Technical innovation

Our close contact to patients with rheumatic diseases helps to recognize unsolved clinical needs.

Apart from experimental and clinical research we also try to forster technical innovation. In the past, Prof. Hügle has developed and patented new devices for synovial biopsy (Retroforceps) and minor salivary gland biopsy for Sjögren syndrome (Saliclick). These innovation make those interventions less invasive and quicker and thus improved patient care.