Prof. Dr. med. Roland von Känel

Area of Research

Description of Research Interest

Our research activities are focused on 1) the psychobiological (i.e. neurobiological, neuroendocrine, immune, and autonomic nervous system) pathways linking stress and behavior with the development and manifestation of somatic diseases; including atherothrombotic cardiovascular diseases, venous thromboembolism, inflammatory diseases and sleep disorders; 2) the epidemiology, diagnosis, mechanistic models, and treatment of functional somatic symptoms/syndromes and somatic symptom disorders; 3) innovative treatments of patients with comorbid somatic and psychiatric illnesses.

Special Expertise

Stress, biology of stress and stress-related diseases (incl. burnout)
Psychoneuroendocrinology and -immunology
Psychocardiology (incl. psychosocial risk factors and biomarkers for cardiovascular diseases)
Somatic symptom disorders and functional somatic symptoms and syndromes
Normal sleep and sleep disturbance

Shareable Platforms, Services, Equipment & Infrastructure

Psychophysiologcal lab for the recording of stress reactivity measures

Member of Collaborative/interdisciplinary Research Consortia

Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study (SIBDCS)
Cohort Lausanne (CoLaus|PsyCoLaus)