THE INFLAMMATION RESEARCH EXCELLENCE CLUSTER
Exclusive expertise
The scientists in the "Inflammation Research Excellence Cluster" have set international standards: by identifying disease genes for chronic illnesses, decoding difficult immune system interactions and building one of Europe's biggest biological data bases - and they are putting their fundamental research knowledge into practice in innovative therapies for patients.
In 2007 the German Federal Government and the German Research Foundation declared inflammation research to be a scientific priority in Germany. They chose the Schleswig-Holstein "Inflammation Research Network" as the national "Excellence Cluster". By 2012, 40 million Euros will be invested in the prospect of a new kind of inflammation medicine, in an internationally unique research strategy: interpreting the dramatically increasing occurrence of inflammation in the human body as a disease picture.
From fundamental research to patient care
The organ-fixated, segregated treatment of individual inflammation symptoms by the respective consultant physician that was usual up to now is being replaced by the interdisciplinary understanding of asthma, neurodermatitis, Crohn's disease or multiple sclerosis - it is being changed to "Systemic Inflammation". This, the very latest scientific knowledge, is also benefiting patients immediately - in the "Inflammation Medicine Excellence Center", an inflammation clinic unique up to the present, newly founded by the "Excellence Cluster".
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The "Excellence Cluster" brings together the competences of around 150 highly specialized researchers and medical experts. The scientists use an infrastructure that is outstandingly good on an international comparison, provided by the Universities of Kiel and Lübeck, the Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Research Center for Medicine and Biosciences, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Plön.