Luregn Schlapbach

Luregn is a Professor of Pediatric Intensive Care at the University of Zurich, and Head of the Department of Intensive Care and Neonatology at the University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. He is leading an active research program on Sepsis, Infection, and Inflammation in Switzerland.

He is closely collaborating with the the Child Health Research Centre, University of Queensland, Australia, where he worked for a decade as a pediatric intensivist. He is the Past Chair of the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Paediatric Study Group.

Luregn`s research has focused on sepsis and life-threatening infections in critically ill neonates and children, including aspects such as epidemiology, sepsis markers, outcomes, and genomics in this highly vulnerable patient group. He is interested in improving our understanding of why some children become critically unwell because of infections, and in developing better approaches to allow early recognition and targeted treatment of sepsis and severe infections in children. He has been leading observational, genomic, and interventional studies in the field, is involved in international consortia on life-threatening childhood infections, and serves on the leadership group of the Swiss Sepsis Program.

Luregn is an internationally recognized expert in sepsis and other life-threatening infectious and inflammatory conditions, as evidenced by his work in the Pediatric Surviving Sepsis Campaign, Co-Chairmanship of the international Paediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce, and the European Sepsis Alliance Steering Committee.