The young.hope Research Centre in Salzburg conducts research into metabolic diseases as well as nutritional and developmental disorders in children.

Our research centre is part of the University Hospital Salzburg and Paracelsus Medical University.

Based at the University Hospital Salzburg, the young.hope Research Centre for Paediatric and Adolescent Medicine is ideally structured to enable physicians from different disciplines, paediatric subspecialists, geneticists as well as natural scientists to work closely together.

This allows us to keep our immediate focus on patient care.

It is not easy to remain hopeful when one’s own child gets sick and the cause of disease is unclear. Unfortunately, a lot of time can pass from the moment when the first symptoms occur until the moment when a therapy is initiated. In our daily work, we experience that research is essential to finding the right diagnosis faster and providing children with an individually tailored therapy.

Some children have even managed to fully make up for the developmental shortcomings caused by their illness. Even in the case of rare or previously undetected diseases, we have succeeded in finding therapies that allow those affected to resume a normal life.