Center for Research on Inflammation of the Skin (CRIS)

The Center for Research on Inflammation of the Skin (CRIS) is a multidisciplinary research center focused on inflammatory skin diseases. The members of CRIS participate in 3 DFG-funded research consortia, including the Collaborative Research Center (CRC) 1526, the Research Training Group (RTG) 2633 as well as the Cluster of Excellence (EXC) "Precision Medicine in Chronic Inflammation" (PMI).
CRIS was established as successor organization of the Center for Autoimmune Blistering Diseases Research (CAIBR), which was solely dedicated to research on autoimmune blistering skin diseases.

Collaborative Research Center 1526

Research Training Group 2633

Cluster of Excellence 2167

The members of the CRIS recruit from the Department of Dermatology, the Department of Rheumatology, the Institute for Systemic Inflammation Research (ISEF), the Lübeck Institute of Experimental Dermatology (LIED), the Institute of Medical Biomedtry and Statistics, and the Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine (CCIM).

Department of Dermatology

Institute for Systemic Inflammation Research (ISEF)

Lübeck Institute for Experimental Dermatology (LIED) 

Institute of Medical Biometry and Statistics

Comprehensive Center for Inflammation Medicine (CCIM) 

Department of Rheumatology

As an institution of the University of Lübeck, CRIS closely interacts with the University Clinic of Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) merging preclinical research with clinical research, and patient care.

CRIS aims at developing new drugs for inflammatory skin diseases and to advance treatment of these diseases to the precision medicine level. The research of the CRIS is currently focused on pemphigoid diseases, ANCA-positive vasculitis, and scleroderma.