Institute for Infection Medicine (Riems)
| Institute for Infection Medicine | |
|---|---|
| Category: | Federal Research Institute |
| Carrier: | Friedrich Loeffler Institute |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Higher federal authority |
| Seat of the wearer: | Greifswald , Riems Island |
| Facility location: | Riems Island |
| Type of research: | Departmental research |
| Subjects: | Natural sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Veterinary medicine , infectious diseases |
| Basic funding: | Federal Government ( BMELV ) |
| Management: | Volker Kaden |
| Homepage: | www.fli.bund.de |
The Institute for Infection Medicine (IMED) is a research facility of the Federal Republic of Germany, which is part of the legally independent higher federal authority Friedrich Loeffler Institute (FLI) on the island of Riems . The FLI also bears the additional designation “Federal Research Institute for Animal Health”. The institute primarily conducts departmental research for the Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection . The research tasks of IMED are in the field of veterinary medicine and infectious diseases .
history
The institute is one of four research facilities on the island of Riems, the history of which goes back to the virologist Friedrich Loeffler (1852–1915) and in 1910. The institute was re-established in its current form in 1992.
research
The institute conducts applied research on the etiology and pathogenesis of viral, bacterial and multifactorial diseases in animals with the aim of developing immunoprophylactic measures and developing control strategies .
Of current importance are studies of classical swine fever in wild and domestic pigs, the immunopathology of retroviral infections in cattle, for Immunology fish culture as well as in cooperation with other institutes of the FLI studies on molecular diagnostics and comparative pathology of classical avian influenza and Newcastle disease , to Pathogenesis of rabbit disease , the neuropathology of animal herpes viruses and the pathogenesis and immunoprophylaxis of foot-and-mouth disease .
The institute operates a cell bank that develops and characterizes relevant cell lines for veterinary research and diagnostics and makes them available for the FLI and other national and international institutions.
When mosquito Atlas for mapping the incidence of mosquitoes , the institute cooperates with the Leibniz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research .
The laboratory animal facility at the Riems site is also located in the institute.
Reference laboratories
The National Reference Laboratories perform extensive sovereign tasks in the sense of monitoring and improving the diagnosis of notifiable animal diseases , notifiable animal diseases and zoonoses .
The national reference laboratories for fish diseases and for mussel diseases are located in the institute.
Other official tasks include a. Participation in the diagnosis of viral and bacterial infectious diseases as well as advice to authorities and associations in the context of the control and diagnosis of infectious diseases in animals.
See also
- Working group of departmental research institutions
- Animal Disease Act
- Overview of notifiable animal diseases
- World Organization for Animal Health
- Annual Animal Health Report