Chair of Paediatrics and Medical Director, University Children’s Hospital in Basel, Switzerland

Chair of Paediatrics and Medical Director at the University Children’s Hospital in Basel, Switzerland, Prof Frey is a long-established researcher in paediatric pulmonology, particularly in the field of asthma and developmental physiology. After completing his MD in Paediatrics at the University of Bern, he conducted postgraduate study in the US and the UK, including a PhD in biomedical engineering at the University of Leicester. Prof Frey has a long track record of high-quality, peer-reviewed publications. He leads a birth cohort study investigating genetic and environmental influences on infant lung development and is also interested in the mathematical modelling of complex airway disease. He has expertise in developmental lung physiology, and experience in statistics and epidemiology of birth cohorts. In the last decade he has been largely involved in data-driven medicine, involving multi-omics data analysis, and computational methods allowing prediction modelling, clustering and phenotyping. In particular, he has worked in the field of paediatric asthma and participated in international consortia such as U-BIOPRED, PASTURE and BIOAIR. As chair of paediatrics in Basel, he is regularly involved in graduate and postgraduate teaching and supervision of MD-PhDs. With regards to his contribution to national research organisations, he was member of the SNF research board from 2014 to 2016, and has been a member of the SAMW and chair of the national steering board of the Swiss Personalized Health Network since 2018. Prof Frey is the recipient of several research grants and awards, including the Guido Fanconi Memorial Prize and ERS Romain Pauwels Asthma Research Fund award. He is also an ERS Fellow.


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