General Information

Mission Statement

The main goal of the Institute of Immunology is to strive towards a better understanding of the immune system through concentrated research and to provide knowledge to students as well as to promote professional education.

Elucidating the molecular basis of immune cell development and function is aimed at increasing insight into the principles of immune reactivity.
This will form the basis for the development of new strategies for therapeutic interventions as well as for decisive diagnostic procedures.
Among the various types of human immune cells, the phagocyte family of innate immune cells, in particular DC, and T lymphocytes, the central players of adaptive immunity, are primary targets of the research.

Disease states most thoroughly investigated by Institute members are malignancies of the haematopoietic system, infectious and chronic inflammatory processes, transplantation-related disease problems and primary immunodeficiencies.

The study of both fundamental immunological problems and issues of practical clinical relevance shall complement each other in order to unravel still existing secrets of immune homeostasis.