Broegelmann Research Laboratory
BRL is an immunology research unit with a focus on autoimmunity, tumourimmunology and mucosal immunobiology at the University of Bergen and Haukeland University Hospital.
The Laboratory was initiated in 1957 after a donation to the University of Bergen and is co-localized and integrated with the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, the Gade Institute. Internationally the unit is one of the leading groups on Experimental, Clinical and Genetic Studies of Sjögren´s syndrome. A broad repertoire of molecular and cellular methods in immunology and molecular biology has been established.
The core financial support comes from the Broegelmann Foundation. Other major funding agencies have been EU (six contracts, five as coordinator), the Research Council of Norway (“miljøstøtte” and GLOBVAC), the Foundation Health and Rehabilitation, the Cancer Foundation and Bergen Forskningsstiftelse. Between 1962 and 2009 BRL has contributed to the finalization of >60 PhD/doctoral and 14 Master degrees. BFL has been the organizer of three international immunology meetings in Bergen 1997, 2001 and 2002. Since 1999 the unit is the main Editorial office for Scandinavian Journal of Immunology with Prof R. Jonsson as Editor-in-Chief.
Senior scientist Silke Appel leads the dendritic cell research group at Broegelmann. Click here for more information about the group.
Sist endret: 21.4.2010