Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel

The Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (Kiel University, CAU), founded 1665, uses research, teaching and the transfer of science to address the great challenges of our time in health, environmental and cultural change, nutrition and energy. The Faculty of Medicine is committed to medical and dental research and education. It particularly focuses on digital medicine and handling medical datasets. The pre-clinical and clinical-theoretical institutes are located on the CAU campuses, whereas the clinical departments can be found at the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) on its main campus in Kiel. The UKSH also consists a second major university hospital which is associated with the University of Lübeck. Both university hospitals are run as one entity making the UKSH one of the largest university medical centres in Europe with over 13.500 employees. 

Departments involved with the STOPSTORM consortium are the departments of Radiation Oncology, of Internal Medicine III (cardiology) and of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine on the UKSH campus in Kiel. The Department of Radiation Oncology in Kiel employs experienced radiation oncologists and is equipped with the latest state-of-the-art radiation therapy systems for conventional radiotherapy, brachy-therapy and stereotactic radiotherapy. It also harbours an inpatient unit for combined radiation-oncologic treatments. The Department of Internal Medicine III (cardiology, angiology and intensive care) in Kiel has a dedicated electrophysiology unit equipped with the latest state-of-the-art catheter laboratory with high resolution epi- and endocardial mapping and ablation systems. The department has a cardiology intensity care unit fully equipped to handle patients with VT.