, Leicester University, UK
1994	Fellowship - Swiss CF Society, Dept of Bopmedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, USA
1990 - 1993	Clinical Training - Pediatrics, University of Bern, CH
1989 - 1990	Fellowship - Swiss National Society, University of Bern, Switzerland

Research experiences and grants

2021 - 2025	Swiss National Science Foundation 320030_204717 Air Pollution and Effects on Lung Functional Development and Respiratory Morbidity in At-Risk Infants.
2018 - 2021	Swiss National Science Foundation 320030B-182871 The prospective Basel-Bern infant lung development birth cohort (BILD): Impact of air pollution on profibrotic and autophagy related mechanisms involved in the development of the respiratory system in infants.
2015 - 2018	Swiss National Science Foundation 320030-163311 The prospective Basel-Bern infant lung development birth cohort (BILD): Integrating the impact of genetic and environmental factors on trajectories of respiratory disease from birth to school age.
2012 - 2015	Swiss National Science Foundation 324730-144280 The prospective Basel-Bern infant lung development birth cohort (BILD): early impact of genetic and environmental factors on lung growth and respiratory morbidity.
2010 - 2015	Co-applicant: IMI - EU Innovative Medicine Initiative U-BIOPRED Biomarkers of severe asthma
2009 - 2011	Swiss National Science Foundation 32003B-124654 Impact of early envrionmental and genetic determinants on lung development from infancy to preschool age
2008 - 2011	Co-applicant: Swiss National Science Foundation 3200B0-122341 Breastfeeding and the risk of childhood asthma: a population-based study
2008 - 2011	Co-applicant: FP7-EU (EFRAIM Multi-Centre Consortium grant) Responsible for developmental physiology and fieldwork

Scientific or professional organisations

2015 - 2019

Member - Fleischner Society, Society for Thoracic Imaging and Diagnosis, USA

2014 - 2016

President, Division III: Biology and Medicine - Swiss National Foundation

2013 - present

Pediatric Advisory Board - Lancet Respiratory Medicine

2008 - present

Member - Swiss National Science Foundation

2006 - present

Pediatric Editor - European Respiratory Journal

1999 - 2007

ERS Scientific group secretary/chair 7.01 (Pediatric Respiratory Physiology)

1998 - 2001

ERS - ATS Joint Officer (for the Infant lung physiology task force)

Reviewer

SNF, Nature, NEJM, Lancet, PNAS, American Journal Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Thorax, European Respiratory Journal, Pediatric Pulmonology, Journal of Applied Physiology, Respiration Physiology and Neurobiology, Pediatric Research and others

Awards

2020	Guido Fanconi Prize - Swiss Society of Paediatric
2007	ERS Romain Pauwels Award - Asthma Research in Europe
2005	Swiss Research Prize - Pediatric Pulmonology, for outstanding contribution to the field
2003	Theodor-Kocher Research Prize, University of Bern
2003	Swiss Research Prize - Pediatrics (together with Prof. Wildhaber (Zürich) and Hammer (Baseo) for Research collaboration)
2001	ERS annual Award - Pediatric Respiratory Medicine in Europe
2001	Poster Research Prize - Pulmonolgy (as senior author)
1997	Swiss Research Prize - Pediatrics

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