Freie Universität Berlin
School of Veterinary Medicine
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Research group Prof. Gruber
Research focus
- Basic research into the CLCA gene family
- Research into diseases of domestic and farm animals
- Experimental pathology of models
- COVID-19 in the hamster model
- Mechanisms of innate immunity in the early defense against infectious pathogens in the lung
- Testing of novel nanocarriers in the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases
- Collaborative Research Center / Transregio SFB/TR-84 www.sfb-tr84.de “Innate Immunity of the Lung: Mechanisms of Pathogen Attack and Host Defence in Pneumonia“
- Einstein Center 3R for research into alternative methods to animal experiments
- DFG individual grant Gr1491/6-1 “Epidemiology, host spectrum and diagnostics of a new sarcocyte species in pigeons” in cooperation with Prof. Dr. M. Lierz (Clinic for Birds, Reptiles, Amphibians and Fish at Justus Liebig University Giessen)
Research group Prof. Klopfleisch
Research focus
- Molecular oncology of various tumor types including circulating tumor cells as biomarkers
- Foreign body reaction
- Age-associated diseases of domestic animals
- Digital pathology
- Collaborative projects in the field of morphological and immunohistological characterization of virological, bacteriological, toxicological and genetic mouse, rat and avian egg skin models
- DFG Individual Grants DFG KL 2240/1 “Malignancy-associated protein expression patterns of simple adenocarcinomas of the canine mammary gland”
Research group PD Dr. Mundhenk
Research focus
- Biomedical relevance of mucus proteins in equine asthma
- Biomarkers for equine asthma
- Neurotropic viruses in “dead-end hosts”
- DFG Individual Grants DFG MU 3015/3-1 “Chloride Channel Regulators, Calcium Activated (CLCA) Proteins in Equine Asthma - Mechanistic Relevance as Immunomodulators and Potential Mucus Biomarkers?”
- Program to promote the validation of research results in Berlin universities (ProValid) IBB VAL150/2023 “EA-Biomarker”
- Emmy Noether Junior Research Group for research into severe asthma in horses, Dr. Christiane Schnabel, Institute of Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Leipzig University
- Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Dr. Zoltán Konthur
- Technical University of Munich, Prof. Dr. Nikolai Klymiuk
- Friedrich Loeffler Institute, PD. Dr. Dennis Rubbenstroth, PhD
- Equine Clinic, FU Berlin, Prof. Dr. Heidrun Gehlen
