Petra Huppi

Function: Professeure ordinaire

Group name: Child Development Disorders

Group type: Main

Affiliations: Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Department of Paediatrics

Keywords: brain development, brain injury, cerebral ischemia, intra-uterine growth restriction

Research activities

Our research includes clinical and fundamental neurosciences projects with the aim to use and develop neuro-imaging techniques for the study of normal and altered brain development in high-risk neonate and in animal models of brain injury.

Clinical: we use advanced MRI techniques and neuro-developmental assessment to look at the effects of intra-uterine growth restriction on structural and functional development of the brain.

Fundamental: In order to understand the alteration of brain development seen in high-risk infants, we have developed translational research of brain development compromise such as intra-uterine growth restriction or foetal exposition to adverse conditions and acute hypoxic-ischemic and inflammation brain injury in the newborn rat pup. Advanced magnetic resonance imaging and mechanistic evaluation technics are used to describe injury, healing and repair. These experimental paradigms allow us to study mechanisms of damage and repair in the developing brain.

Latest publications

Very Preterm Infants Auditory Event-Related Potentials at Term Have Low Predictive Value for Cognitive Outcome.

Hövel HT , Partanen E , Hansen Pupp I , Ley D , Hüppi PS , Rosén I , Månsson J , Huotilainen M , Fellman V

Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) - Apr 2025

Exploring the Long-Lasting Effect of Mindfulness-Based Intervention in Very Preterm Adolescents on Executive and Socio-Emotional Competencies.

Siffredi V , Liverani MC , Fernandez NB , Hüppi PS , Borradori Tolsa C , Ha-Vinh Leuchter R

Child: care, health and development - Mar 2025

Longitudinal functional brain connectivity maturation in premature newborn infants: Modulatory influence of early music enrichment.

Van Der Veek A , Loukas S , Lordier L , de Almeida JS , Filippa M , Lazeyras F , Van De Ville D , Hüppi PS

Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) - Nov 2024

European training requirements in Neonatology 2021-towards a unified training standard for Neonatologists.

Roehr CC , Wellmann S , Szczapa T , Fentsch P , Hüppi P , Baud O , Alarcon A , de Boode WP , Hall M , Danhaive O , Vento M ,

Pediatric research - Jan 2025

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Contact

Département de pédiatrie
HUG
Email: Petra.Huppi@hcuge.ch
Stephane.Sizonenko@unige.ch (médecin adjoint du service)