Institute for Microbiology of the Bundeswehr

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The Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology ( InstMikroBioBw ) in Munich is the Bundeswehr's competence center in the field of medical protection against biological weapons . It represents the field of B protection in the Bundeswehr based on the current state of science and technology in research, teaching, appraisal, special diagnostics, medical clarification and verification of biological warfare deployments that are contrary to international law .

history

The institute was set up in 1966 as the microbiology laboratory group at the Bundeswehr Medical School (today: Bundeswehr Medical Academy ) in Munich. The actual Institute for Microbiology of the Bundeswehr was founded in 1984. Together with the Institute for Radiobiology of the German Armed Forces and the Institute for Pharmacology and Toxicology of the German Armed Forces , the institute became an independent service of the Central Medical Service of the German Armed Forces and the Medical Office of the German Armed Forces in August 2002 . Since 2012, all three institutes are again subordinate to the Medical Academy.

In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 , the Science Council decided to equip the Bundeswehr Institute for Microbiology into a national competence center for B-weapon defense.

The Central Diagnostics Department (ZBD) of the Institute for Microbiology of the Bundeswehr (InstMikroBioBw) was accredited in September 2012 by the German Accreditation Service ( DAkkS ) according to DIN EN ISO 15189.

Since 2009, the Medical Biodefense Conference has been organized as an international specialist conference with an accompanying industrial exhibition.

Since 2010, the institute has been the partner location of the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) together with the Technical University of Munich , the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the Helmholtz Zentrum München . In February 2013, the cooperation with the Institute for Microbiology , Immunology and Hygiene and the Institute for Virology at the Technical University of Munich began. A cooperation agreement with the University of Stuttgart-Hohenheim followed in 2016 .

According to a message from the institute, at the end of January 2020 he succeeded in isolating the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in a cell culture for the first time in Germany, making a virus strain available for further research.

tasks

  • Provision of expertise, specialized diagnostic capacity, principles, concepts, guidelines and procedures for maintaining / restoring the health of persons exposed to biological warfare agents
  • Provision of specialized, quickly deployable task forces for military B-threat situations, for the investigation of unclear outbreaks of infectious diseases, as well as for the medical verification of B-warfare agents
  • Research on epidemiology , disease management, pathomechanisms , prevention, detection and treatment of health disorders caused by biological warfare agents
  • Advising the Federal Ministry of Defense and other federal ministries on technical issues relating to bi-weapon disarmament and arms control

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wissenschaftsrat : Scientific policy statement on the Institute for Microbiology of the Bundeswehr, Munich. (PDF; 271 kB), Berlin, January 26, 2007
  2. ↑ Wissenschaftsrat ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 271 kB)
  3. ^ Institute for Microbiology of the Bundeswehr: Medical Biodefense Conference
  4. ↑ InstMikroBioBw: History
  5. ↑ News from the IMB: nCoV isolated in cell culture for the first time in Germany , accessed on February 3, 2020.

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