Research institute for lung diseases and tuberculosis
The Research Institute for Lung Diseases and Tuberculosis (FLT), known as the Tuberculosis Research Institute Berlin-Buch until 1963 and the Research Institute for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases until the beginning of the 1970s , was a non-university research institute with a clinic located in Berlin-Buch .
It emerged from the tuberculosis department of the Hufeland Hospital, also located in Berlin-Buch, and was founded on July 1, 1952. The first director of the institute was Paul Steinbrück until 1979 . In the German Democratic Republic (GDR), the FLT acted as the lead institute for the treatment and research of lung diseases and tuberculosis and was directly subordinate to the Ministry of Health . Research focussed on, among other things, acute and chronic respiratory diseases, chronic lung diseases and the investigation of new therapeutic approaches such as bronchospasmolytics .
After the political change in the GDR and German reunification , the clinic part of the institute became a specialist hospital for pulmonary medicine and thoracic surgery, which was sponsored by the Diakonisches Werk Berlin-Brandenburg from 1992 and was extensively renovated and modernized by 2000. Since June 2002 the Berlin- based association for the establishment of Protestant hospitals (since 2009 under the name Paul Gerhardt Diakonie , since 2019 Johannesstift Diakonie ) has been the sponsor of the hospital, which has been called the Evangelical Lung Clinic Berlin since 2006 .
literature
- Research institute for lung diseases and tuberculosis. In: Research in the GDR: Institutes of the Academy of Sciences, universities and colleges, industry. Publishing house Dr. Josef Raabe, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-88-649156-0 , p. 183.