Research at the RCB

As the lung center of the Leibniz Association, the Research Center Borstel focuses on chronic inflammatory and infection-related lung diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), allergies, tuberculosis and pneumonia. The overarching goal of the interdisciplinary research activities is to elucidate the causes and mechanisms of chronic inflammatory, infectious and degenerative lung diseases in order to derive new innovative concepts for their diagnosis, prevention and treatment.

Our research at a glance:

• We conduct research on lung diseases from the molecule to the patient.
• We have 'state of the art' cell culture and animal models for lung diseases.We operate the NRC for the world's most important infectious lung disease, tuberculosis, on campus.
• We are international leaders in molecular diagnostics and resistance testing of mycobacteria and their implementation in partner laboratories in high-incidence countries.
• We are consultants for WHO, RKI and other stakeholders on tuberculosis and allergens.
• We represent tuberculosis and chronic lung diseases in the German Health Centers, DZL and DZIF.
• We are partners in two of the world's largest alliances - ERA4TB / UNITE4TB - for the development and clinical testing of new TB drugs.
• We operate one of two PID reference monitoring sites with high-resolution pollen monitoring in Germany all year round.