Institute of Medical Immunology of the Charité Berlin - Research for an improved diagnosis and therapy of immunological diseases

The Institute of Medical Immunology (IMI) bridges the gap between basic research and clinical research.
The process of taking knowledge from basic scientific findings and applying it to clinical research, with the long-term aim of improving health, is commonly referred to as translational research and contributes to the faster translation into clinical practice. Patients at the institute´s Immunodeficiency Outpatient Clinic benefit directly from this translational research. Every year, more than 1,000 adult patients with suspected immune dysfunctions (immunodeficiencies), susceptibility to infection or chronic fatigue syndrome are cared for in this special out-patient department.

The main objective of the institute is to develop new insights into pathogenesis of immune diseases and to improve diagnostics and therapies. Immunodiagnostics takes place in the department of Immunology at Labor Berlin. Every year several thousand immune statuses from inpatients and outpatients from the Charité, Vivantes and other large German hospitals are collected here.