Project Details
Projekt Print View

SFB 421:  Protective and Pathological Effects of Antigen Processing

Subject Area Medicine
Term from 1999 to 2008
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 5482883
 
The collaborative centre 421 focuses on the study of the results of immune reactions on infectious agents. It is a matter of complex molecular processes - a better understanding of these may result in new therapeutic possibilities. To this end, the molecular and biochemical fundamentals of classic and non-classic MCI-class I- antigen presentation, of gene regulation as a result of viral infections are being researched as well as cell differentiations as a protection against pathogenic processes.It is the long-term goal of this study to develop new strategies for autoimmune therapy and for the prevention of infections caused by viruses and pathogenic organisms, as well as tumors. The problems arising from the interaction between pathogenic agents and the immune system are examined in vitro using genetically defined mice strings including "Knock-out mice" and clinical material.Within the framework of the analysis of molecular and cellular mechanisms during autoreactivity, the interface between antigen contact caused by infections, and autoreactivity is being studied by means of clinical or clinically relevant model situations. In this context, the center of interest is the study of viral and bacterial antigens in their initial phase.
DFG Programme Collaborative Research Centres

Completed projects

Applicant Institution shared FU Berlin and HU Berlin through:
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
 
 

Additional Information

Textvergrößerung und Kontrastanpassung