Lung Research Center of the Leibniz Association
Research Center Borstel
The Research Center Borstel is the lung research center of the Leibniz Association. It researches diseases associated with civilization such as asthma and COPD as well as infections of the lungs, especially tuberculosis (TB). The overarching goal of the interdisciplinary and translational research activities is to elucidate the causes and mechanisms of infectious and non-infectious, chronic inflammatory diseases of the lung in order to derive new innovative concepts for their prevention, diagnosis and treatment.
