# University Hospital Düsseldorf / CIO Düsseldorf

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## TL;DR

Düsseldorf's university hospital, a partner in the CIO cancer centre alliance and a leading site for FAPI and PSMA imaging under Frederik Giesel.

## Summary

University Hospital Düsseldorf forms, with Aachen, Bonn and Cologne, the Centrum für Integrierte Onkologie (CIO ABCD), a German Cancer Aid Oncology Center of Excellence. Its nuclear medicine department is directed by Frederik Giesel, co-inventor of FAPI PET tracers at Heidelberg, and runs theranostic programmes in prostate and neuroendocrine cancers. The hospital has a large paediatric oncology and haematology department, hepatology and liver cancer programmes, and neurosurgical oncology. Trials from the CIO network give patients access to early-phase immunotherapy and cell therapy studies.

## Fields

- Kind: Institution
- Last checked: 2026-09-09
- Also known as: Universitätsklinikum Düsseldorf; UKD; Centrum für Integrierte Onkologie Aachen Bonn Köln Düsseldorf
- City: Düsseldorf, DE
- Type: hospital
- Website: https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de

## Sources

- Homepage: https://www.uniklinik-duesseldorf.de

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Hepatocellular carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hcc/), [Neuroendocrine tumours](https://onco.cc/cancers/neuroendocrine/), [Prostate cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/prostate/)
- fronts: [Imaging](https://onco.cc/fronts/imaging/), [Radiopharmaceuticals & Theranostics](https://onco.cc/fronts/radiopharma/)
- technologies: [FAPI PET](https://onco.cc/technologies/fapi-pet/), [PSMA PET](https://onco.cc/technologies/psma-pet/), [Radioligand therapy (beta emitters)](https://onco.cc/technologies/radioligand-therapy/)
- targets: [FAP](https://onco.cc/targets/fap/), [PSMA](https://onco.cc/targets/psma/)
- drugs: [FAP-2286 (177Lu / 68Ga)](https://onco.cc/drugs/fap-2286/), [Lutetium-177 vipivotide tetraxetan](https://onco.cc/drugs/pluvicto/)
- institutions: [Heidelberg University Hospital / NCT / DKFZ](https://onco.cc/institutions/heidelberg-nct/), [Uniklinik Köln (CIO)](https://onco.cc/institutions/uniklinik-koeln/)
- people: [Frederik Giesel](https://onco.cc/people/frederik-giesel/), [Kirsten Schmieder](https://onco.cc/people/kirsten-schmieder/), [Sascha Dietrich](https://onco.cc/people/sascha-dietrich/)

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