Head PD Dr. Nikolaus Netzer

The Hermann Buhl Institute for Hypoxia and Sleep Medicine Research, www.hermann-Buhl-hypoxie.org, was founded as a research institute by the Paracelsus Medical University in 2006. Its main facility, the Ghersburgklinik, www.ghersburgklinik.de, has been located in Bad Aibling since the summer of 2008. The Institute has the world's largest hypoxia lab (150m ²) including 3 chambers in which altitudes of up to 6,000 m can be simulated through the supply of nitrogen. In addition, the Institute has had a sleep laboratory since 1991 which is equipped with six beds (including four regular polysomnography beds in Bad Reichenhall), a high-altitude sleep laboratory which researches hypoxia in Bad Aibling, and a bed for geriatric sleep medicine in the Ghersburgklinik. The Institute pursues externally funded research in the following areas: high-altitude medicine, acute mountain sickness, hypoxia training in competitive sports, exercise-induced asthma, therapeutic uses of hypoxia in various diseases as well as in  preventive medicine, the influence of arterial hypoxaemia on pharmaceutical kinetics and the effects of hypoxaemia in various cells of the human body on a molecular biological level.

The Institute is led by PD.(Doz.) Dr. Nicholas Netzer. The team comprises of four physicians, a molecular biologist, a sports scientist, healthcare staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and administrative staff.