Research Center Borstel

Center for Medicine and Biosciences

Dedicated to

• Clinical Research
• Medical Care
• Training

Focus Pneumologyology

• Infection Biology
• Allergology
• Inflammation

Clinical Research & Pneumology
Infection Biology

 Respiratory infections such as
 

• tuberculosis
• nosocomial pneumonia
  - pathomechanisms
  - pathomechanisms
  - diagnosis and therapy

Inflammatory diseases such as

• sepsis
• sarcoidosis
  - genetic, structural and functional identification of pathogenicity factors
  - host defense mechanisms - therapy and prevention

Funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Ministry for Education and Technologies (BMBF)

- Collaborative Research Centers - Research Training Group - Priority Program - TB or not TB

- German Genome Project (NGFN) - Pathogenomik Plus

- Cluster of excellence: Inflammation at interfaces

- Member of Leibniz association Leibniz Network for Infectious Diseases North-German Network for Infectious Diseases

International

- 6/7th European Framework Program

- TB NET

National Reference Center for Mycobacteria

Supranational and European Reference Center for Susceptiblity Testing

Activities

- Diagnostics
- Epidemiology
- Development, improvement, evaluation
- Consultation service
- Training

Cooperations

- Task Force on Communicable Disease Control of the Baltic Countries
- European Union
- Medecins sans Frontieres
- World Health Organisation (WHO)
- German Genome Network
- German Network for Epidemiology of TB