Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology

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Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS GmbH (BIPS)
Category: research Institute
Legal form of the carrier: non-profit recognized GmbH
Membership: Leibniz Association
Facility location: Bremen
Type of research: Contract research
Subjects: Health Sciences and Epidemiology
Management: Iris Pigeot
Employee: over 150
Homepage: www.bips-institut.de

The Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS GmbH (formerly: Institute for Epidemiology and Prevention Research GmbH (BIPS), Bremen Institute for Prevention Research and Social Medicine) is an independent, interdisciplinary epidemiology research institute, which is responsible for researching the causes of diseases and the prevention of diseases. In addition to working on research projects, his tasks also include the implementation of research results in practice and teaching. BIPS has been a member of the Leibniz Association since January 1, 2013 .

history

The BIPS was founded on January 1st, 1981 as a legally dependent research institute of the "Association for the Promotion of Scientific Research in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen eV" and was initially located at President-Kennedy-Platz in Bremen-Mitte . The director of the institute was the pharmacologist Eberhard Greiser, who had already made a name for himself in drug research in the 1970s.

The BIPS later moved its headquarters to the Bremen-Mitte Clinic and then to Grünenstrasse in Bremen's Neustadt district . Since April 1, 1998, the BIPS has been entrusted with the management of the registry of the epidemiological cancer registry in Bremen. In 2000, it finally moved to Linzer Straße to the Bremen Technology Park next to the University of Bremen .

In November 2003 the longstanding director of the institute, Greiser, left the company. His successor, Iris Pigeot, has headed the Statistics Department ( biometrics and IT) since 2001 and took up her position as the new director in March 2004.

On January 1, 2007, the BIPS became the central scientific institution at the University of Bremen. The BIPS has been an associated member of the Leibniz Association since the end of November 2008 . In 2010, the BIPS moved again, this time to the former building of the data center of the Bremen administration at Achterstraße 30 in the Horn-Lehe district of Bremen , which had been completely renovated for this purpose. On January 1, 2012, the institute was spun off from the university as a GmbH and renamed.

structure

The institute has five departments:

  • Biometrics and EDP
  • Epidemiological methods and root cause research
  • Prevention and evaluation
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • administration

The managing directors of the GmbH are the director Iris Pigeot and the head of administration Cornelia Wiedemeyer.

An international scientific advisory board, which currently consists of nine people, is assigned to the institute. In addition to the supervisory board, an institute council coordinates the cooperation between the departments. The partner of the GmbH is the "Association for the Promotion of Scientific Research in the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen eV"

research

The work of the BIPS ranges from the detection of risk factors in the development of diseases to the development of concepts for health promotion , their implementation in prevention and precautionary programs to the use of such programs. In addition, the BIPS is involved in the development of health science standards. In its research, BIPS is committed to the rules of good epidemiological practice. This also relates to compliance with data protection regulations and ethical requirements.

The main research areas of the BIPS are in alphabetical order:

  • Epidemiology of work-related diseases
  • Women and gender studies
  • Genetic Epidemiology and Bioinformatics
  • Health reporting
  • Clinical epidemiology
  • Cancer epidemiology (including the Bremen cancer registry)
  • Method research
  • Pharmacoepidemiology
  • Prevention and health promotion
  • Environmental epidemiology

At the beginning of November 2018, the BIPS published the result of a study with around 16,000 children, in which the connections between obesity and diabetes were examined.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Weser-Kurier from 3./4. March 1979, page 49: "Nature and Medicine": "Many medicines with defects"
  2. ↑ a b c Weser-Kurier , District Courier Northeast, Aug. 26, 2010, page 1
  3. ↑ http://www.taz.de/1/archiv/archiv/?dig=2003/12/06/a0059
  4. ↑ https://www.bips-institut.de/kontakt/personal/wissenschaftliche-mitarbeiter.html?MAid=41
  5. ↑ https://www.bips-institut.de/das-institut/organigramm.html
  6. ↑ Obesity and diabetes: early sugar imprinting will last a lifetime , Ärzte Zeitung online, November 9, 2018

Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 1 ″  N , 8 ° 51 ′ 30 ″  E